2022
NY1914 : Upstream Warnscale Beck, looking to Fleetwith Pike
taken 2 years ago, 3 km from Buttermere, Cumbria, England
Upstream Warnscale Beck, looking to Fleetwith Pike
Peggy's Bridge carries a bridleway (despite being marked on the map as "footbridge") over Warnscale Beck, flowing from the cirque bounded by Fleetwith Pike (sunlit), Grey Knotts, Brandreth and Haystacks. As the beck crosses the flat marshy area where sediment has filled in the former extent of Buttermere, its sedate waters form reflections of the sunlit uplands beyond. The track leads north to Gatesgarth, a good starting point for a tour of that cirque and (on today's walk) an ascent of Haystacks, a peak I'd previously failed to visit.