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| The small National Trust car park at Park Brow is the starting point for this walk |
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| Directly opposite the entrance to the car park a stile gives access to a path through Glencoyne Park |
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| The path passes through mixed woodland with occasional views over to Ullswater and the surrounding fells |
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| The path, once very overgrown and neglected, has become more popular in recent years |
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| Looking back towards Gowbarrow Fell |
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| Ullswater from Glencoyne Park |
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| The path fords a number of shallow gills as it climbs towards Brown Hills and Swineside Knott, seen here on the skyline |
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| Looking back across Ullswater to Arthur's Pike and Bonscale Pike |
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| The head of Ullswater from Glencoyne Park |
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| The lower reaches of Ullswater from Glencoyne Park |
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| Looking down to Glencoyne Farm |
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| In a little over one mile from the car park the path reaches a stile and enters a small plantation of mature beech trees |
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| Looking over to St. Sunday Crag from the beech wood |
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| Above the beech wood the path begins the steep ascent of Glencoyne Brow passing a line of windswept larches on the way |
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| Looking back to Ullswater from Glencoyne Brow |
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| The head of Ullswater from Glencoyne Brow |
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| Gowbarrow Fell from Glencoyne Brow |
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| Above the larch trees the slope eases as the path reaches the top of Glencoyne Brow |
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| The head of Ullswater and Patterdale from the top of Glencoyne Brow |
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| The path crosses the Glencoyne Park boundary wall to join the miners' path which starts from Dockray |
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| Looking back along the Glencoyne Park boundary wall. Swineside Knott on the left is a fine viewpoint for Ullswater |
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| The wall is only followed for a short distance before the path breaks away to traverse below Brown Hills |
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| St. Sunday Crag across Sheffield Pike from the path below Brown Hills |
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| Hart Side comes into view with Glencoyne Head and White Stones on the left |
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| Helvellyn Lower Man and Raise above the depression of Nick Head from the path over Brown Hills |
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| Looking down the slopes of Brown Hills to Place Fell above Ullswater |
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| Eventually the path meets a stile in a newly restored wall |
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| The main path continues on across Glencoyne Head, the ascent path follows the wall as it rises steeply over the south-western slopes of Birkett Fell |
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| Looking back from the start of the climb alongside the wall |
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| At the top of the first steep rise another stile is passed where the path coming up from Dowthwaitehead meets the wall |
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| Looking over Nick Head to Catstycam and Helvellyn |
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| The wall is followed to its highest point on the ridge |
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| Looking back to the Far Eastern Fells |
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| Looking over the wall to Great Mell Fell and Little Mell Fell |
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| Ullswater over Common Fell and Swineside Knott |
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| Near the highest point of the wall the cairn on Birkett Fell comes into view |
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| The memorial cairn commemorates Lord Birkett of Ulverston who, in the 1960's, successfully resisted proposals to make Ullswater into a reservoir |
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| Ullswater from the memorial cairn on Birkett Fell |
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| The summit of Hart Side lies to the west of the cairn on Birkett Fell |
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| A few yards to the south of the highest point on Hart Side is a long trench which is believed to be a trial working for the Greenside Mine |
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| Stybarrow Dodd from the summit of Hart Side |
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| Great Dodd from the summit of Hart Side |
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| Skiddaw and Blencathra |
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| Great Mell Fell and Little Mell Fell from the summit of Hart Side |
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| Only two small sections of Ullswater are visible from the summit |
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| The summit of Place Fell is visible over the summit of Birkett Fell with a long line of Far Eastern Fells from Loadpot Hill to Thornthwaite Crag |
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| High Street, Thornthwaite Crag, Caudale Moor and Red Screes on the horizon |
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| Catstycam, Helvellyn and Raise over the summit of White Stones |
