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Parking Details and Map

Nearest Post Code:	LA22 9RF
Grid Reference:	Layby A591 North of Grasmere - A591 Central Grasmere NY 337 408 & NY 341 079

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Walks starting from this parking place

Silver How & Loughrigg Fell from Grasmere

		4th April 2026
ASCENT:		2,340 Feet - 713 Metres
MILES:		10.1
WAINWRIGHTS:		2, Silver How - Loughrigg Fell
ROUTE:		Lay-by A591 - Stock Lane - Red Bank Road - Kelbarrow - Silver How - Spedding Crag - Dow Bank - Traverse Path Below Huntingstile Crag - High Close YHA - Footpath by Intake Wood - Loughrigg Fell - Black Mire - Loughrigg Brow - Miller Bridge - River Rothay - Pelter Bridge - Coat How - Rydal Water - White Moss Common Woods - Footbridge over River Rothay - Penny Rock Woods - Grasmere Lake Weir - Daffodil Hotel - Lay-by A591

Fairfield from Grasmere

		21st September 2025
ASCENT:		2,694 Feet - 821 Metres
MILES:		6.2
WAINWRIGHTS:		3, Stone Arthur - Great Rigg - Fairfield
AVERAGE PACE:		A591 - Greenhead Gill - Stone Arthur - Great Rigg - Fairfield - Grisedale Hause - Hause Gap - Hause Moss - Tongue Gill - A591

Silver How & Lingmoor Fell from Grasmere

		26th July 2025
ASCENT:		3,067 Feet - 934 Metres
MILES:		10.5
WAINWRIGHTS:		2, Silver How - Lingmoor Fell
ROUTE:		Layby A591, Grasmere - Broadgate - Red Bank - Allan Bank - Wray Gill - Silver How - Megs Gill - Great Langdale Beck - Cumbrian Way - Oak Howe - Side House - Side Pike - Lingmoor Fell - Slate Track (Dissued) - Baysbrown Woods - Burlington Slate Quarry - Cumbrian Way - Elterwater

Fairfield from Grasmere

		28th September 2024
ASCENT:		2,694 Feet - 821 Metres
MILES:		6.2
WAINWRIGHTS:		3, Stone Arthur - Great Rigg - Fairfield
AVERAGE PACE:		A591 - Greenhead Gill - Stone Arthur - Great Rigg - Fairfield - Grisedale Hause - Hause Gap - Hause Moss - Tongue Gill - A591

Boxing Day on Fairfield

		26th December 2023
ASCENT:		2,694 Feet - 821 Metres
MILES:		6.2
WAINWRIGHTS:		3, Stone Arthur - Great Rigg - Fairfield
AVERAGE PACE:		A591 - Greenhead Gill - Stone Arthur - Great Rigg - Fairfield - Grisedale Hause - Hause Gap - Hause Moss - Tongue Gill - A591

Greenburn Horseshoe

		7th November 2023
ASCENT:		2,277 Feet - 694 Metres
MILES:		8.1
WAINWRIGHTS:		4, Helm Crag - Gibson Knott - Calf Crag - Steel Fell (Dead Pike)
ROUTE:		A591 - Grasmere - Easdale Road - Lancrigg - White Crag - Helm Crag - Bracken Hause - Gibson Knott - Pike of Carrs - Calf Crag - Steel Fell Tarn - Steel Fell - Cotra Breast - Ghyll Foot - Underhelm - A591

Blea Rigg to Tarn Crag from Grasmere

		29th July 2023
ASCENT:		2,428 Feet - 740 Metres
MILES:		9.2
WAINWRIGHTS:		3, Blea Rigg - Sergeant Man - Tarn Crag (Easedale)
ROUTE:		A591 - Butharlyp How - Easedale Road - Goody Bridge - New Bridge - Easedale Tarn - Blea Rigg - Sergeant Man - Codale Head - Tarn Crag (Easedale) - Tarn Crag East Ridge - Far Easedale - New Bridge - Goody Bridge - Butharlyp How - A591

Fairfield & Seat Sandal from Grasmere

		17th June 2023
ASCENT:		3,176 Feet - 968 Metres
MILES:		6.2
WAINWRIGHTS:		4, Stone Arthur - Great Rigg - Fairfield - Seat Sandal
AVERAGE PACE:		A591 - Greenhead Gill - Stone Arthur - Great Rigg - Fairfield - Grisedale Hause - Seat Sandal - Seat Sandal South Ridge - Tongue Gill - Mill Bridge - A591

Fairfield & Seat Sandal from Grasmere

		2nd October 2022
ASCENT:		3,176 Feet - 968 Metres
MILES:		6.2
WAINWRIGHTS:		4, Stone Arthur - Great Rigg - Fairfield - Seat Sandal
ROUTE:		A591 - Greenhead Gill - Stone Arthur - Great Rigg - Fairfield - Grisedale Hause - Seat Sandal - Seat Sandal South Ridge - Tongue Gill - Mill Bridge - A591

Silver How, Grasmere, Rydal Lake & the Rydal Coffin Route

		29th January 2022
ASCENT:		1,777 Feet - 542 Metres
MILES:		8.6
WAINWRIGHTS:		Silver How (no summit)
ROUTE:		A591 - Broadgate - Grasmere - Kelbarrow - Silver How - Wyke Plantation - Grasmere Lake - Rydal Water - Rydal - Rydal Coffin Route - Town End - Grasmere - Broadgate - A591

Easedale Tarn, Easedale & Helm Crag

		23rd October 2021
ASCENT:		1,648 Feet - 502 Metres
MILES:		6
WAINWRIGHTS:		Helm Crag
ROUTE:		A591 - Grasmere - Easedale Road - Goody Bridge - Easedale Beck - Sourmilk Gill - Easedale Tarn - Easedale - Stythwaite Steps - Bracken Hause - Helm Crag - Helmside - A591

Fairfield & Seat Sandal from Grasmere

		10th October 2021
ASCENT:		3,176 Feet - 968 Metres
MILES:		6.2
WAINWRIGHTS:		4, Stone Arthur - Great Rigg - Fairfield - Seat Sandal
ROUTE:		A591 - Greenhead Gill - Stone Arthur - Great Rigg - Fairfield - Grisedale Hause - Seat Sandal - Seat Sandal South Ridge - Tongue Gill - Mill Bridge - A591

Almost Fairfield from Grasmere

		10th October 2020
ASCENT:		2,947 Feet - 899 Metres
MILES:		6.5
WAINWRIGHTS:		2, Stone Arthur - Great Rigg
ROUTE:		A591 - Michael's Nook - Greenhead Gill - Stone Arthur - Great Rigg - Fairfield (almost) - Great Rigg - Grains Gill - Rowantree Gill - Alcock Tarn - Michael's Nook - A591

Walking the Birketts, Tarn Crag East Ridge to Sergeant Man

		7th October 2018
ASCENT:		2,165 Feet - 660 Metres
MILES:		7.5
BIRKETTS:		3, Tarn Crag - Codale Head - Sergeant Man
ROUTE:		A591 - Grasmere - Easedale Road - Goody Bridge - Sourmilk Gill - Tarn Crag East Ridge - Tarn Crag - Codale Head - Easedale Tarn - Sourmilk Gill - Easedale Road - Grasmere - A591

Walking the Birketts, Helm Crag to Steel Fell Horseshoe

		24th June 2018
ASCENT:		2,277 Feet - 694 Metres
MILES:		8.1
BIRKETTS:		4, Helm Crag - Gibson Knott - Calf Crag - Dead Pike (Steel Fell)
ROUTE:		A591 - Grasmere - Easdale Road - Lancrigg - White Crag - Helm Crag - Bracken Hause - Gibson Knott - Pike of Carrs - Calf Crag - Steel Fell Tarn - Steel Fell - Cotra Breast - Ghyll Foot - Underhelm - A591

Fairfield from Grasmere

		13th January 2018
ASCENT:		2,906 Feet - 886 Metres
MILES:		6.5
WAINWRIGHTS:		3, Stone Arthur - Great Rigg - Fairfield
ROUTE:		A591 - Greenhead Gill - Stone Arthur - Great Rigg - Fairfield - Hause Gap - Tongue Gill - Mill Bridge - A591

Fairfield via Rydal Head

		28th May 2017
ASCENT:		3,763 Feet - 1,146Metres
MILES:		10.3
WAINWRIGHTS:		2, Fairfield - Seat Sandal
ROUTE:		A591 - Grasmere - Rydal Coffin Route - Rydal - Rydal Valley - Rydal Beck - Rydal Head - Link Hause - Fairfield - Grisedale Hause - Seat Sandal - Seat Sandal South Ridge - Mill Bridge - A591

Walking the Wainwrights in 30 Walks - Walk 1 A Greenburn Skyline

		16th January 2016
ASCENT:		3,150 Feet - 961 Meters
MILES:		11.2
WAINWRIGHTS:		5, Helm Crag - Gibson Knott - Calf Crag - Sergeant Man - Steel Fell
ROUTE:		A591 - Butharlyp Howe - Easedale Road - Helm Crag - Gibson Knott - Calf Crag - Brownrigg Moss - Broadstone Head - Sergeant Man - Broadstone Head - Brownrigg Moss - Steel Fell Tarn - Steel Fell - Cotra Breast - Helm Side - Low Mill Bridge - Goody Bridge - Grasmere - A591

Fairfield to Nab Scar via Little Tongue Gill

		16th February 2014
ASCENT:		2,683 Feet, 818 Meters
MILES:		7.8
WAINWRIGHTS:		4, Fairfield – Great Rigg – Heron Pike – Nab Scar
ROUTE:		A591 – Mill Bridge – Little Tongue Gill – Hause Riggs – Hause Moss – Grisedale Hause – Fairfield – Great Rigg – Heron Pike – Nab Scar – Alcock Tarn – Forest Side Plantation – Michaels Nook – A591 – Mill Bridge

Making the most of it, Stone Arthur to Elterwater

		21st September 2013
ASCENT:		3,097 Feet, 944 Meters
MILES:		13.5
WAINWRIGHTS:		4, Stone Arthur – Great Rigg – Heron Pike – Nab Scar
ROUTE:		A591 – Stone Arthur – Great Rigg – Heron Pike – Nab Scar – Rydal – Rydal Church – Rydal Water – Loughrigg Terrace – Loughrigg Tarn – Skelwith Bridge – Skelwith Force – Elterwater – Walthwaite Bottom – Hammerscar Plantation – Grasmere – A591

Fairfield

		17th January 2009
ASCENT:		873 Mtrs 2863 ft
MILES:		xxx
WAINWRIGHTS:		3 Stone Arthur,Great Rigg,Fairfield
ROUTE:		xxxx