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A love of the Lakes

One family's Lakeland Fell Walking blog
by Rob Marsh


"Many are those who have fallen under the spell of Lakeland, and many are they who have been moved to tell of their affection in story, verse and icture"

... A. Wainwright

Cartmel Fell

Walk          : Cartmel Fell (500ft) from Cartmel Fell Church Car Park

Date          : 2nd January 2025

Weather    : Bright sun, cloudless skies @ 2 degrees

Distance    : 1 mile round trip

Difficulty     : Between a 1
(1=easy 5 = hard) 
Terrain Overview

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Walk Overview

A very easy and short walk from St Anthonys Church car park
Good track throughout and a fine cairn on the summit

The car park at the start of the walk


Parking is free at the Church car park. From there head towards the Church entrance

Take the path on the left


At the Church entrance a path on the left follows the line of a wall

Starting out up the path


Starting out up the path

The main road


The path emerges on the road where you will have come down to get to the Church

The wall stile


Cross the road and climb over the wall stile

On the open fell side


Straight over the stile and follow the obvious path leading upwards

The wall stile


The path leads to a wall with a built in stile. Climb over this

The track leading up to the summit


Its now just a case of following the obvious track that leads directly to the summit

The summit cairn comes into view


Within minutes the summit cairn comes into view

Rob, Sue and Ste at the summit


The four of us at the summit of Cartmel Fell. Click here for a 360 degree view

The summit cairn


The summit cairn on (Ravens Barrow) Cartmel Fell

The Howgill Fells


Looking across to the Fairfield Horseshoe from the summit