Walk · Cumbria

Heughscar Hill and the Ullswater Way from Pooley Bridge

Pooley Bridge

7.8MILES

3h 34mON FOOT

260mCLIMB

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The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland

Off-road 88% 12% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 48%Lane & track 40%Road with traffic 12%

Our drawing of the route, over road and path data from OpenStreetMap. It shows where the walk goes and what it goes through. It is not a survey and not a navigation aid — carry OS Explorer on the hill. Off-lead information here is what walkers reported or what signage allows — never our advice. Whether and when a dog is off the lead is the owner’s decision and legal responsibility; keep dogs under control near livestock and follow signs on the day.

Starts at

Dunmallard car park, Pooley Bridge, across the bridge from the village

Parking

Paid Lake District National Park car park, around 100 spaces, full by 10.30am in season; the village itself has almost no parking

Directions to the start →

Seven and three quarter miles and three and a half hours for 260 metres of climb: the Roman road out of Pooley Bridge onto the limestone shoulder of Heughscar Hill, past the Cockpit stone circle and back along the Ullswater Way above the lake. It starts at the Dunmallard car park on the far side of Pooley Bridge, which is paid, holds around 100 cars and fills by half past ten in summer; the Ullswater Steamers pier is five minutes away and takes dogs, which opens up a one-way version. The fell is dry turf and old track, kind on paws, and the lake shore at the end gives a swim, but the whole hill is unfenced common with sheep and nesting waders in spring, and the Ullswater Way passes through several grazed farm fields.

THE SMALL PRINTLeads on the open common, which is grazed all year and holds ground-nesting birds from April to July, and through the farm fields on the Ullswater Way section.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

Water bowls

REGION · CUMBRIA

GRID · 54.6132, -2.8228

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.KOMOOT.COM/GUIDE/2764375/HIKING-AROUND-BARTON-AND-POOLEY-BRIDGE

Heughscar Hill and the Ullswater Way from Pooley Bridge

House rules, decoded

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