Community Centre & Art Gallery
Friends of The Lake District
Walks
Landscape & Heritage
Saturday 11th May
Oddendale Landscape and Heritage Walk
Shake Holes, Cairns and Bields – a walk exploring the landscape and heritage of the fells near Oddendale.
Join FLD’s David Evans on this walk to explore our local landscape.
The walk is free to attend – but please make a donation, if you can, to help support the organisations running these events.
A walk led by David Evans, a volunteer with Friends of the Lake District, exploring the hidden heritage of the westernmost part of the Westmorland Dales on the fells to the east of Shap. The landscape is rooted in its geological foundations, has been shaped by repeated glaciations and by people over the last 10,000 years. The walk will look for clues in the landscape that help tell us something about its history including shake-holes in the limestone, prehistoric cairns, and bields from more recent times.
Walk Times: 2pm – 4.30pm
Meet at The Old Courthouse, Shap at 1.30pm
Walk length: 3-4 miles
Terrain: Generally easy walking on stone tracks or grass paths but with options to view some features over more uneven ground.
Not suitable for wheelchairs.
Spaces limited – please book.
Car share if possible – Meet at The Old Courthouse at 1.30pm, Shap to park.
- Terrain: Generally easy walking on stone tracks or grass paths but with options to view some features over more uneven ground.
- What to wear: Please dress according to the weather, warm clothes and waterproofs if cool and/or wet, don’t forget sunhats, sunscreen if hot! Please wear sturdy shoes or wellies.
- What to bring: Snacks and a drink, binoculars
- Parking: At The Old Courthouse, Shap
- Toilets or facilities: Available in Shap.
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