Bullhouse Hill

Greenlaw Rigg

Limekiln, Wharton Fell

Pudding Howe Hill

Small Pond, Wharton Fell

Limekiln, Pudding Howe Hill

Bridleway from Greengate to Tommy Road

It looks as though most traffic on this bit of CROW Access Land follows the drystone wall down towards Tommy Road, but the bridleway heads more to the right and becomes rather indistinct, though there are the remains of a finger post just where the faint path hits the tarmac. Ahead is Greenlaw Rigg of Little Fell, a good place to get blown around on this day of very blustery wind.

Looking down to shakeholes on Wharton Fell

The Dent fault lies between the photographer and the tarn in the distance, and Carbonerfous strata have been bent up against the fault to lie almost vertically - BGS sheet 40, Kirkby Stephen, shows the dip as 80° beneath my feet. The extensive line of shakeholes lies above the Great Scar Limestone at 310m, and water sinking here probably comes out of springs to the north, to flow into the River Eden. Just beyond the wall, beneath the crowded tree shelters of new plantings, the underlying geology is the somewhat older Ashfell Sandstone formation which is impervious, but the tarn itself and much of the marshy ground is on glacial till so the bedrock is not exposed at all.

Sheepfold on Greenlaw Rigg

The sheepfold has been built in a deep sheltered hollow, but behind and to the left is a big pile of limestone partly grassed over, suggesting that something else is going on here besides just sheltering livestock. No antiquity or mining is indicated on the map just here, but there are a number of pillow mounds, cairns and tumuli within two or three kilometres to the northwest and northeast, and old mine workings just across the Eden valley. Perhaps these are related.

Moor Pot

From the SW, a quite substantial stream has formed and cut down into the drift. If it continued, it would form the headwaters of High Intake Gill, but at this point, its path has crossed a limestone bed (most probably the Underset Limestone) and formed a substantial sink. The weather has been quite wet and there's quite a lot of water disappearing here with no sign of the sink backing up. The Underset Limestone is quite a thin bed, but because the limestone dips so steeply this close to the Dent Fault, the waters are likely to emerge from springs in the Eden Valley perhaps as much as 150m lower. That's a lot of depth potential for a system so far from the usual haunts of cavers, I am surprised there's no sign of the sink having been the subject of exploration attempts by digging.

Lowland Bristol VRT on the A683 approaching the Fat Lamb Country Inn

This image was captured on the regular Cumbria Easter Rally service to the Fat Lamb Country Inn near Ravenstonedale. As shown on the destination screen, Swinton is a village in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders. This photograph was taken during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic of 2020/21/22.

Leyland Atlantean at the Fat Lamb Country Inn

A Leyland Atlantean in Ribble National Bus Company (NBC) livery at the Fat Lamb Country Inn. This photograph was taken during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic of 2020/21/22.

Leyland National approaching the Fat Lamb Country Inn

New to Cumberland Motor Services in April 1979 and originally working out of Workington depot, it is now under the care of Workington Transport Heritage Trust. This photograph was taken during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic of 2020/21/22.

Leopard on Egdale Lane

A Leyland Leopard in Highland Scottish livery powers up the incline to the Fat Lamb Country Inn near Ravenstonedale. This photograph was taken during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic of 2020/21/22.

Leyland RT nearing the Fat Lamb Country Inn

A Park-bodied Leyland RT approaching the Fat Lamb Country Inn at the terminus of services from Brough during the Cumbria Easter Rally 2022. This photograph was taken during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic of 2020/21/22.

A pastoral scene by Egdale Lane

Despite a slight haze, a beautiful morning in the Eden Valley. This photograph was taken during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic of 2020/21/22.

AEC Reliance arriving at the Fat Lamb Country Inn

WJC (Wee John's Coaches) AEC Reliance arriving at the Fat Lamb Country Inn from Brough on the first morning of the Cumbria Easter Rally 2022. This photograph was taken during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic of 2020/21/22.