Sunday 7 March 2021

Ward Stone from Abbeystead 10 miles 1650ft


Leaving Abbeystead along the Tarnbrook River Wyre 

with the Ward Stone ridge on the horizon


Ward Stone is the only fell top I know with two trig points, a
white one at 560m..

 ....and a 'not white' one 500m away across the summit plateau, at
561m (that extra metre was tough climb! 

Not content with two trig points it also has its own weather station!

After all that excitement it was time for lunch
beneath the Mare 
and Foal rocks....

 ....with a view to the trough as in the Trough of Bowland 

A stark and lonely silhouetted tree on the descent to Tarnbrook
hamlet

Looking back up Tarnsyke Clough 

Looking back again from Tarnbrook hamlet

Tarnbrook hamlet

 Finally, on the approach to Abbeystead,  passing one of the stylish
stone-carved way markers on the Wyre Way, this one complete with a Lapwing, also known as the Peewit, 


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