The Bannisdale Horseshoe is an upland area in Cumbria, England, near the eastern boundary of the
Lake District National Park
The Lake District National Park is a national park in North West England that includes all of the central Lake District, though the town of Kendal, some coastal areas, and the Lakeland Peninsulas are outside the park boundary.
The area was desi ...
, surrounding the valley of
Bannisdale Beck, a tributary of the
River Mint
The River Mint is a river in Cumbria, England. The Mint starts life at Whelpside at the confluence of Bannisdale Beck, running south-east from Bannisdale Head, and a smaller stream draining a group of small valleys from headwaters in The Fores ...
. It is described in the final chapter of
Wainwright's book ''
The Outlying Fells of Lakeland''.
Wainwright's clockwise walk visits Whiteside Pike at , Todd Fell at , Capplebarrow at , a nameless summit at (identified in the ''Database of British and Irish Hills'' (DoBIH) as Swinklebank Crag),
a further nameless summit at (identified in ''DoBIH'' as Ancrow Brow North),
Long Crag at , White Howe at , a further nameless summit at (identified in ''DoBIH'' as The Forest
) and Lamb Pasture at . Wainwright describes Whiteside Pike as ''"a dark pyramid of heather and bracken and outcrops of rock: much the most attractive part of the horseshoe and worth a visit even if one goes no further."''
References
Fells of the Lake District
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