Fairfield horseshoe, Rydal

Name: Fairfield horseshoe
Address: Rydal, United Kingdom

#8 among attractions in Rydal

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Fairfield Horseshoe is a classic circular hillwalking ridge walk route starting from Rydal or Ambleside in the English Lake District that takes in all the fells that surround the valley of the Rydal Beck. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 54°27'39"N, 2°58'7"W

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Rydal United Kingdom

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Fairfield horseshoe – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Rydal Water, Rydal Mount, Rydal Hall, Nab Scar.

1.4 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Rydal Water, Windermere
36 min walk • Rydal Water is a small body of water in the central part of the English Lake District, in the county of Cumbria. It is located near the hamlet of Rydal, between Grasmere and Ambleside in the Rothay Valley.
1 miSW
Wordsworth's Lakeland cottage and gardens
Rydal Mount, Rydal
26 min walk • Rydal Mount is a house in the small village of Rydal, near Ambleside in the English Lake District. It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth from 1813 to his death in 1850. It is currently operated as a writer's home museum.
0.9 miSW
Garden, Historical place, Convention center
Rydal Hall, Rydal
24 min walk • Rydal Hall is a large detached house on the outskirts of the village of Rydal, Cumbria, in the English Lake District. It has an early nineteenth-century front facade, but includes some earlier fabric.
1.1 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Nab Scar, Grasmere
29 min walk • Nab Scar is a fell in the English Lake District, an outlier of the Fairfield group in the Eastern Fells. It stands above Rydal Water.
0.7 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
High Pike, Grasmere
18 min walk • High Pike is a fell in the English Lake District, located five kilometres north of Ambleside. Situated in the Eastern Fells, it can be confused with another Lake District High Pike in the Northern Fells. High Pike reaches a height of 656 metres.
~490 ftN
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Low Pike, Rydal
3 min walk • Low Pike is a small fell in the English Lake District. It has a modest height of 508 m and is situated three kilometres north of Ambleside.
1.2 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Heron Pike, Grasmere
30 min walk • Heron Pike is a fell in the English Lake District, two kilometres east of Grasmere. It is part of the Fairfield group in the Eastern Fells.