| Area: | Yorkshire Dale | Ascent: | 426 feet |
| Walk No: | 133 | Time: | 2 hours 45 minutes |
| Date: | 9th March 2008 | Parking: | Roadside on Ingleton - Hawes road (SD760788) |
| Distance: | 6.00 miles | Weather: | Cloudy with sunny spells |
| Route: | Car - Ribblehead - Winterscales - Broadrake - Hill Inn - Car |
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Just a ramble around the railway viaduct at Ribblehead today using part of the Yorkshire Dales 3 Peak route and farm lanes.
The Ribblehead viaduct from where we left the car
A cloud civered Whernside
Park Fell, Souther Scales Fell and Ingleborough
Pen y ghent
The Station Inn at Ribblehead
Walking to the viaduct at Batty Green
For more information on the Ribblehead Viaduct and/or The Settle to Carlisle Railway go HERE
Whernside now cloud free
Looking back as we walk up to Blea Moor sidings
Blea Moor signal box. We walked up to the box before dropping back down a little to take the bridleway to Winterscales
Plenty of walkers on their way to Whernside. The spoil heaps ahead are from the 10 feet diameter ventilation shafts of Blea Moor Tunnel. There were seven individual shafts sunk along the line of the tunnel. Tunneling was started in both directions from the bottom of each shaft and at each end of the tunnel giving a total of 16 working faces. The deepest shaft is nearly 500 feet deep.
Looking across the railway to the rising slope of Whernside (summit not in picture)
A very wet and muddy bridleway to Winterscales
Approaching Winterscales
An old Lime Kiln
Winterscales Farm
From Winterscales we took the bridleway to Broadrake. Looking across the valley to Ingleborough
Ivescar
A close up of a distant Pen y Ghent
Nearly at Bruntscar where we would meet up with the path down from Whernside
Looking back to a sunny Whernside from the 3 Peaks path to the Hill Inn
The Old Hill Inn
Ingleborough from near the Old Hill Inn. The 3 Peaks path can be seen crossing Souther Scales
The Limestone Scars above White Scar cave
Whernside
and again in close up
An old roadside marker
And finally.........back to the car
Next Walk: 12th March 2008 -- A Promenade walk
Last Walk: 6th March 2008 -- Lancaster Canal & Glasson Dock
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