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Our aim at WalkLakes is to help you make the most of walking in the Lake District. We do that by searching out the best walks we can find from gentle to challenging and also by putting you in touch with other walkers.
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John just completed his first round of Wainwrights and thanked us for our help by making a *very* generous donation to us via Ko-Fi. If our site helps you then you can do so too if you're so inclined. It helps us keep the web site going.

Start at ko-fi.com/walklakes
Screenshot from our Ko-Fi page. It reads: John Newsome bought a coffee: "Completed the 214 Wainwrights with much assistance from your website - so just want to say ‘thank you’." We replied: "Wow! Well done John, and thank you for your very generous donation."
October 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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WalkLakes was born in 2011 so we're 14 now. Looks like we won't be doing any direct messaging then ...
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July 31, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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It's a dull and damp day in the #LakeDistrict today but don't forget you can always see how the weather is now on one of the many #webcams around the area. We have a page with links to many of them and here's a screen shot of the view from George Fisher right now.

www.walklakes.co.uk/webcams.html
July 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Here's Jessie posing for a photo on Mellbreak North Top.

You can visit it on our #LakeDistrict walk 'Mellbreak and Scale Force'

www.walklakes.co.uk/walk_88.html
A golden retriever X collie wearing a backpack sits in the sun beside a small cairn on the grassy summit of a fell. More fells can be see in the distance. All under a blue sky with some small alto cumulus clouds.
June 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Looking down on Rydal Water from the Coffin Road.

This photograph is featured in 'Grasmere and Rydal Water' which is currently our third most popular #LakeDistrict walk.

www.walklakes.co.uk/walk_76.html
A sunny day in the Lakes. In the foreground a mass of bracken, further back a few deciduous trees, and beyond them a lake with fells behind it. All under a blue sky with only a few clouds.
May 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Today sees our last #LakeDistrict #trigpoint photo and it's Jessie, of course, sitting close beside the trig point on Skiddaw.
A golden brown collie X golden retriever sits on the base slab of a concrete trig point, There are lots of small stones on the ground and more fells in the distance. All under a clear blue sky.
April 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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#WasdaleMRT are holding a big event on Saturday, 10th May at their Longlands Rescue Base just outside Gosforth in the morning and up the valley at the Wasdale Head Inn for the afternoon activities and live music from local band Kickstart and special guests.

Info at www.wmrt.org.uk/2025/03/come...
Poster about event - too much for alt text, follow link in post for details.
April 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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We are almost out of #LakeDistrict #trigpoint photos but here's the one on The Old Man of Coniston taken on another fairly sunny day.

We've got lots of walks up or around the Old Man
www.walklakes.co.uk/walks.html?s...
Traditional stone built trig point sits in the sun on fairly bare rocky ground close to an edge. More fells in the distance all under a fairly blue sky with some cloud.
April 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Here's the #LakeDistrict #Trigpoint on Seatallan on a clear but cold February day. Traditional stone construction again, so much nicer than concrete.

You can visit on our walk "Middle Fell, Seatallan, Buckbarrow - a Greendale round"

www.walklakes.co.uk/walk_144.html
Traditional stone construction trig point sits on rocky ground with a thin covering of snow under pretty clear blue sky with high cirrus.
April 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Oooh, we've found another good photo of the #LakeDistrict #Trigpoint on Red Screes.
A traditional stone built trig point sits on a rocky fell top to the right of the photo with a small tarn to the left. There are many more fells in the distance. All under a sky with some cloud but the sun is breaking through.
April 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Not sure why we stopped posting #LakeDistrict #Trigpoint but here's the one on Red Screes. Traditional stone construction and in good condition when we visited on a fine April day.

You can visit on our walk 'Red Screes and Middle Dodd from Ambleside'

www.walklakes.co.uk/walk_148.html
A traditional stone built trig point sits on a rocky fell top with many more fells in the distance. There's still a little snow on one of them. All under a sky with some cloud but the sun is breaking through.
April 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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It's been a couple of weeks since we posted #LakeDistrict #Trigpoint (cos Covid 😷) but here's the one on Place Fell. Traditional stone construction again and in good condition, with Ullswater beyond. Bit of a grey day when we visited.
A stone built trig point set on rocks sits on a fell under cloudy skies. In the distance a lake can be seen.
March 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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It's been a couple of weeks since we posted #LakeDistrict #Trigpoint but here's the one on Pillar. Traditional stone construction and in good condition when we visited on a fine September day.

You can visit on our 'A Mosedale Horseshoe' walk
www.walklakes.co.uk/walk_20.html
Stone built trig point stand on open fell top with lots of small stone around and some grass too. More fells can be seen in the haze in the distance.
March 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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This is a fairly routine #Wasdale MRT call out report but the team lead was Jess who was a Very Good Dog and we couldn't resist the photo.

www.wmrt.org.uk/incidents/co...
Jess (tri-colour collie from the look of it) lying down with their rescue harness on and looking intently into the distance
February 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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A favourite #LakeDistrict #Trigpoint of ours is the one on Loughrigg Fell and our walk to it from Ambleside is currently our most popular download.

www.walklakes.co.uk/walk_141.html
A stone built trig point sits on rocky ground. There is a dusting of snow around, both on the same fell and more distance fells and the sky is blue with some white clouds.
February 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Today's #LakeDistrict #Trigpoint is the one on Loadpot Hill, one of Wainwright's Far Eastern Fells lying between Ullswater and Haweswater.

Traditional stone again and looked like it had been grouted recently.

(The red thing at the base is an orienteering marker for a race happening that day.)
Stone built trig point sits on bare ground but the rest of the fell top is grassy. An overcast day but some fells just visible in the distance. At the foot of the trig point is a plastic(?) triangle of red about a foot across.
January 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Today's #LakeDistrict #TrigPoint is the one on Little Mell Fell and was in fine condition when we visited it on a sunny day, with Blencathra in the distance behind it.

It's easy to access via a remarkably short and steep walk from the straightforward access point of The Hause.
Under a blue sky with little cloud a stone built trig point in good condition stands on a grassy mound with browner ground beyond across the fell top. A dog sits further away looking into the distance.
January 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Now installed, a couple of days late, on the back of my phone.
January 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Today's #LakeDistrict #Trigpoint is the one on Ling Fell, which is located west of Bassenthwaite Lake and is one of two at the northern tip of Wainwright's North Western Fells (Sale Fell to the east being the other). It's traditional stone built and was in pretty good condition when we visited.
On a grassy fell stands a stone built trig point to the right and a ginger border collie X golden retriever in a harness sits to the left looking out over the fells.
January 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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For today's #LakeDistrict #Trigpoint we find ourselves on Lank Rigg, one of Wainwright's Western Fells, and this one is located south west of Ennerdale Water. Traditional stone built and was in very good condition when we visited.
Stone built trig point on grassy fell top with ginger border collie X lab wearing a harness resting beside it. More fells in the distance, all under fairly grey sky.
January 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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For today's #LakeDistrict #Trigpoint we have a more conventional concrete one, which are relatively rare in Lakeland where a lot of them are stone built. This is the one on High Street (Racecourse Hill).
Under a clear bluer sky a man in a blue shirt and shorts is poised by a concrete trig point on fairly rocky ground. Another man, also in a blue shirt stands over to the right looking out.
January 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Today's #LakeDistrict #TrigPoint is on High Pike (the one in the Northern Fells, there are four in Lakeland) where there is also a fine stone bench. This is one of the very few Wainwrights on the #CumbriaWay

You can read more about that well known Long Distance Path here www.walklakes.co.uk/cw/
A stone built trig point sits on rocky ground with a stone wall behind and a stone built bench in the foreground.
January 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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... and, finally, 125 for Northern Ireland. Sadly we can't yet deep link to individual gauging stations but we can show their locations and give users a link to a map on another site where they can.
Map of the area around Belfast showing lots of blue markers
January 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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And, to add to this, we've increased our totals from 348 to 374 in Scotland, and 200 to 276 in Wales and we've also found 444 gauging stations in Ireland so they're now added for the first time. Just Northern Ireland to do now.
Map of area around Dublin show blue markers at various locations.
January 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Another day, another #LakeDistrict #TrigPoint and this one is a classic: the one on Helvellyn. This was taken on sunny day in March but there's still some snow on the ground. Catstye Cam is the near fell just to the right of centre.
Stone built trig point on rocky ground with snow on the ground beyond and lots of fells in the distance under a very blue sky.
January 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM