Access is via the B5289 from Cockermouth and there are plenty of secret spots that locals enjoy. Returning to the car park you can simply walk back along the track or explore a little further, as we did. Grasmoor from Crummock Water March 8, 2018. It’s a good obvious path for the main but does have boggy sections.

The Walk. If you are going up (and it’s worth the view) you will see a steep wide grassy path going straight up just before you hit the gravel path take this to the top if your bagging fells. If you are Wainwright Bagging you can use this walk to bag Mellbreak. A good wide track if a little rough is beyond, follow it. Keep to this path until you see a gate just after the farm house on your left. Go through the gate and keep heading straight you are heading back towards the base of the mountain now and the path follows the valley bottom.

Depending on the type of pushchair you have, it may be possible to remove your back wheels, reducing the width of the pushchair, and carrying it over with one person at the front and one person at the back. After a couple of hundred metres you will then come to a crossroads.

This walk is 8.5 miles but on the whole not too taxing or too much climbing, 4 or so hours at an abmbling pace. The view from the beach is down the water, Rannerdale Knotts is the small pyramid fell slightly isolated from the rest.

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Across the water are the dark crags of Mellbreak, one people either find formidable or exciting! To add your walk photographs and pictures to this walk, please send them as email attachments (configured for any computer) along with your name to:

Maps contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2011 and paths © OpenStreetMap Contributors,CC-BY-SA, 2011, Inevitably things change on the ground so if you think this walk needs updating please, Buy walk in Adobe/PDF format to print or for your phone or tablet, Gavel Fell and Blake Fell from Maggie's Bridge, Loweswater, Fellbarrow from Thackthwaite, Lorton Vale, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. No stiles, but there are three very narrow footbridges with steps to cross.

Follow this track along the lakeside to the end of the lake. At the opposite end of the car park to the entrance, there is a gate that marks the start of the walk. Park at the National Trust car park at Lanthwaite Wood on the side of Scale Hill, between Lorton and Loweswater. Home > Walks > Grasmoor from Crummock Water. Distance: 2 miles (or 1 mile if turning back at the lake shore). Grid ref NY 149 215. Take the right hand fork to continue down to the lake. If you are at the alternative car park turn back on yourself along the road past the farm house and through the gate.

This is a tough mountain though, it involves going up and re-tracing your steps down unless you are very confident on scree, sheep paths, and a fair scramble at certain points. Once you’ve seen the falls head back to the footbridge where the path forks. Hill data is derived from Database of British and Irish hills which is licensed under a

Crummock Water is also a quieter walk away from the crowds even in the height of the summer season. Walk up Mellbreak and Crummock Water Details.

From the lakeshore, take a path uphill in an easterly direction.

Keep right at junctions all the way to the little beach on the shore of Crummock Water.

The work we do on this web site, both researching and writing up walks, takes a lot of our time but doesn't make us a great deal of money. There is a bench here and a number of boulders that make for great picnic spots, as well as plenty of stones for skimming. Follow the track, now gradually petering to a wide path, again keeping right, to the boathouse and another small beach.

After the second fork in the path, you will come to the shore of Crummock Water. With the sun behind them they look dark, dramatic and imposing. To the right are the Loweswater group of fells. All-terrain pushchair users will be able to do most of this walk with ease, however, there are three very narrow bridges to cross that will require you to remove your baby and carry the collapsed pushchair across. Crummock Water and Low Ling Crag This walk takes you to the top of the following hills: Scale Knott , Mellbreak , and Mellbreak North Top ; and includes 1 Wainwright , 3 Birketts , 1 Marilyn , 2 Dodds , 2 Deweys , and 1 HuMP . This will take you past the weir and to the first of two narrow bridges, both with steps leading on and off them. After a short distance you will reach a fork in the road.

Go through this gate, turn right, and follow the path over the small hill and down to the lake.

Terrain: Level, well-maintained paths throughout.

The main way we fund this work is by selling our walks as PDFs for printing. Scale Hill and Crummock Water Loop Lanthwaite Woods Crummock Water is often overlooked in favour of its smaller neighbour, Buttermere, partly because it is further away from the facilities available in the village of Buttermere, and partly because it is a much larger lake, making parts of its shore inaccessible to beginner walkers. At the path junction just above the boathouse turn sharp right onto the upper pathway. This boggy path continues until you meet a gravel path that takes you the rest of the way back. Grasmoor from Crummock Water is an unusual way to approach the mountain. These bridges are too narrow for all-terrain pushchairs. Crummock Water Crummock Water Length – 4.0km / Max Width – 0.85km This long lake is often ignored by visitors in favour of its smaller neighbour, Buttermere, and as such it offers a quieter alternative for a lakeside picnic and paddle if you are willing to walk a short distance.

It is a steep pull but the route makes best use of the finest features of the Grasmoor round, the western ridges. Keep right at junctions all the way to the little beach on the shore of Crummock Water.

Crummock Water is often overlooked in favour of its smaller neighbour, Buttermere, partly because it is further away from the facilities available in the village of Buttermere, and partly because it is a much larger lake, making parts of its shore inaccessible to beginner walkers.

Follow the path left over 2 small bridges and keep along the side of the lake over a third bridge and passing the water pumping station—this provides the water for Cockermouth.

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Once there turn right towards Cockermouth, then take the left hand turn signposted Buttermere and Lorton. How many times have you driven along the road from Lorton to Loweswater past Scale Hill and this little woodland amongst the lush green fields of the vale on the way to the fells, yet have never stopped to explore? The first mile or so after the falls is boggy you follow a small stream before turning right straight up to a stile and gate. You will be able to see a bridge and a gate in the distance and you should aim for this bridge. Please use the "Buy walk in Adobe/PDF format to print or for your phone or tablet" link on the walk page to do that. Cross this bridge and continue along the path and the pump house will eventually come into view.

This is my favourite start point but dose miss out the little boat house and Mellbreak View but it is a larger car park than the free yet busy parking at Langthwaite Green Farm on the B5289 towards Buttermere.