Tottlebank Height - Route One


 

Start - Water Yeat SD 287 892 Distance - 1.7 miles Ascent - 650 feet Time - 1 hour


 


 
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 from the road to Greenholme Farm
Approaching Greenholme Farm
The metalled road ends at Greenholme Farm
An old Bamford finger mower
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 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 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 on the left
Wool Knott from the 'crossroad'
Looking back from the 'crossroad'
The start of the path over Round Haw to 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
Red Screes, Caudale Moor and High Street appear on the distant horizon between the slopes of Beacon Fell abd Spy Hill
The clear path on Round Haw avoids the summit of Tottlebank Height
Looking over Woodland Fell to the Coniston Fells
Looking back over Blawith Common
Leave the main path where it turns to the south west and begins to level out and climb directly to the summit of Tottlebank Height 
Looking back from the climb to Tottlebank Height
The summit cairn comes into view
The summit of Tottlebank Height
The summit cairn on Tottlebank Height
Top o' Selside and Arnsbarrow Hill from the summit of Tottlebank Height
The Crake Valley from the summit of Tottlebank Height 
Kirkby Moor and Burney from the summit of Tottlebank Height
The Duddon Estuary from the summit of Tottlebank Height
Blawith Knott from the summit of Tottlebank Height
A long line of Wainwright's Outlying Fells form the horizon, Kinmont Buck Barrow, Buck Barrow, Burn Moor, Whit Fell, Stainton Pike, Yoadcastle, Hesk Fell, Stickle Pike and Raven's Crag
Caw, Pikes and Harter Fell from the summit of Tottlebank Height
The Coniston Fells from the summit of Tottlebank Height
Wetherlam, Whiteside, Helvellyn, Nethermost Pike, Dollywaggon Pike, Fairfield,Hart Crag, Dove Crag, Little Hart Crag, Red Screes, Caudale Moor, High Street, Froswick, Ill Bell and Harter Fell on the horzon


 
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