The Newlands horseshoe is a circular
walk
Walking (also known as ambulation) is one of the main gaits of terrestrial locomotion among legged animals. Walking is typically slower than running and other gaits. Walking is defined by an ' inverted pendulum' gait in which the body vaults ...
in the Lake District, incorporating the main peaks surrounding the
Newlands Valley
The Newlands Valley is in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. It is regarded as one of the most picturesque and quiet valleys in the national park, even though it is situated very close to the popular tourist town of Keswick and ...
.
Standard round
The regular horseshoe covers six peaks, and approximately 9.4 miles or 15.1 kilometers of walking. It includes the fells
Catbells
Cat Bells is a fell in the English Lake District in the county of Cumbria. It has a height of and is one of the most popular fells in the area. It is situated on the western shore of Derwentwater within of the busy tourist town of Keswick. I ...
,
Maiden Moor
Maiden Moor is a fell in the English Lake District, it stands south of the town of Keswick and is part of the high ground that separates the Newlands Valley and Borrowdale, it has a modest height of and so fails to be mentioned on many UK m ...
,(1687 ft),
High Spy
High Spy is a fell in the English Lake District it is situated on the ridge that separates the Newlands Valley from Borrowdale, eight kilometres (five miles) south of Keswick.
Topography
The fell reaches a height of 653 metres (2142 ...
(2143 ft),
Dale Head
Dale Head is a fell in the north-western sector of the Lake District, in northern England. It is 753 metres or 2,470 feet above sea level and stands immediately north of Honister Pass, the road between Borrowdale and Buttermere.
Topo ...
(2473 ft),
Hindscarth (2385 ft), and
Robinson Robinson may refer to:
People and names
* Robinson (name)
Fictional characters
* Robinson Crusoe, the main character, and title of a novel by Daniel Defoe, published in 1719
Geography
* Robinson projection, a map projection used since the 1960 ...
. The walk may be extended by another five or so miles, and by four more peaks, by including an extra traverse from
Knott Rigg
Knott Rigg is a fell at the head of the Newlands Valley in the English Lake District. It is situated some 8.5 kilometres south west of Keswick and has a modest height of 556 metres (1825 feet). Its name is derived from the Old English la ...
to
Causey Pike; but the Horseshoe proper - culminating in what
Wainwright called “the deep trench confined by Maiden Moor and Hindscarth” - surrounds and encloses Upper Newlands itself.
Wainwright’s version
Wainwright himself favoured a slightly reduced round, beginning at Cat’s Bells but omitting Robinson in favour of a descent via Hindscarth and Scope End. Apart from the beauty of the track itself, the latter descent (in his opinion) “earns full marks because of the lovely views of Newlands directly ahead”.
[A Wainwright, ''The North-Western Fells'' (Kendall 1964) Hindscarth 6]
See also
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Coledale horseshoe
The Coledale horseshoe, or Coledale Round, is a semi-circle of fells surrounding Coledale in the Lake District, England.
It provides excellent ridge-walking over the fells. Due to the topography, there are multiple variants of the horseshoe with ...
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Fairfield horseshoe
Fairfield Horseshoe is a classic circular hillwalking ridge walk route starting from Rydal or Ambleside in the English Lake District that takes in all the fells that surround the valley of the Rydal Beck.
The round
The walk is extremely popular ...
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Walking in the United Kingdom
Geography of Cumbria
Tourist attractions in Cumbria