Big Stone Skyline Walk

The view across Wenningdale to the south-western edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park can be enjoyed from many parts of Tatham Fells. Click the image above for a guide to the skyline summits.

The summits can be linked in a long day walk. You can view a photographic record of one such walk below, and there are some notes on the route at the bottom of the page.

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Early morning near Bullpot Farm

The first summit: Barbon Low Fell - view over Lunesdale

Barbon Low Fell - view to Kirkby Lonsdale

Calf Top, looking to Sedbergh and the Howgills

Calf Top - view to Dentdale

Crag Hill - view back to Calf Top

Crag Hill - Howgills view

Ingleborough from Crag Hill

Great Coum summit - view back to Calf Top

Great Coum - view of Howgills & Baugh Fell

Whernside summit
Tatham Fells school was there too!

Ingleborough from Whernside

Penyghent from path down Whernside

Great Coum and Whernside from the Ingleborough plateau

Ingleborough summit

Penyghent from above Horton-in-Ribblesdale

Penyghent summit

Penyghent summit - view to Fountains Fell

Fountains Fell summit

Really the end!
Back down off Fountains Fell, near Rainscar

Notes

The route taken on the walk illustrated was 28 miles with 8275' of climbing (45km / 2530m). It included the summits named in dark blue on the skyline photo guide -. the main fells visible from most places in Tatham Fells.

More distant summits may appear on the skyline, depending on where in Tatham Fells you stand. Great Knoutberry Hill is visible from the Big Stone, but as you go higher, others - such as Dodd Fell - appear over the shoulders of the nearer fells.

If you have lots of time and energy, you could include Gragareth (+ 4 miles / 350') and Plover Hill (+ 2 miles / 175') in your route, but these are really subsidiary summits of their neighbours, Great Coum and Penyghent respectively, and visiting them would necessitate some out-and-back repetition.

Other possible variants would be to use different start / finish points; or to omit Barbon Low Fell.

Whichever version you do, it'll be a better way of doing the Three Peaks than trying to make a circle of them!

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