Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
On reaching the main street in Cleator turn left for a short distance, leav-
ing it, right, into Kiln Brow. Descend until a signpost ('Fell Road via Nook
Farm') directs you right to the River Ehen and Black How Bridge. Cross the
bridge and, having made but the briefest of acquaintances with the River
Ehen, turn left on the access road leading to Black How Farm. Go left just
before the farm buildings, and in a short while take a signposted track,
right, for Dent, soon to join a metalled roadway.
If the weather is truly bad, the
road can be used to bypass Dent and get round to Ennerdale Bridge.
Cross the road to a gate giving into Black How Plantation, taking to a
broad, gravel track rising into woodland. When you reach a junction, turn
left for Dent Fell, now following a narrow path along the edge of a larch
plantation. After about 100m, the path swings to the right, and climbs
through a firebreak towards Dent Fell.
At the top of the plantation, cross a track, and go forward beside a fence,
maintaining this direction onto the highest part of the fell. The prominent
cairn you see ahead is a shelter, with the very modest cairn that marks
the summit another 550m distant across a grassy plateau.
DENT FELL
Wainwright commented that Dent, 'impels the… urge to linger awhile'. This a master-
piece of understatement - only the fittest of the fit will feel that lingering is anything
like an option. Mere mortals will be obliged to remain collapsed in a heap for some time
before taking in the wonders of its vast panorama - laid out like a map of towns and
villages, fields and furrows, blue, swelling sea and misty isles, far-off mountains and
richly green valleys - while onward beckon the fells.
Just a few strides beyond the cairn, the path starts to descend. Cross a
stile, and continue down through an area of cleared plantation to intercept
a forest trail at a signpost. The original line of the route went left here, but
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