The Monday Yorkshire Dales Walk: Baugh Fell

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Overview

These six walks through the Yorkshire Dales and surrounding hills offer a memorable blend of scenery, challenge, and tranquillity. Each route reveals sweeping green valleys, drystone walls threading across the landscape, and horizons that seem to stretch without limit, all accompanied by the distinctive call of the curlew. Some climbs are rocky, rugged, or boggy, but every ascent is rewarded with wide-open skies, a sense of deep solitude, and the satisfaction of standing atop some of England’s most celebrated peaks

Monday, 13 April 2026

Meeting time:: 8:15 am
Start time:: 9:00 am
Estimated finish time:: 4:00 pm

Difficulty:: Strenuous
Distance:: 20.9km / 13.0mi
Ascent:: 762m / 2500ft
Type:: circular

Great Coum (2,254 ft) & Gragareth (2,057 ft): A ridge walk with cairns and wide views to the Lakes and Dales.
Baugh Fell (2,224 ft): A quiet plateau with hidden tarns and a strong sense of remoteness.
Great Knoutberry (2,205 ft) & Dodd Fell (2,192 ft): Overlooking Dentdale and Wensleydale, peaceful and little‑visited.
Whernside (2,415 ft, from Dentdale): The Dales’ highest summit, reached by a quieter valley route with sweeping views.
Great Shunner Fell (2,349 ft) & Lovely Seat (2,198 ft): Windswept Pennine heights, one on the Way, the other more solitary.
Rogan’s Seat (2,205 ft) & Water Crag (2,191 ft): Moorland summits above Swaledale, vast horizons and a feeling of wilderness.

The complete list of dates for this series of walks is as follows:

• 30 March
• 13 April
• 11 May
• 8 June
• 13 July
• 10 August
• 21 September

And yes, I do realise that’s seven dates and only six walks planned so far — consider the extra one a bonus

Features

Accessible by public transport
Car parking available
Car sharing available

Meeting point

Grid reference:: NY 52702 29579
Nearest postcode:: CA11 8RE
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Meeting time:: 8:15 am

Penrith PRC

Starting point

Grid reference:: SD 71213 97893
Nearest postcode:: LA10 5NF
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Start time:: 9:00 am

Rawthey bridge

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