Pictures from a week in the small Cumbrian town of Sedbergh.

Walk from Sedbergh, first heading south to the River Rawthey and then heading north towards the River Lune. (Top left) The oddly named Lincoln’s Inn Bridge across the Lune. Thought to date from the 17th C, it is sufficiently robust to still handle a major road! (Top right) and (bottom left) heading north along the banks of the Line and (bottom right) heading under the Waterside viaduct. This carried a branch line of the Lancaster and Carlisle railway to Ingleton, which had a station just outside Sedbergh and just next to the holiday cottage.

Flower detail. Probably Lapsana Communis (common nipplewort).
From a walk on a “soft” weather day in Grisedale from Garsdale Station. As told in
the Barry Cockcroft documentary “The Dale That Died”, all but one of the farms of Grisedale were abandoned by the mid 20th C due to the harsh conditions, as the ruins of Round Ing (bottom) illustrate. The footpaths were seemed similarly abandoned.
Walk starting from Beck Foot. (Top left) view back towards the Lowgill viaduct (on the same line as the Waterside viaduct above). (Top right) Splendid views across to the Howgill Fells from a deserted minor road heading south. The return followed the east bank of the Lune (bottom).
The “Mushroom” shelter and viewpoint on Scout Scar, above Kendal.
The weather was good enough on the final full day to do a proper walk in Howgill Fells: a linear walk from the Cross Keys at Cautley back to Sedbergh via a stiff climb up Cautley Spout followed by gentler ridge walking talking in The Calf (high point on the fells) and (here) Calders. It turned out that we had done pretty much the same walk 13 years before, except that time as a circular walk from Sedbergh!

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