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A Whinash walk - Around Borrowdale	Walks Index
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DISTANCE	TERRAIN	The View	The Walk
18 km	900 m ascent		A Whinash Walk - Around Borrowdale

The proposed wind farm at Whinash could have destroyed the beauty of two of the best valleys in England outside the National Parks. When the boundaries of the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales National Parks were drawn up a small "buffer zone" of wonderful countryside, Borrowdale and Bretherdale, was left out. This had the unfortunate effect of making the area fair game for development.

Efforts are underway to change the status of the area, but a planning application was lodged for an enormous farm of exceptionally large turbines along the ridge between Borrowdale and Bretherdale. This would have dominated the skyline from both valleys, and would have been particularly visible from the the north.

The proposed generators were so big (115 m or 377 ft) that it would also have been possible to see them moving on the northern skyline from parts of  Kendal and the surrounding countryside.

We have a large gallery of photos of Borrowdale and Bretherdale - please click on Photo Library and follow the "Whinash" link
 

Here you cross the Borrowdale valley and follow the old Breasthigh Road track up to the Whinash ridge, returning along this (dodging the many phantom wind turbines in your way) to the exceptional viewpoint of Winterscleugh. From there we walk to Roundthwaite Common and return to the valley floor at Low Borrowdale Farm, and stroll (or crawl) along the valley track through beautiful scenery to our starting point.

This is a fairly arduous walk (18 km, 900 m ascent) designed to show you as much as possible of  Borrowdale in a single day, so you need to be reasonably fit and well prepared. Several stages of the walk are VERY difficult to follow in mist - so don't do it unless your are good with compasses or GPS. Also - in mist - you won't see much! The terrain is not difficult to walk on - there is simply quite a lot of it!

We have walked this route. To the best of our knowledge access is open to all the paths and routes covered, but we cannot accept responsibility for access problems, or for loss, damage, or injury while walking.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ACCESS TO SOME PARTS OF THIS WALK IS DEPENDENT OF THE GOODWILL OF LOCAL LANDOWNERS - PLEASE OBSERVE THE COUNTRY CODE CAREFULLY.
 

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