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| The Spout Force car park below Darling How Farm is the starting point for this walk |
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| Graystones from the forestry road |
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| Walking along the main forestry road into the Aiken Beck Valley |
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| Looking back along the road to the locked barrier at the end of the car park |
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| Broom Fell from the forest road above Aiken Beck |
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| Lord's Seat at the head of the Aiken Beck Valley |
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| Looking back towards Graystones from the forestry road |
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| Almost one mile from the car park a waymarker post indicates the route, straight ahead at a crossroads |
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| Looking back to Widow Hause from the crossroads |
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| Tarbarrel Moss at the head of the valley |
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| Following the road as it descends to a bridge over Aiken Beck |
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| Passing a large area of cleared forest as the road begins to climb towards the head of the valley |
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| Two miles from the car park the forest road reaches the head of the valley where a waymark post indicates the start of a path through the forest |
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| Looking back from the waymark post, Hopegill Head appears on the horizon |
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| The path climbs directly through a break in the tall trees to reach the broad heather-clad ridge between Lord's Seat and Ullister Hill |
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| After a 400ft climb the path emerges onto the ridge, it is a bit boggy on this section which is best avoided to the left of the path |
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| Looking back Grisedale Pike appears over the top of the trees |
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| In a few yards the main path along the ridge is reached and followed left towards the summit of Lord's Seat |
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| This well graded path is part of the more popular waymarked route which starts from the summit of Whinlatter Pass |
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| Looking back to Skiddaw |
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| The summit of Lord's Seat comes into view |
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| Looking back, Clough Head and the Helvellyn Dodds appear over Ullister Hill |
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| Looking over to the summit of Broom Fell |
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| Grisedale Pike and Hopegill Head over the summit ridge of Whinlatter |
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| The graded path ends at a stile in the forest fence |
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| Looking down to the Aiken Beck Valley |
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| The well worn path to the summit from the stile |
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| The summit of Lord's Seat, marked by a solitary iron fence post and a meagre cairn |
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| Looking south-west from the summit of Lord's Seat over the ridges of Whinlatter and Swinside. Gavel Fell and Blake Fell on the centre skyline with Whiteside on the left, Low Fell and Fellbarrow on the right |
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| Looking down to the valley of Aiken Beck with Graystones on the right |
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| Sale Fell and Lowthwaite across the Wythop Valley |
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| Binsey across Bassenthwaite Lake |
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| Looking north-east to the Uldale Fells of Little Sca Fell, Meal Fell, Brae Fell, Great Cockup and Longlands Fell |
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| The Skiddaw group and Blencathra with the summit of Barf in the foreground |
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| Latrigg in the centre of the photo with Clough Head and Great Dodd on the right-hand skyline |
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| Looking south-east to the Helvellyn range |
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| Looking south, Causey Pike in the centre of the photograph |
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| Grisedale Pike and Hopegill Head |
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| The grassy knoll a few yards to the north-east of the summit affords a better view of Bassenthwaite Lake |
