Flasby Fell

I’ve done this walk before and I’ve been waiting for the right time of year to do this again. I parked up in the little hamlet of Flasby.  It is so small the road through it is one way only. There are only a couple of places to park so I was lucky to have a space.  It was a lovely day and I set out uphill  straight away.

As I got going up the track I looked ahead and saw a huge field filled with dairy cows.  My heart sank was I going to have to go through that field. What a relief as got up to the gate there was a track fenced off – me on one side, the cows on the other.  Thank goodness for that, I’d already decided if I had to go through there I’d just turn around and go for a different walk.  It was lovely walking up to the old hawthorn tree, which is the marker to bear left around the fell.  Even the boggy bits weren’t too boggy.

 

Once I’d turned off at the tree there is a dark indented track across greenways which gradually slopes down to a small road.

  Here I turned right down past Tarn House Farm.  Just past it is the footpath across several fields eventually coming to a stile which takes you into the plantation.

 I love this bit of the walk. Fir trees, lovely views and a peace and quiet you only find in these places.  At the beginning of the plantation is a bird hide but I didn’t really have time to stop half an hour bird-watching so I kept on the forestry track.  As I climbed up through the forest of Crag Wood there were scars in the landscape where there had been tree felling.

Eventually the path drops down and on a sharp corner bearing left there is a signpost and small footpath going right.  This was my way.  Here was was the reason why I was doing this walk in June.  Following the path down the forest is now Rhododendrons in bloom. Just beautiful. 

 

At the end of the woods there is a gate into a field taking me down to a bridge across Septeria Gill. This track is then just a steady walk back into Flasby.

Fantastic 6 mile walk – one to put in my diary for the same time next year.