Bannisdale Horseshoe


The Bannisdale Horseshoe is an upland area near the eastern boundary of the Lake District National Park, surrounding the valley of Bannisdale Beck, a tributary of the River Mint. It is described in the final chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. It describes
Wainwright's clockwise walk visits Whiteside Pike at, Todd Fell at, Capplebarrow at, a nameless summit at , a further nameless summit at , Long Crag at, White Howe at, a further nameless summit at and Lamb Pasture at. He describes Whiteside Pike as "a dark pyramid of heather and bracken and outcrops of rock: much the most attractive part of the horseshoe and worth a visit even if one goes no further."