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A walk in the south of the county today around the Witherslack area. A bit longer today as the knee seems to be OK. The walking around here is easy with plenty to interest and at this time of year it as the added bonus of delicous merryweather Damsons if your lucky.

We left the car near the Latterbarrow Nature Reserve with a view of Whitbarrow

We actually were going to do this a walk a week or more ago but when I set off my knee went from under me.

A gentle uphill walk through the reserve

Leaving the reserve a walk uphill to High Fell End

I love walking through here. There are some lovely cottages

Another plus.....we are walking in Damson country. These are Merryweather, as sweet as any plum. I soon had picked a couple of pound.

From High Fell End we took the gently rising bridleway above Church Road through what I have always called Church Woods towards Witherslack Hall.

After almost a mile the path leaves the woods on its way to Witherslack Hall.

We however will divert left up a path to the summit of Yewbarrow a far simpler exercise than that of its larger cousin near Watwater in the Western Fells.

A look over the River Kent to Farketon Fell with Ingleborough in the distance.

A few locals wonder if we've got lost

Whitbarrow from the summit cairn of Fellbarrow.

Far Eastern fells are just visible through the haze.

The silhouette of Red Screes and the Kirkstone Pass ahead

Close up of Ingleborough as we return to the bridleway

Back on track

Arrival at Lawns House near Witherslack Hall

Chapel Head Scar on Whitbarrow as we make our way to High Crag Wood on our way to Beck Head.

We have passed this natural trough scores of times over the years without giving it much thought. I wonder who and why put the support bar in place and if it is truly a "natural" feature. It is fed from a spring above it.

Our path went through High Crag Wood and Low Crag Wood before emerging into a lane above Beck Head.

Hedgerows full of Sloes.....I was still enjoying the Damsons!

Hey Up!!!....This is new our Edith....well we haven't seen it before. Fancy a brew?

Can't beat those prices....even if you have to make it yourself & wash up.

Especially good when you have someone who's used to doing this technical stuff ;-)

Just pop your money in an envelope (supplied) and put it through the letter box of the cottage just down the lane. Coincidentally the cottage was once home to one of Ediths uncles and he retired from Kirket Nook farm nearby.

Beck Head and the beck is slowly disappering in a carpet of chickweed

The pond at Mill Side

We walked back to the car along the quiet lanes which mainly service this community

A look back at the southermost crag of Whitbarrow

Latterbarrow Farm near Town End

The Derby Arms...The car was only a couple of hundred yards away now.

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