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'Great Langdale'
Location : Ambleside
Map - Ordnance Survey - NY 290060
The 'classic' view of Great Langdale and the Pikes from St Annes. Photo by Tony Richards
The Langdale Pikes, and the New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel
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Location : Ambleside
Map - Ordnance Survey - NY 290060
The 'classic' view of Great Langdale and the Pikes from St Annes. Photo by Tony Richards
The Langdale Pikes, and the New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel
The Great Langdale valley is some 12,170 acres, much of it in the care of the National Trust, who have ten farms here. The valley stretches from Ambleside through Clappersgate, Skelwith bridge, Elterwater, Chapel Stile, to the National Trust owned Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, and the glaciated valley of Mickleden.
The surrounding fells include Pike O’Blisco, Crinkle Crags, Rossett Pike, and the Langdale Pikes - Pike O’Stickle, Harrison Stickle and Pavey Ark.
As you come over the rise into Elterwater from Skelwith Bridge, you are presented with a typical Lakeland view - sheep grazing on the common in front of white-washed cottages with slate roofs, and the craggy peaks of the Langdale Pikes rising behind.
One of the most picturesque villages in the Lake District, Elterwater is the gateway to the famous Langdale valley, with the National Trust owned High Close Youth Hostel, and its Victorian garden.
There is a spectacularly located NT campsite at Great Langdale, open all year [NY288057].
A two acre mountain garden at Copt How in Chapel Stile is open to the public. It holds superb collections of acers, camellias, azaleas, rhododendrons, rare shrubs, trees, and unusual perennial.
The Britannia Inn and the huge Maple tree at Elterwater. Photo by Tony Richards
Chapel Stile from the ridge of Lingmoor Fell.
Photo by Ann Bowker
New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, Great Langdale. Photo by Simon Ledingham
Climbing above Great Langdale on the path from the New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel
to Loft Crag. Photo by Ann Bowker
The Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, the Langdale Pikes and Mickleden from Side Pike.
Photo by Tony Richards
The Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, the Langdale Pikes and Mickleden from Side Pike.
Photo by Tony Richards
Mickleden from the Side Pike cattle grid. Photo by Tony Richards
From Great Langdale, the road ascends in loops and bends to Blea Tarn, over the Side Pike cattle grid,
to Little Langdale. It is steeper than it looks here! Photo by Tony Richards
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Page created 29 Nov 2007. Last changed 30 Nov 2007.