The Whinfell Ridge and the ‘Other’ Borrowdale

Starting above Huck’s Bridge on the Shap Road from Kendal (the A6), this walk goes along what Wainwright calls ‘the Whinfell Ridge’ over Ashstead Fell and Mabbin Crag to Whinfell Common and the Whinfell Beacon (471m). Fromthere it descends into the Borrowdale valley and returns to the A6 through it, along both the north and south banks of Borrow Beck because part of the bridleway along the north bank vanished in a recent landslip!. This Borrowdale valley links the Lake District National Park to the Yorkshire Dales National Park extended in 2017 so that the two parks meet, and sees far fewer walkers than the popular parts of either Park.