Walk · Cumbria

Scout Scar and Cunswick Scar from Kendal

Kendal

9.6MILES

4h 19mON FOOT

310mCLIMB

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

Off-road 80% 20% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 56%Lane & track 24%Road with traffic 20%

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

Kendal town hall on Highgate, out by Beast Banks and Gillinggate

Parking

Paid town car parks (Westmorland Shopping Centre, Blackhall Road); the free Scout Scar car park on the Underbarrow road holds about 30 cars and fills at weekends

Directions to the start →

Nine and a half miles and about four and a quarter hours for 310 metres of climb, walked out of the town onto the limestone escarpment: Cunswick Fell first, then the mile-long edge of Scout Scar past the domed shelter known as the Mushroom, with the whole Lakeland skyline in front. It starts in central Kendal, five minutes from the bus station and fifteen from the railway station, so the walk needs no car at all; the free Scout Scar car park on the Underbarrow road cuts it to four miles but holds only about 30 vehicles. The turf is springy and dry underfoot even in winter, but the escarpment edge is an unfenced 60-metre limestone cliff for its entire length, sheep and sometimes cattle graze the top, and there is no water anywhere on the plateau.

THE SMALL PRINTShort lead along the whole escarpment - the western edge is an unfenced 60-metre cliff with no wall. Grazed top, and no water on the plateau.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

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Scout Scar and Cunswick Scar from Kendal

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