Naddle Horseshoe Explained

The Naddle Horseshoe is a group of summits in the English Lake District, south of Mardale valley, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.[1]

Wainwright's walk starts at Swindale and ascends Scalebarrow Knott at 1109feet before making a clockwise circuit of the valley of Naddle Beck (not to be confused with the better known Naddle Beck which runs north to the River Greta near Keswick). His route includes Harper Hills at 1358feet, Hare Shaw at 1639feet, Naddle High Forest[2] (this and the next are "nameless" according to Wainwright) at 1427feet, Wallow Crag[2] at 1380feet, a nameless summit at 1390feet, and Hugh's Laithes Pike at 1390feet.

References

54.5283°N -2.7586°W

Notes and References

  1. Book: Wainwright, A.. Alfred Wainwright

    . Alfred Wainwright. The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. 1974. Westmorland Gazette. Kendal. 224–229. The Naddle Horseshoe.

  2. Web site: Database of British and Irish Hills v 12.1. 30 April 2012. Feb 2012. Source for names of two of Wainwright's "nameless summits"