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Dist:0.2km<br/>Towards The Old Man of Coniston, looking across Gawthwaite Moor
©Tony Vickers
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking down the east facing hillside.
©Andrew Hill
Dist:0.3km<br/>The footpath to Keldray and the Cumbria Way crosses this field.
©Trish Steel
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©Andrew Hill
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©Andrew Hill
Dist:0.4km<br/>Herdwick, Swaledale and Rough Fell sheep have been bred for generations of the Cumbrian Fells, even back to early medieval times. They have their own hill territory or "heaf", to which they will always return. Many hill farmers have 'fell rights' on which to pasture sheep, cattle and occasionally ponies. The word "Herdwyck" meaning sheep pasture, is recorded in documents going back to the 12th century. Herdwick sheep are the most hardy of all Britain's breeds of hill sheep. The Swaledale sheep has proved itself to be a hardy sheep, well fitted to endure the hardships of exposed and high lying situations on which it thrives. Although the Rough Fell is little known nationwide it is enormously popular on its native mountain and moorland farms.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.4km<br/>The step stile over the stone wall gives walkers access to the footpath to Keldray and the Cumbria Way.
©Trish Steel
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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.4km<br/>The B5281 curves around the knoll with a retaining wall topped with old railings.
©Andrew Hill
Dist:0.4km<br/>From the Ulverston Road
©Michael Graham
Dist:0.5km<br/>At 160-170m this settlement is just east of the highest part of the A5092.
©Andrew Hill
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©Alexander P Kapp
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©Nigel Chadwick
Dist:0.5km<br/>Seen from the top of the B5281 from Ulverston.
©Andrew Hill
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©Alexander P Kapp

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