Blawith Knott - Route Two

 

Start - Water Yeat SD 287 892 Distance - 2.25 miles Ascent - 740 feet Time - 1hour ~15 minutes

 

 

The walk starts from a small parking area on the minor road 160 yards west of Water Yeat
The minor road leads to Greenholme Farm which is about a third of a mile from Water Yeat
Tottlebank Height and Blawith Knott from the road to Greenholme Farm
Approaching Greenholme Farm
The metalled road ends at Greenholme Farm
The footpath to Beacon Tarn continues on beyond the farm
The footpath leads onto a walled lane alongside Yew Barrow Wood
The walled lane beside Yew Barrow Wood
The lane is quite short and leads to the shallow valley of Tarn Beck
The path to Beacon Tarn above Yew Barrow Wood
Looking back to Yew Barrow Wood from the Beacon Tarn path
We only follow the Beacon Tarn path for 50 yards or so before turning off it onto an indistinct path which crosses Tarn Beck and passes through a small grove of willow trees
The path then rises gently alongside a conifer plantation before descending a more open slope towards Greenholme Beck 
Looking back to Slatestone Fell above the willow grove from the edge of the conifer plantation 
Tottlebank Height and Blawith Knott from the descent to Greenholme Beck where the path will join the Cumbria Way
Looking over to the south ridge of Wool Knott
Looking back to the conifer plantation
We join the Cumbria Way just above the point where it crosses Cockenskell Bridge over Greenholme Beck
Looking back along the Cumbria Way path as it rises towards Beacon Tarn
The tiny Cockenskell Bridge almost hidden by foliage
Passing though the pasture fields of Cockenskell Farm
Tottlebank Height from the Cumbria Way
Looking back to Wool Knott from the Cumbria Way
We leave the Cumbria Way when it passes through a gate
We turn right from the gate onto the path to Woodland
We follow the Woodland path for a quarter of a mile to a 'crossroad' of paths which lies just beyond the solitary tree ahead
Wool Knott from the 'crossroad'
Looking back from the 'crossroad
The start of the path over Round Haw towards Tottlebank Height
Looking over to Caw and Pikes from the path on Round Haw
Top o' Selside and Arnsbarrow Hill from the path on Round Haw
Looking back towards Wool Knott
The clear path on Round Haw avoids the summit of Tottlebank Height
Looking back over Blawith Common
The path contours below the summit of Tottlebank Height and continues along the ridge towards Blawith Knott
Looking back to Wool Knott and Beacon Fell
The Coniston Fells
 The path climbs over a rocky section of the ridge
Looking across to Burney
Looking back to Tottlebank Height
An un-named tarn lies beyond the rocky section of the ridge
Blawith Knott comes into view on passing the tarn where the path descends to a col
Looking back to the tarn
From the col there is a choice of paths leading up to the summit 
Looking back from the col, the Fairfield group of fells on the far horizon
We take the right-hand path which is more direct
Looking back to Tottlebank Height from the climb to the summit
 The Eastern and Far Eastern Fells on the horizon
The Coniston Fells from the climb to the summit
Caw from the climb to the summit
 Approaching the summit of Blawith Knott
 The summit of Blawith Knott
 The summit cairn on Blawith Knott
Top o' Selside and Arnsbarrow Hill from the summit of Blawith Knott
The Crake Valley from the summit of Blawith Knott
Burney and Kirkby Moor from the summit of Blawith Knott
The Duddon Estuary from the summit of Blawith Knott
Black Combe from the summit of Blawith Knott
Kinmont Buck Barrow, Buck Barrow, Burnmoor, Whitfell, Stainton Pike, Yoadcastle, Woodend Height and Stickle Pike on the horizon from the summit of Blawith Knott
Caw and the Scafells from the summit of Blawith Knott
The Coniston Fells from the summit of Blawith Knott
Hevellyn, Dollywaggon Pike, Fairfield, Hart Crag, Dove Crag, Red Screes, Caudale Moor, Thornthwaite Crag, Ill Bell, Harter Fell, Kentmere Pike, and Tarn Crag on the horizon from the summit of Blawith Knott

 

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