Wasdale Horseshoe

Yarlside Crag on Great Yarlside

The Wasdale Horseshoe is a group of hills on the eastern fringe of the English Lake District, to the west of the A6, south of Shap, Cumbria. They surround the valley of Wasdale Beck, a tributary of Birk Beck and ultimately of the River Lune. The horseshoe is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.^[1] This Wasdale should not be confused with the better known Wasdale, containing Wast Water, on the west of the Lake District.

Wainwright's clockwise walk starts from the highest point of the A6 at 1,400 feet (430 m). The summits reached are Whatshaw Common at 1,593 feet (486 m), Little Yarlside at 1,691 feet (515 m), Great Yarlside (the third highest of the Outlying Fells) at 1,986 feet (605 m) and Wasdale Pike at 1,852 feet (564 m).

References

↑ Wainwright, A. (1974). "The Wasdale Horseshoe". The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. Kendal: Westmorland Gazette. pp. 248–253.

Coordinates: 54°27′56″N 2°42′08″W / 54.46556°N 2.70222°W / 54.46556; -2.70222

Wainwright's The Outlying Fells of Lakeland

Chapters named for single summits	Beacon Fell Bigland Barrow Black Combe Blawith Knott Boat How Brant Fell Burney Caermote Hill Carron Crag Cartmel Fell Caw Claife Heights Clints Crags Cold Fell Dunmallet Dunnerdale Fells Faulds Brow Finsthwaite Heights Hampsfell Great Worm Crag Green Quarter Fell Gummer's How Hesk Fell Heughscar Hill High Knott Howes Hugill Fell Humphrey Head Irton Pike Knipescar Common Latterbarrow Muncaster Fell Newton Fell Orrest Head Ponsonby Fell Potter Fell Reston Scar School Knott Scout Scar Seat Robert Stainton Pike Staveley Fell Stickle Pike Top o'Selside Walna Scar Watch Hill Whitbarrow Whit Fell Woodland Fell

Chapters named for circuits, groups and horseshoes	Bannisdale Horseshoe Crookdale Horseshoe Devoke Water, Circuit of Flat Fell and Dent Naddle Horseshoe Wasdale Horseshoe Wet Sleddale Horseshoe

Full list of Wainwrights by area

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