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A pleasant Sunday morning walk from Silverdale to the summit of Arnside Knott with a visit to the Pepper Pot in Eaves Wood on the return. Finally a comic edition of "One Man and his Dog" to finish off. Sundays don't come much better than this.

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It was a gorgeous morning as we stopped off for this picture at Morecambe. Despite there being a light haze Lakeland was clear to see. However today was pencilled in for our favourite area, it's nearer and quieter.

We were soon parked up at Silverdale and making our way across the fields towards The Cove with views over to Grange over Sands.

Looking over the shoreside cottages towards Humphrey Head and Kents Bank.

And the over way towards Morecambe.

In a short while we were at The Cove where the sun was lighting up the limestone headland.

From the Cove we made our way towards Holgates Caravan Park crossing from Lancashire into Cumbria as we entered. A group of youngsters were busy raking over the embers of the previous evenings bonfire.

Our path across the fields towards Heathwaite is easy to see.

A little to the right the southern scree slopes of Arnside Knott.

Having crossed the fields we walked up the lane towards Hollins Farm.

A Herdwick tup was enjoying the sun. I'm sure he was snoring.

From Hollins Farm we took the path through Heathwaite towards the Knott.

As we left Heathwaite and started the climb up the Knott the views across to Grange started to open.

There were still a number of Red Admirals about but were looking a bit past there best.

Looking over Heathwaite towards Humphrey Head and the Furness peninsula. There is coppicing going on below us and a controlled fire to burn the small branches.

Looking over New Barns to Grange...

...and over Newton Fell to the Coniston Fells with the Langdale Pikes to the far right.

A close up of Dow Crag and Coniston Old Man.

A wide angle view from the viewpoint taking in Skiddaw on the left to the Howgills on the far right.

Closer now, the Helvellyn, Fairfield and High Street fells over Whitbarrow.

From the viewpoint we made our way to the summit trig point.

Looking up the River Kent to the Whinfell Ridge and the Howgills.

Looking over New Barns to Grange & Hampsfell.

Although not perfect it's grand to have some good views at last.

Looking up the Kent estuary towards the Whinfell Ridge....

....and a little further to the right towards the Howgill Fells.

Over Farleton Knott to Middleton Fell and Great Coum.

We made our way down and through the woods to pick up the Arnside - Silverdale top road.

The old Toyota pick up on the Arnside Tower farm access lane looks rather like the one Clarkson and friends tried to destrop on Top Gear a few years ago.

Looking over the farm towards the Knott from Arnside Tower.

Arnside Tower.

We walked up from the Tower to enter the top end of the caravan park. A waymarked path leads to a path through the woods which is followed until you cross a wall stile....

....where a left turn takes us into Eaves Wood and towards the Pepper Pot.

The Pepper Pot....The pepper pot is a circular  tower, about twenty feet high with a conical roof. It was built at the instigation of the Hebden family, who then owned Castlebarrow, the builder being a local man by the name of Mr. Bowskill. Its purpose was to commemorate the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887

The views over Silverdale and down the bay were spoilt by the low sun but I did manage a close up of Ingleborough in the Yorkshire Dales.

From the Pepper Pot it was a delightful walk through the woods towards the car park and the lane known as The Row.

Looking over to Eaves Wood from The Row.

The Row as we start to walk across the fields back to Silverdale.

My biggest regret about the next few pictures is that I didn't think to video the proceedings.

There was a trial for young dogs in progress and the farmer shown here had just sent his dog out to a group of three sheep further up the field. The dog looked to be doing fine until....

....it thought it might be a good idea to just lay there and watch them graze. Perhaps 5 minutes of shouts, whistles and an occasional curse followed which made not one bit of difference.

Eventually the farmer had had enough and sent out a second dog which we assumed would show the youngster what was required of it.

However the second dog tool its lead from the youngster and it to decided to lay down and watch. After a further few minutes of shouts, whistles etc the farmer decided to go and retrieve sheep and dogs himself whilst we made our way back to the car.

And finally back to the car which as just been returned from the repairers.

Next Walk:      7th November 2011 - Lake District - Tarn Hows and Black Fell.

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