Walk Information
Walk route: Knock - Great Dun Fell road - Dunfell Hush - Pennine Way - Great Dun Fell (848m / 2,782ft) - Silverband Mine - Great Dun Fell road - Knock
Distance: 7.75 miles
Ascent: 1,750ft
Time: 2 hours 45 minutes
With: on own
Conditions: Dry, hazy Summers evening
Comment:
I started walking from the end of the public road / start of the bridleway outside the hamlet of Knock at grid reference NY 685 287.
70% of the walk was on tarmac on the road to the radar station at the summit of Great Dun Fell.
The Nuttell's guide to 'The Mountains of England and Wales' (volume 2 - England) suggests that you can drive up the private road and park at NY 714 309, saving a 5.0 mile round trip and 1,250ft of ascent, the road signs suggested otherwise.
Route Map
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Licence number AL100038401
Photos
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Road sign at the end of the public road / start of the private road and bridleway to Great Dun Fell
Left to right: Murton Pike, Dufton Pike and Knock Pike
Cross Fell
Great Dun Fell
Great Dun Fell and Green Castle from the road
Green Castle and Knock Ore Gill
Dunfell Hush
The view east from Great Dun Fell - click on image for a larger version
The radar station on the summit of Great Dun Fell
Looking north east to Round Hill from Great Dun Fell
Great Dun Fell 'golfball'
The view east from Great Dun Fell's summit with Cow Green Reservoir on the right
Little Dun Fell with Cross Fell behind
Silverband Mine
Looking down on the Great Dun Fell road
Brownber Hill and Dufton Pike from the road
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