318 changes, newest first. Notable additions, corrections and fixes, dated and linked to the page they change. Routine data refreshes and invisible maintenance are not listed.
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How to call Mountain Rescue, on every fell page
Every fell page now ends its Hazards section with how to call Mountain Rescue: dial 999 or 112, ask for the Police and then Mountain Rescue, what to have ready, and to stay where you are until the team contacts you, from Mountain Rescue England and Wales's own guidance. Under each summit's grid reference, a line now says it is the summit's position, and to give your own if you call from anywhere else.
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The National Park's kit list, by its new name
The National Park Authority replaced its walkers' checklist with a What to pack page. Our what to carry guide already linked the new page; the sentence on fell pages that names our sources now calls it by its new name too.
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Places to stay, brought up to date
The places-to-stay lists on walk, fell and village pages are refreshed. Stays we have checked since the lists were last made now appear, among them Lake View Country House near Ambleside and Elterwater and Croftland Cottages near Keswick, and each village's list follows its three-mile radius from the village's corrected position.
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National Park links that had moved
The National Park Authority moved its car parks and boating pages. Every link we make to them, on the parking pages and cards, the Glenridding, Windermere and Ullswater questions and the overnight-parking guide, now goes to the new pages.
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See the track you are ticking fells from
When you tick fells from GPX files on My progress, the page now draws each track with the summits it reached, numbered in the order you reached them, with the same numbers in the list. Fells already in your logbook show hollow. The sketch is drawn on your device with no map, so the files still never leave it. Links on that page are now readable in dark mode too.
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Walk headings that say where they start
Ten walks shared their heading with the fell or waterfall they visit, so the walk page and the fell page looked the same at a glance. Their headings now say where they start or what shape they are, such as Orrest Head from Windermere station, Hallin Fell from Howtown and Great Mell Fell out and back.
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One description for each photo
A photo now carries the same description for screen readers wherever it appears: on its fell page, on walk pages and on collection cards, which used to give only the fell's name. Blencathra's described a different photo and now describes the grassy Hallsfell Top ridge it shows.
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Somewhere to stay by Kents Bank station
The Humphrey Head walk from Kents Bank station and the Hampsfell walk from Grange-over-Sands now list a place to stay: Kents Bank Holiday Cottage, a few minutes on foot from Kents Bank station. Its dog and parking details are quoted from its own website. The Humphrey Head and Hampsfell fell pages show it too.
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One name for the Cat Bells verge parking
The roadside verge parking near Cat Bells read "Cat Bells Catbells (verge)" on the parking map and the walks that use it. It is now "Cat Bells (verge)", alongside its neighbours "Cat Bells (layby)" and "Cat Bells, south-east (layby)".
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The routes page shows routes on a phone's first screen
On a phone the first route now sits in the first screen, under the safety note, the search and the filters. The introduction, the gentler-walks link and the collections now follow the list. The page responds sooner because the map loads only when you open it. If you have ticked fells in My progress, a new sort, Most new fells for me, puts the walks with the most fells you haven't ticked first. Your ticks stay on your device.
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Show any stage of a route on its map
On a route page, each stage's number is now a button. Press it and the page goes up to the map, draws that stage, shades it on the elevation profile and zooms to it; Back to stage takes you back. Move along the elevation profile and a dot follows the walk on the map. Warnings and escape points stay on top of the map.
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The weather when you reach each top
On a route page, under today's hourly strip, choose a start time and a pace, and each top shows when you would reach it and what the forecast holds there that hour, in the strip's own words. The route's verdict is unchanged; this is when you get there, not a better forecast.
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Car park full? Plan B in one tap
On a route page in the morning, a Car park full? button at the top takes you straight to the walk's other car parks, and each one now has a Directions link to its own spot. We still never say whether anywhere has spaces.
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Tick fells from your own GPX files
My progress can now read the GPX files of walks you have done, from Strava, a watch or an app, and list the fells each track reached, by the same rule our own routes use: within 30 m of the summit, or within 80 m and no more than 12 m below it. You see the list and choose before anything is ticked, and the files never leave your device.
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Hazards: sources small, the safety line full size
In each fell's Hazards section, the lines that only give a source or point elsewhere, such as the data credit and the Clag Index link, are now set small. The line under the incident card that tells you to check conditions and carry navigation kit is now full size, like every other warning there. No wording changed.
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Car park notes without map codes
Car park descriptions no longer show raw OpenStreetMap reference numbers. Where a note quoted the map's own name for a car park, it now says so in words. The Directions and Something changed here? links under each car park are easier to tap. Some fell pages' search descriptions now show in full. The features page's featured report shows a photograph.
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Wast Water, one spelling, and fells listed once
The Wast Water page now calls itself Wast Water throughout, as our own words already did; official names such as the Wastwater Screes keep theirs, and old parking map links still work. On the 19 town and village pages with an Explore section, the separate Fells & walks box is gone: Explore lists the same fells on its map, and each page is about 540 px shorter on a phone.
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One look for headings, links and photo cards
Section headings now use one typeface at each level across the site. An arrow ↗ now means a link leaves hikes.guide; links to our own pages end in →. Every link, button and field shows the same focus ring when you move through a page with the keyboard. Photo cards no longer repeat their own title under the picture, Blencathra's card shows the summit instead of the sky, and the classic horseshoes list leads with the walked routes, longest first.
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Village walk lists, the conditions page and the rescue chart
On a village's Explore page the walks you can reach on foot come first, then by bus, then by car, shortest first within each. The conditions page gives areas with the same answer to 'When does today turn?' one line, and each fell's verdict sits in the same place in the full list. Closed paths on the village maps are clearly dashed. The mountain rescue chart now shows every year from 2019, with the two years we have not sourced marked as such.
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Routes first on the routes page
The routes page now opens on the routes. Choose by how long you have, how hard and where, in a panel that opens over the list on a phone; three quick picks set the usual questions in one tap, and what you chose shows above the list with a cross to clear it. On a phone the first route used to be a long scroll down; now two are in view straight away.
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Hazards on the tops, in four tiles
The weather and conditions pages, and each scored fell's Today box, now show four tiles: wind on the tops, cold, snow and ice, cloud, and rain. Each gives the day's figure, the line it is measured against and where that line comes from, and says plainly when the line is our own. A tile goes large when at least one top in ten is past its line.
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One look per job on fell and route pages
Fell and route pages now set every paragraph at one size, every credit and footnote at one smaller size, and every link in one colour. On fell pages the parking card in the side column is a short summary instead of repeating the section below, and the parking section has plain Parking and Buses headings.
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One grade, one verdict, one date
Every walk card now gives its grade the same way, its effort first, then its hardest part, so the same walk no longer reads three ways on three pages. The day's verdict looks the same everywhere, dates are written one way, the forecast is fifteen days wherever it is mentioned, and distances lead in kilometres.
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Said once, and honest on a bad day
Town and lake pages no longer repeat their walks, their lake facts or the conditions caveat. When nothing scores well on the tops, the pages say so in a sentence and point to the bad-day list instead of showing a row of zeros. Villages with no photo open on a tidy heading, and a start time that has passed gives tomorrow's.
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Fells to save for a bad day, as a tool
The bad-day list now opens with its three lowest tops, gives each fell's height under the list's 400 m line and its round time, and has a finder. It says plainly that low is not the same as sheltered. Long pages such as fells by bus and the conditions ranking gain a row of links to jump to the list, the map and the questions.
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Faster pages, and tidier names
Town and collection pages draw much less of the page before you scroll to it, so they respond sooner on a phone. Weather is now called Weather in the menu. Hawes End, Cat Bells and Wast Water are spelled one way in our own words, bus stop shorthand is written out, and car park notes no longer show our working notes.
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Every village, ready for your day
Grange-in-Borrowdale, Hawkshead, Pooley Bridge, Portinscale, Seatoller, Stonethwaite, Threlkeld and Troutbeck now open the way Keswick does, so all nineteen towns and villages carry today's light, the walks you can reach and a map. A walk now counts as by bus from a place only when a bus that calls there reaches its start; the others say which bus, and that it does not come from that village.
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Fells by bus, and the shortest bus walks
The fells-by-bus list now opens with the three whose start is the shortest walk from a stop with a year-round bus, and every fell says how far its start is from the stop and whether that bus stops for the winter. A finder narrows the list by the walk from the stop, a year-round bus or the area. Collection pages now also show their distance range and their shortest walk.
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One set of labels, one set of sizes
The small labels across the site now come in three kinds: a verdict, a status and a plain tag, so the same thing looks the same everywhere. Page titles, big figures and headings use one size each per kind of page. A fell's hazard rating keeps its larger, bold label. No wording changed.
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Charts you can read on a phone
Every chart in the data reports, the mountain rescue report and the April-not-August page is now drawn twice, once for a phone and once for a wider screen, so its labels print at a readable size on a phone instead of a few pixels high. The figures and words are unchanged.
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Answers nearer the top
Hallin Fell, Stickle Pike, Rydal Water, Stonethwaite, Wast Water and the conditions page open with a plainer first paragraph that answers what people come for. The homepage has a box to look up a fell by name, and every route page links straight to its map. Walks pages name the walk that starts in the village.
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Boats back, and small fixes
The walks you can reach by boat are back on the lake page and the town walk finders, with two new ones from Keswick and Glenridding. Links on fell pages no longer hide under the section bar when you tab to them, the editorial standards contents are easier to tap, and the copy boxes on the data reports are labelled for screen readers.
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Fell pages: one place for today
A fell page now opens with what the fell is like, then one box for today: the verdict, the temperature at the top, the cloud base and freezing level, and one rain total, now labelled as the whole day from midnight to midnight. Before, two different rain figures could sit side by side. On a day to save it the box turns amber. The routes follow, and the gaps between sections are now even.
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Four lists that do the choosing
Dog-friendly walks, kind on the knees, pushchair walks and walks under two miles now open with the three that fit best and the measured reason for each: fewest gates, gentlest way down, the fullest buggy verdict, the shortest outing to a top or a waterfall. Every walk's card gives its figure, and a finder narrows the list by the question you care about.
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How we know, under the figures
On fell, collection and place pages a short line under each block of figures now says where they come from, and links to the checks on our editorial standards page. Where a walk's card mentions steep ground, exposure, the weather or a hazard, a line under it says what that rests on: measured from the GPX track, judged from the map, or checked by Lee, with the date.
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Four more villages, ready for your day
Braithwaite, Elterwater, Patterdale and Rosthwaite now open the way Keswick does, with today's light, the walks you can reach on foot or by bus, the nearest tops and a map. A walk that starts by a bus stop in the place now counts as on foot from it too, so Ambleside, Bowness and Glenridding show a few more walks from town.
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Nine new walks and a pace-aware daylight bar
Nine new planned walks fill gaps on fells we covered thinly, among them Cold Pike, Side Pike, Glaramara, Troutbeck Tongue and the Mell Fells. On route pages the daylight bar opens on its own and moves with your pace, and a route nobody has walked says Planned at the top. Rydal Water is now walked, and Scar Crags and the Stile End round walked in part.
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Hubs, maps and links
The hub pages and the homepage follow the same design rules as the rest of the site. Walk lines on the town maps are a darker red, so they no longer read as roads. The Bowder Stone's knees note gives the way back as well as the way in. A hazard card says it was checked by Lee only while its words are exactly the ones he checked. Two dead outside links are replaced.
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Six more towns, ready for your day
Ambleside, Grasmere, Coniston, Windermere, Bowness and Glenridding now open the way Keswick does: today's daylight and latest sensible start, how many walks you can reach on foot, by bus or by boat, the verdict on the nearest tops where they are scored, and a map and finder for the walks from town. Where a town has no boat or no closure, its page says nothing about it.
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Lake walks that actually reach the shore
Each lake's walks page now starts with the walks that come within 50 m of the water, then those within 500 m, measured against the lake's outline. Bassenthwaite and Esthwaite say plainly that no walk on the shore is mapped yet. Three walks pages that mostly repeated a neighbour now send you to it: Colwith Force and Loughrigg Tarn to Elter Water, Dungeon Ghyll Force to Great Langdale.
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One look across the site
Place, collection and feature pages now follow the same design rules as fell and route pages: one size for every section heading, four kinds of box kept for facts, warnings, tools and links, and three kinds of label. Links inside sentences are underlined, small links are easier to tap, and a few pieces of small print are easier to read. No wording changed.
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Keswick: pick a walk by how you get there
The Keswick page now opens with today's daylight and the latest sensible start, the ways in (7 walks on foot from town, 14 by bus, 5 by launch) and the verdict on the six nearest tops. A walk finder filters the 18 walks by how you reach the start, effort and length, with the map following, and Latrigg and the Skiddaw walks now also show the walk in from town.
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Walks pages that overlapped are now one
Four walks pages that listed nearly the same walks as a neighbour now send you to it: Rydal Hall to Rydal Water, Sour Milk Gill to Easedale Tarn, Skelwith Force to Elter Water, and the Grasmere lake list to Grasmere. Borrowdale's walks are grouped by the village or pass they start from, and seventeen village and town pages open with the walks that start there.
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Fell and route pages, tidied
Fell and route pages now follow one set of design rules: every section heading is the same size, the questions and answers read as plain rows, and boxes are kept for at-a-glance facts, warnings and tools. No wording changed.
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Hikes Today: no more grey patches on walk maps
The offline walk maps in Hikes Today no longer show grey patches inside the area around a walk. On walks that circle a valley, such as the Kentmere and Langdale horseshoes, the middle of the valley is now drawn as map.
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Explore Keswick on one map
The Keswick page now has a map of the 18 walks from town, the 10 fells around it with today's verdict, the buses and the Derwentwater launch, the car parks and toilets, and the path closures. Choose a walk and it says how you reach the start: on foot, by bus, by launch or by car. Everything on the map is also listed under it, so the page works without it.
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Every last bus says when its timetable ends
The last bus out on town walks, and the bus line under the daylight bar on walk pages, now say when the timetable they come from runs to, so the summer times read until 1 November. After that date they stop showing a time. The Wasdale walks no longer show the Wasdale Explorer's last bus, because its 2026 season ended on 31 August.
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How every route is checked
The editorial standards page has a new section setting out the checks behind every route page: what Lee checks himself, what the automated checks test every night, what is scored again each morning, and what no check can see on the day you walk. Every figure in it is counted from the site's own records at each build. Each route page and the terms page link to it.
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Wray Castle by boat
The Wray Castle landing on Windermere is now on the boat page, with its season, and the walk from Wray Castle along the west shore now shows up among the walks you can start from a pier. It is 0.43 km on foot from the landing to the start.
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Parking at Rydal Hall and Skelwith Force
Rydal Hall now leads with its own paid car park for visitors, and no longer lists a car park two kilometres away in Ambleside. Skelwith Force now points to Silverthwaite, about 300 m away, and says the Skelwith Bridge car parks are for customers. The Rydal car park entry is merged into the Ambleside Cricket Club car park it duplicated.
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New photos for Hobcarton Crag and Scales Fell
Hobcarton Crag and Scales Fell now open with our own photographs, each with a description for screen readers.
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Rate my route: today's conditions and parking
When Hikes Today rates a GPX file, it now shows today's conditions on the tops it found and up to three car parks within 5 km of the start. Suggesting a walk now asks you to confirm the line is your own, and the app asks before it uses a file that looks like it came from someone else's route. Fell names with a qualifier now read in full, such as Hartsop Above How (Gill Crag).
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GPX files open in your mapping app
Route GPX downloads are now sent as GPX files, so phones offer to open them in a mapping app instead of showing them as text.
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Keswick, ready for your day
The Keswick page now opens with a day from Keswick: how the nearby fells score today, from Latrigg up to Skiddaw Little Man, sunset and the latest sensible start, path closures near town, whether the launch is running, and a link to the Met Office mountain forecast. On every place page the summit verdict now says the date it was scored, and today only when it is. Keswick lists the last buses out of town.
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Last bus times now say when they run to
Every last bus a walk page shows now says when its timetable ends, so the summer last buses read until 1 November. After that date the panel at the top of a walk page stops showing the summer time and points you to the timetable instead. Walks reached by the 77 now say it does not run from 2 November to 21 March.
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Latrigg car park, and the Kentmere pods
The two Latrigg car park entries are now one, with room for about ten cars, as checked in person. The Kentmere page now lists Kentmere Farm Pods under where to stay.
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Hartside south: the way to Cuns Fell
The Hartside south walk now explains the spur to Cuns Fell: a path the Ordnance Survey map shows but OpenStreetMap does not, pathless grass for the last 250 m, and back the same way to the Maiden Way.
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Getting there: from Keswick, boat seasons and clearer buses
The Getting there page now opens with a section for Keswick: the buses, car parks and Derwentwater launch landings for walks from the town. A boat landing out of season, such as Ash Landing, now says so on the map and in the list. Each bus route shows where it runs, end to end, so the 516 now reaches Dungeon Ghyll, and the lists show how many entries they hold.
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Fixes to the hills beyond the Lakes
The new Howgill, Mallerstang and North Pennine walks no longer appear in Lake District lists and counts, and their pages no longer offer a comparison that could not work. Six hill heights in feet are corrected by a foot to match the hill database, and each page now says plainly that we have no bus answer for it yet.
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Hills beyond the Lake District: the Howgills, Mallerstang and the North Pennines
Eight new planned walks and 26 new hill pages outside the National Park: The Calf and the Howgills from Sedbergh, Ravenstonedale, Cautley and Fairmile Road, Wild Boar Fell and Swarth Fell, Cross Fell from Kirkland, Dufton Pike, and Fiend's Fell, Melmerby Fell and Cuns Fell from Hartside. The Nuttall, Hewitt, Marilyn and HuMP list pages show those on their list in a section of its own. All eight walks are drawn from the map and not yet walked.
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Conditions on a route, in one sentence
The conditions panel on route pages now opens with a plain answer, today against tomorrow, and a strip that links down the page: latest start for daylight, parking that fills early, the last bus back and the hardest part. Snow and ice on any top are named. In the evening it leads with tomorrow.
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Weather cards you can read
On the weather page, the day cards that count dry runs were hard to read on phones set to dark mode, and the shades ran out of order. They now go from pale for dry to deep for wet, with text that reads on every card. Two other pages, navigating in cloud and the last petrol before Wasdale, had the same dark-mode fault and are fixed too.
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Parking at Ravenglass and Ritson's Force
Ravenglass now lists the National Park's own pay car park, the railway's car park and the free car park on Murrayfield Terrace; a pin that led to Muncaster Castle's car park for visitors with disability needs has gone. Both pages now name the summer-weekend Wasdale Explorer bus, and path closures were re-read.
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Places nearby, on fell and place pages
Every place page now lists the nearest other places with a page of their own, and every fell page lists the places whose page counts it among their nearest fells, so Gowbarrow Fell, Ullswater and Glenridding now lead to Aira Force. A walk's feature card about a place with its own page, such as Aira Force or Stock Ghyll Force, now links to it.
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Seven more fell pages with our own photos
Fairfield, Rampsgill Head, Lingmoor Fell, Hare Stones, Irton Fell, Selside Pike and Swinescar Pike now open on a photo taken on our own walks. On the first three it replaces a Wikimedia Commons picture; the other four had no photo before.
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More of my own photos on the fell lists
Collection pages were hiding 21 of my own fell photos behind old library records, so cards like Red Screes and Clough Head showed a drawn ridge instead. They now show the photo, 48 cards across 13 pages. Eight more fells get photos from my Strava walks, and four library photos now name their photographer, Ann Bowker.
On every fell list, the tick box now has a bigger target, so a near miss on a phone ticks the fell instead of opening its page. The height filter only offers bands the list actually has: no more 'Under 400 m' on the Hewitts or Nuttalls, where every hill is over 600 m.
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The Hewitts, as a list
A new Hewitts page lists the 113 Lake District Hewitts with a guide here, out of 523 in England, Wales and Ireland, with a map and tick-off like the other lists. The one without a guide is named, and two tops that sit beside a Wainwright summit are called what they are: the same fell, a different top.
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Parking at Lodore Falls and Moss Force
Lodore Falls now points you to Kettlewell first, the nearest car park on foot. A Surprise View record for blue-badge bays the National Trust does not list has gone, Ashness Bridge car park has its proper name, and Moss Force's bus walk-in gives the real distance and climb.
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Stations, buses, boats and car parks on one map
The Getting there page now opens on one map of the four stations, nine bus routes, the boat landings and the car parks our walks start from. Switch any layer off, and choose a mark to open the page with its times or fees. Everything on the map is listed beside it by name too.
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Finding the walk next door
Place pages listed only six walks that start nearby; the rest of the list is now linked under the table. Route pages also link walks that start from the same car park, not just the ones that share a summit.
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Small fixes
Ennerdale Water now says about 45 m deep and 4 km long, in one place. Latrigg gets a height answer, the Marilyns page gives the society's dated count, route maps get a heading, the bus page says where the times are, and By bike adds TransPennine Express.
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Getting there, on one page
A new Getting there page answers the first question a walker without a car asks, “Can I get to the fells by train?”, then points to the train, bus, parking, boat and new By bike guides. It replaces Buses in the menu.
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Three walks after a desk review
The Buttermere ridge anti-clockwise is now the full loop I walked, back to its start: 12.9 km and 970 m. Fleetwith Edge asks you to decide before the steep part, not after. A mapped shelter says it has not been checked, and the buggy line no longer calls ground I have walked unassessed.
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Saying things once
Pages that told you the 77’s last day three times, or that a parking fee was not verified twice, now say it once, where it belongs. Five place pages lose a nearest-station line that their Getting there section already gave.
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Rannerdale bluebells on a phone
The bluebells map now opens on the valley, not the lake, and you can swipe or use the keyboard to move it. The car park gives its what3words, and the page says plainly that our planned loop is a different walk from Keswick Tourism’s.
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Place pages read in one pass
Each place page now has one list of walks and one “Getting there” section, with parking, buses and the overnight rules together, instead of the same ground spread over several cards. Nothing on them changed except where it sits; on the waterfall pages the map stays near the top.
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The waterfalls page on a phone
The list of sections at the top of the waterfalls page took up 40% of a phone screen once it stuck. It is now a single line you swipe along, and the section you are reading stays in view.
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Grades say what they rest on, the same way everywhere
Every band now says whether I graded it on the ground, it is our judgement from the map and the route’s record, or it is estimated from the map. An exposure the map suggests says so and never counts towards the overall grade; where space is short it reads “not assessed”.
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Four walks after a desk review
Wetherlam by Birk Fell now shows hands for a few steps beside Wetherlam Edge, and its way off from the top is the south ridge, not back down the rock. Castle Crag’s top is loose slate. Derwentwater warns that the Chinese Bridge boardwalk floods after heavy rain. Alcock Tarn names its two A591 crossings.
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Buses and parking
On a loop that starts a walk away from the bus stop, the bus line now counts the walk back too. Tilberthwaite is two car parks: the National Trust’s, free, and the National Park’s, paid. Hodge Close is private. Route parking cards no longer quote a distance to another walk’s start. The boat page’s walks from the water are back, with Brant Fell from Bowness Pier.
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New photos, and a first video
Red Pike, High Stile and High Crag have new photos of their tops, from my walk along the ridge on 17 October. Thirteen place pages have my photos at the top for the first time, from Bowness to Wasdale, and Stickle Tarn has a short clip of the tarn and Stickle Ghyll. The places page now links the waterfalls map.
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Two new walks
Black Combe from Whicham, the short way up and back the same way from the layby, and Brant Fell from Bowness, a loop from the pier to the Post Knott viewpoint and the top. Both are planned from the map and say so.
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Grades say what they rest on
Where a walk’s hardest part is a tie, the card now names every axis in it, not only the first. A dog panel that judges exposure from the map alone says so. No grade changed.
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Corrections
The essentials on three routes printed web codes where a space or an accented letter belonged. Eighteen route notes lose a reassuring “safe”. The Strava-matched count is 171 of the 214 Wainwrights, the same as my own.
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What you pass on the way
Twenty-eight waterfalls, bridges, viewpoints and landmarks now have a card inside the stage of the directions where you reach them, with a mark on the height profile: how far in and how high, the gates before it, how a waterfall is running today, when the sun is on it where the terrain allows, and one line from the National Trust, the National Park or another named source.
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Your fell log, both ways
Hikes Today’s My fells can now open your log on the hikes.guide logbook, which shows what would change and adds nothing until you choose Bring it in. Our analytics now drops the part of any address after a #, which is where a log travels, on both sites.
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Corrections
Two planned routes lose wording that reassured about ground nobody has walked, and eleven summaries say their steepest pitch is measured over 250 m. The fell pages’ hazard note names its sources. Pages about the 77 say it returns on 22 March 2027.
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Route pages in decision order
Route pages now run in the order you decide in: the warnings first, under “Before you choose”, then today’s conditions, then the map and directions. The “About this walk” box is gone: its opening line sits under the photo, and a Hardest part line joins the facts at a glance. On Cat Bells the map comes about a screen and a half sooner on a phone.
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Hikes Today is easier to read
The app’s text now grows with your phone’s text size, small grey print where it mattered is normal text, and a walk’s description comes before its buttons. In the evening, when it is too late to start any walk on your list, it says so and calls them walks to plan for another day.
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Corrections
The 77 bus says on every comparison table and card that 1 November is its last day this year. The pier walks are back on the boat page, with Maiden Moor and High Spy among them. The eight new routes gain a line on where you are most likely to go wrong, Little Dale no longer names two gates the line passes beside, and the bluebell gate is about 25 minutes from Cinderdale Common. The logbook’s Open in Hikes Today button now opens the app at hikes.today.
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Nine new walks
The Buttermere Ridge Anti-Clockwise, walked on 17 October: up the red scree to Red Pike and down Gamlin End. Eight planned lines: Dow Crag without the Old Man, The Tilberthwaite Birketts, Wetherlam by Birk Fell and Little Dale Horseshoe, then Fleetwith Edge and Haystacks, Maiden Moor and High Spy, Newlands Hause to the Coledale Tops, and Red Pike by Scale Force. Each has its warnings, ways off and essentials. The planned ones say so.
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Shorter fell pages
On fell pages with my Strava hikes, each hike now shows three small photos with the rest a tap away, instead of every photo at full size. The block sits under the field notes. Cat Bells drops from 36 phone screens to 28, and its conditions now start on screen 5, not 14. Skiddaw halves.
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Route pages
Walks that start at a railway station lead their getting-there section with the train. Planned routes give an estimated time, not a typical one. Most route pages now link the walks from the places nearby, headed so. A walked route says so in its byline, and a start no bus serves says that first. Every GPX download now carries its page’s title. The Wasdale Explorer bus row gives the operator’s own season.
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Corrections
Red Screes says which Kilnshaw Chimney it climbs, the walkers’ path rather than the climbers’ gully. Round Kirk Fell, Humphrey Head and Black Combe gain the land managers’ own warnings. Ennerdale names its scramble below Angler’s Crag and its fords, and Stickle Tarn warns of the unbridged crossing by the dam. The Old Man of Coniston’s route goes through a gate, not over a stile, and Bowness Knott gives its charges. Wasdale Head’s car park takes the National Trust’s name. The Wainwright count is 171 of 214.
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Calmer route, fell and place pages
Route, fell and place pages lose most of their boxes: sections are plain, and the one box left on a route or fell page is the one with the warnings. The bar of section links is down to five, in the order the page runs, and Share and Compare are now plain links, so Download GPX is the one button that stands out.
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Hikes Today in the privacy policy
The privacy page now has a section for the Hikes Today app: what it keeps on your phone, what it fetches and from where, and what its analytics count. The app links to it from the foot of Today, and it no longer lets the part of an address after a # reach the analytics, which is where a fell log travels from hikes.guide.
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Corrections
Four of the new walks give their climb to the same round figure as their own heights, Castle Crag's dog note uses today's wording, and two knee labels match their tracks. The Cinderdale Common parking note names the bluebell walk that starts there, and four waterfalls (Skelwith Force, Stanley Ghyll Force, Lodore Falls and Galleny Force) sit at their right place for the rain forecast.
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Six new walks
Alcock Tarn from Grasmere, Castle Crag from Rosthwaite, Dodd from Dodd Wood, the Rannerdale bluebell valley and Rannerdale Knotts, Humphrey Head from Kents Bank station and Scout Scar from Kendal. Each is graded on the same five axes as every other walk, and says whether Lee has walked it, in part or not yet. All six are in the Hikes Today app, with offline maps.
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Winter buses on the short-days walks
The 77, 509, 553 and the UB1 and UB2 do not run from 2 November to 21 March. Walks reached by those buses now say so on the short-winter-days list instead of offering a bus that will not come, and the bus line returns on 22 March 2027.
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Clearer labels and fixes
Dog and knee labels now say they come from what is mapped. A bus stop's distance says it is a walk. Facilities with no name print what they are. A town start's fallback names the town's own car parks. The Grange-over-Sands parking is corrected, the pier walks are back on the boats page, and the accessibility statement says what the outside audit did and did not cover.
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Where to see the Rannerdale bluebells
A new page maps the bluebell valley beside Crummock Water: where the flowers grow, five places to see them from, when they flower, the National Trust's request to stay on the path, and where to park or catch the bus. The ridge on the map is our own GPS track. Rannerdale bluebells →
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Ten new walks
The Old Man of Coniston up and down from Coniston, the full circuit of Derwentwater from Keswick, round Ennerdale Water, round Kirk Fell from Wasdale Head, Red Screes from Kirkstone Pass by Kilnshaw Chimney, Stickle Tarn from New Dungeon Ghyll, Silver How from Grasmere, Rannerdale Knotts from Buttermere, Black Combe from Silecroft station and Whitbarrow Scar from Witherslack. Each is graded on the same five axes as every other walk, and says whether Lee has walked it, in part or not yet.
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Easier to read and to use with a keyboard or screen reader
An accessibility review of 35 pages found real problems, now fixed: faint text, including a water-safety warning that was almost unreadable in dark mode; an hourly weather strip screen readers could not step through; bag buttons sitting inside fell links on the lists; filter counts that were not announced; and a missing skip link on fell and route pages. A new Accessibility page says what was checked, what is known not to work well yet, and how to report a problem.
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Fells linked where they are named
Every fell page's list cards now link to the list hubs it is on, the Birketts list names the five tops without a page of their own, and ten feature pages link the fells they mention on first mention. The page data now gives the Lake District National Park its correct reference, which had pointed at an unrelated entry on 670 pages, and five fells no longer link to ambiguous encyclopedia pages.
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Six questions walkers ask, answered
New answers on the lakes page (which lakes you can walk round, paddleboarding, swimming), the navigation guide (which OS maps cover the Lakes, whether Google Maps works on the fells) and the car-park page (where the crowds go, from the National Park's own figures). Every lake's boating and swimming lines were checked against the National Park's access table and the landowners' pages: boating on Buttermere and Crummock Water is suspended for now, Windermere's limit is 10 knots, registration is for Windermere only, and Esthwaite is listed as a private fishery.
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Hampsfell's way off the top, and planned walks named as Lee's
The Grange-over-Sands to Hampsfell walk now says which of the five mapped paths leaving the Hospice the line takes, and a planned walk now says it is not yet walked by Lee rather than by us. In Hikes Today every walk, the new one included, now has a map that can be kept on the phone for testers.
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Grange-over-Sands to Hampsfell
A new short walk from Grange-over-Sands up to the Hospice on Hampsfell, one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells: a 5.3 km loop with 221 m of ascent, planned from the map and not yet walked. The walks map now says what it is, a map of every route we have mapped, some walked by Lee and some planned, rather than a map of recorded walks.
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Dates that mean what they say
Pages that showed the day the site was last built as their Updated or Reviewed date now show when their words or data really changed, or no date where there is no honest one. The editorial standards page says what we means on a one-person site, and first-hand lines say Lee walked. Birketts from Carrock Fell is walked in part, the rescue report shows its licence, and the route sitemap carries each route's last real change.
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Scafell Pike's numbers, and the 555 between the towns
The Scafell Pike page now says how the walkers' routes grade since the steepness change (Wasdale and Helvellyn by Swirls Severe, Skiddaw via Ullock Pike Hard), and gives our own 8 km and 915 m for the Wasdale route in place of a guidebook figure. The 555 page lists journeys a day, the first bus and the usual time between Kendal, Windermere, Ambleside, Grasmere and Keswick. The buses hub puts the routes first.
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A map link on every walk, and walks that join up
Every route page has a Map link beside Download GPX. Walks that start or finish where another does now link each other, so the Wray Castle loop links the walk from Ambleside. Rydal Water says you can start the round at the White Moss bus stop, Wray Castle names the Green Cruise until 1 November, Aira Force gives the train and bus from Penrith, and the Marilyns page answers how many are Wainwrights.
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Walks for short winter days
A new collection lists the walks that, started at 10:00 at a steady pace, finish with at least an hour of daylight left on the earliest sunsets of late October to December, grouped by when you would be back. The page says how the list is chosen, and that the sunset is the almanac's for a flat horizon, not when the sun drops behind the fells. Scrambles are left off.
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Hikes Today marks your milestones
My fells now notes your first Wainwright, then 10, 25, 50, 100, 150 and all 214, and each of the seven areas completed, with a small card you can dismiss and an optional share card that leaves out totals and dates unless you add them. A log brought across from another app gets one quiet summary, never a burst of celebrations. Long pages for buses, events and walks by difficulty gain jump links.
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Hikes Today: three picks for everyone, and your collections on Today
Three for you today now shows to walkers with no log too: the best day out, the walk with the most daylight to spare and the closest that fits, each checked against your essentials, today's conditions and the light. If you follow a collection, Today says how far through it you are and which remaining walk fits today, or that none does.
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Walking times and climbs agree everywhere
Month pages, event pairings, waterfall walks, things-to-do picks and the EV charging page now give a walk's time as its route page does, a range from a fast to a steady pace, and its current distance and climb. Six route summaries and three place answers have the new climbs. Viewpoint cards label their figures as the short way up, so they are not read as the linked walk's.
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Hikes Today picks three walks for you
If you keep a log, Today now suggests three walks that fit your choices: the one with the most fells not yet in your log, the best day out on the tops, and the shortest with a new fell. Each is checked against your essentials, today's conditions and the daylight left, and says why in one line. Walk pages put Save and Keep near the top, cards are shorter, and walks without a photo have a smaller drawn header.
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Climbs and times now include every summit
A route's total climb now reads the same summit heights as its stages, so the two add up: 143 routes' climbs rose, by a median of 28 m, and 55 time ranges moved. Fell answers and route summaries give the new figures, and Skiddaw's note no longer calls Scafell Pike the longer day. Pavey Ark's top now counts on the Langdale Pikes Round.
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Road stretches, access and buggy notes say what we know
High Snockrigg's road stretches carry the Highway Code's advice for roads without a pavement. A stretch not mapped as a right of way now says to check the access maps. Elevation profiles explain that a top can read a little below its listed height, the dog, buggy and knees heading names only the answers a page gives, and buggy notes no longer mention stiles where none is mapped.
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Hikes Today: your fells on a map, outings and where to park
My fells now has a map of all 214 Wainwrights, logged and not logged, with the walks that include any fell you tap. You can record an outing after a walk, see a short recap, follow a collection and make a share card. Getting there shows a map of the places to park near each start, with directions in your phone's maps app. Saved walks, the logbook and guest pages are clearer and calmer in the ways testers asked for.
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Car parks listed before the roadside
Where a car park is within half a kilometre of a walk's start, route pages now list it before lay-bys, verges and roadside spots, as the National Park asks. On four Buttermere walks the village car park now comes first, and at Seathwaite, Mosedale and the west side of Coniston the car park leads too.
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Buttermere and Honister buses run every day until 1 November
Pages served by the 77 and 77A said the buses ran only at weekends in late October. The operator's timetable runs them every day until 1 November, so those pages now give the times we checked for every day of the week, and no longer say the service is not daily. The dates are read from the bus timetable published on 12 October.
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Hikes Today: bring your log across, and choose light or dark
If you keep your Wainwrights in another app, paste the log it shares into My fells and Hikes Today matches each line to a fell, shows you what it found and what it could not, and adds only what you confirm. Nothing is removed, the earlier date wins, and the text never leaves your phone. My fells also has a light or dark choice; Auto follows your phone as before.
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Fell pages give the same walking times as their routes
A fell page's shortest way up, its fell card and its own answers now give the walking time as the route page does: a range from a fast to a steady pace, stops not included. High Snockrigg's way back now says it is the way out, and how far it is to the road.
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Hikes Today has a new look
The app is redrawn: four tabs (Today, My walk, Saved, My fells), bigger photos, clearer cards and a dark mode that matches. Where a walk has no photo yet, it shows a drawn skyline, labelled as a drawing. Nothing it tells you has changed: every essential you choose is still met, conditions are still read from the highest scored top, and your fell log still lives only on your phone.
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Walking times at a steady pace, and parking above Hartsop
Walking times now run from a fast to a steady pace, and the time filters use the steady end, so some walks move up a band. Route pages, collection cards, share cards and Hikes Today all show the same range. Ways off are added on four more walks, from Longsleddale to Windermere. Kirkstone Pass and Little Langdale parking is checked, and the Hartsop village car park is marked as an optional donation. A bus stop whose last bus is not yet checked against the current timetable now says so.
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Longsleddale over Branstree, winter last buses, and parking checked
The Longsleddale Round now follows Lee's line over Branstree from Hollow Moor, six Wainwrights, marked walked in part. The Kentmere Horseshoe leaves the Garburn track at about 2.6 km. Honister Pass and Kentmere parking is checked, and the slate mine's card says pay at the mine. From 2 November the checked last buses at Haverthwaite, Grange-over-Sands, Lindale and Newby Bridge follow the winter timetable; other stops say to check the timetable until the winter times are confirmed.
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Ways off on 11 more walks, and High Snockrigg from Buttermere
Eleven more walks now say, stage by stage, where you can leave the walk, from Three Dodds and the Wastwater shore to the Birketts north of Loweswater, Howtown to Patterdale and Knott Rigg. Each line says what the map shows and that it is not walked for this guide; crossings by stepping stones are left out. A new short planned route climbs High Snockrigg from Buttermere village: about 4 km out and back with 400 m of ascent, drawn from the map and not yet walked.
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Hikes Today: shared walk links keep their walk
When you open a shared walk, the address bar now keeps that walk, so copying it or reloading brings you back to the same walk. A link to a walk that is not in the app now says "This shared walk isn't available" with a way back to Today, instead of leaving another walk on screen, and if the walk list cannot load the app says so and offers to try again.
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Every bus named on the map panel and in the planner
The walks map's bus panel and the planner's bus line now name every service that stops at the walk's stop, as the fell and route pages do since build 227: the Aira Force line reads "the 508, 509, UB1 and UB2 stop at Matterdale", with the summer buses' last day beside them.
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Ways off on 27 more walks
Twenty-seven more walks now say, stage by stage, where you can leave the walk, from Brunt Knott and Orrest Head to Fairfield, Skiddaw, Hallin Fell, Friar's Crag and Scope End. On Fairfield, the Longsleddale round and Skiddaw these are Lee's own ways off, now shown on the stages they belong to. On planned walks each line says what the map shows and that it is not walked for this guide; where no mapped path leaves the line it says back or on. Haystacks gains Lee's way off between Brandreth and Grey Knotts.
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Buses and daylight through the clock change and into winter
Where a seasonal bus now runs only at weekends, route pages say so ("Saturday and Sunday only"), and "be off the top by" gives the earlier of the last bus and an hour before dusk. From 2 November, when the 77 and the other summer buses stop, pages stop printing their times, say the bus has stopped for the winter, drop the Bus badge on Fells by bus and leave those walks out of Hikes Today's Bus only. Collection ratings say the day they were made when today's conditions are not in.
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Route pages say what changed, not just when
The line under each route's title now reads, for example, "Route guide updated 11 October 2026: ways off added on stages 1-3". The change is read from the guide's own edit history, never written by hand, and Hikes Today names the same change when a walk kept on your phone needs updating.
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Poor-weather and dog lists only count grades set on the ground
Good walks in poor weather, the dog-friendly walks, and the Easy exposure only choice in the planner and Hikes Today now include a walk only when its exposure grade was set on the ground or editorially, never estimated from the map. Lee graded Helm Crag & Far Easedale and Watendlath from his walks, so they stay. No severe exposure still includes map estimates, and says so beside each walk.
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Bus lines name every bus that stops there
Fell, route and place pages used to name one bus at a stop. They now name every service our timetable stores hold for it, so Burthwaite Heights reads "The X4 and X5 stop at Dubwath turn". A seasonal bus is named only to the last day of its season, with that day printed beside it.
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Directions, parking and the parking map, corrected
Five direction words now match the route line (on the Ullswater Birketts, Harrop Pike, the Langdale Pikes Round, Swarth Fell and the Walla Crag round), and Sharp Edge's descent leaves the summit heading east. The Langdale Pikes Round's stage notes were reviewed against Lee's walk. Galleny Force and Hardknott Pass have checked parking, and every place page's parking-map link now opens a list of car parks.
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Hikes Today: a shared walk shows as itself
Every walk in Hikes Today has its own share page, so a link sent on WhatsApp, Facebook or X shows the walk's name, time, distance, climb and a photo of Lee's where there is one, and opens straight into the walk. Share this walk is on the walk view. The app also records which release each visit used, so the pilot can be read release by release.
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A way off on every stage of five big walks
Blencathra by Sharp Edge, Catbells to High Spy, the Coledale Round, Helvellyn by Striding and Swirral Edge and the Langdale Pikes Round now say, stage by stage, where you can leave the walk and where no way off is confirmed, in Lee's words. Each named place and direction was checked against the map.
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Path closures re-read, and Bassenthwaite Lake Station by bus
The footpath closure beside the road at Chapel Stile now runs until further notice, with a council order intended from 16 October, and the Whinlatter and Thornthwaite forestry closure runs to 11 May 2027 or earlier when the work finishes. Every other closure was re-checked against the National Park's notices on 11 October. The old Bassenthwaite Lake Station, now a cafe, gives its nearest bus: the X4 and X5 stop at Dubwath turn, 0.7 km away.
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Correction: 23 routes we had marked as walked
Twenty-three routes said 'walked by Lee' with no date. Lee checked each one: 13 are planned routes he has not walked, and 10 he has walked only in part. They now say so on their pages, in the walked counts, in the app and wherever they are named. For six of the ten, the page names the stretch his recorded walk did not cover. A route is now marked walked only on his recorded word.
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A map in Hikes Today
With a signal, My walk now shows the route on the same OpenTopoMap map the site uses, with each summit numbered in route order and named, and the summits listed under it. With no signal the app still draws the route line. Today's summit conditions also load again at hikes.today, which had been showing 'conditions not assessed'.
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Rate my route, easier to find and read
Rate my route now has its own card on Today, and its results come in separate cards: how it grades, summits, time and daylight, near your start, and our routes on the same ground. A walk name with an ampersand in the file now shows properly.
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Hikes Today when things go wrong
When no walk fits, Hikes Today now offers only changes it has counted, says how many walks each would show, and lets you undo them. Old or missing summit conditions are named with their date and a Try again, nothing waits for ever, and a walk kept on the phone is re-checked, so it says 'readable with no signal' only while every file is still there.
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Parking at Aira Force, Colwith Force, Duddon Valley and Eskdale
Aira Force's and Colwith Force's map points sit on the falls, the National Trust car park leads at Aira Force with its toilet and tearoom, and lay-bys named after distant fells now carry the road or bridge they are on. Duddon Valley's card starts at Seathwaite, the pin in the Newfield Inn's customer car park is retired, and Eskdale's St Catherine's car park is described as needing payment.
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Corrections from two outside reviews
The Birketts north of Loweswater names its three beck crossings at the top, Knott Rigg's walk in from the bus says it is up a road with no pavement, and its knees line names the 250 m it measures. Howtown's bus line no longer contradicts itself, a dog label reads 'Stiles on the line' where stiles outnumber gates, and the Braithwaite shop, Force Crag open days and Haweswater's visiting eagles are brought up to date.
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Parking notes at Aira Force and Colwith Force
Eight car park and lay-by notes around Aira Force, Dockray and Colwith Force now say where the parking is and how far the walk start is on foot, rather than giving a straight line to a summit. A parking card with room for one car now says '1 space'.
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Parking at Loughrigg Tarn, Derwentwater and Elter Water
Loughrigg Tarn's card no longer lists the two car parks by Grasmere lake, nearly 4 km away on foot, and the lay-by at Ellers Brow is named as one. Derwentwater's card always shows Keswick's Lakeside car park and its FAQ names it as one car park, and a pin on a private car park at Hawes End is retired. At Elter Water the NT car park leads, its 'if it is full' list stays in the village as the National Park advises, and the Britannia Inn is listed.
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Stock Ghyll Force, as walked
The Stock Ghyll Force walk now follows the way Lee walks it from the top footbridge, by the rock path and steps rather than over a ladder stile: 1.9 km and 89 m. Only gates are mapped on it now, so it joins the dog-friendly walks. Its directions are tightened.
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Two corrections from checking our sources
Holehird Gardens near Windermere is run by volunteers with no set entry fee; a contribution is asked. Braithwaite's Miles Without Stiles route is number 30, graded for some users.
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Rate a route of your own in Hikes Today
Choose a GPX file of a Lake District walk and the app grades it by the rules our own route pages use: distance, climb, time, steepness, the summits it reaches, this month's daylight, the nearest car park and bus stop, and our most similar route. Terrain, navigation and exposure say 'Not assessed from a file'. The file stays on your phone. A walk we do not hold can be suggested to Lee by email; nothing is published until he has walked it or it is labelled planned.
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Getting here, under every route's start
Each route page now has one line under its start naming the nearest car park we list and, where a bus serves the start, the bus and its stop, each with the distance the page already gives. Seasonal buses carry their last day.
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Smaller changes
Month pages draw a skyline where a recommended walk has no photograph yet, so the cards line up. Parking notes around Loughrigg Tarn and Derwentwater give the walk start on foot rather than a summit, and the Buttermere lake circuit names a way off read from the map.
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Weekend last buses on the bus page
The fell finder on the bus page gave a weekday last bus for about 90 fells whose buses (the 77, 77A and UB1) have run at weekends only since 26 September, and a few rows named one bus while giving another's time. It now uses the same dated wording as the fell pages.
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Who walked these: a line on twelve collection pages
Twelve walk collections, among them Thirlmere, Ullswater, Hawkshead, Windermere and Quick fells, now open with one line on what Lee has and has not walked there, each fact taken from his walked record or a route's own data. Where none of the routes is walked yet, the line says so.
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Walked or planned, wherever a route is named
A route named in a place page's text, on the places hub or in the by-train page's bus-return answer now says whether Lee has walked it or it is a planned line, as the route cards do. The routes hub dates its counts to the build.
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Overnight parking: the council's own order
The overnight parking pages now quote Westmorland and Furness Council's public spaces protection order for its own car parks, and the Miller Bridge answer says you need the council's written consent. Lay-bys print nothing, because the order does not cover them.
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Parking notes around Ullswater, Loweswater, Rydal, Braithwaite and Tarn Hows
Car park cards and notes give the nearest walk start on foot, the White Moss toilets (closed) are no longer promised, Howtown and Park Foot leave Ullswater's official car park list, and the Newlands Hause and Darling Fell pins carry plain names. The car-park note on how fast parking fills now uses the National Park's ticket figures.
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Corrections from our own page audit
We now read our pages against the public search quality guidelines. First fixes: only the Aira Force pier is closed on Ullswater, the 516 is not seasonal, Pooley Bridge says only that the 508 serves it, undated 'fills by mid-morning' lines are gone or carry their figure, and the by-train Fairfield Horseshoe journey no longer rides to Keswick and back.
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Smaller changes
Four routes (Binsey, Blea Tarn, the quick Catbells walk, Helvellyn via Swirls) say where to turn back, and four more (Slater Bridge, Wray Castle, the Grasmere and Loweswater circuits) name a way off read from the map. Ashness Bridge's walk no longer sends you onto the main road. Stonethwaite answers the camping question by the Langstrath pools, the water page points to United Utilities' postcode checker, and fell pages load their map data only when needed.
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New walk: the Birketts north of Loweswater
A 10.6 km loop with 652 m of climbing over seven Birketts north of Loweswater, from Darling Fell over Low Fell and Fellbarrow to Hatteringill Head, starting from a lay-by on the lane west of Darling Fell. It is a planned line drawn from the map and not yet walked for this guide, its heights come from a terrain model, and its grades are estimates until it is walked.
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Parking at Ullswater, Loweswater, Rydal Water and Braithwaite
Twenty car park notes by Ullswater, Loweswater, Rydal Water and Braithwaite now give the nearest walk start on foot rather than a straight line to a summit; one gave Hallin Fell, across the water and 13 km away on foot. The Kirkstile Inn's customer car park is no longer suggested as a fallback when Maggie's Bridge is full.
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Pages that reload less
Our scripts and stylesheets are now versioned by their own contents rather than by the date of each update, so a file that has not changed keeps its address and your browser keeps its copy. Returning to the site after an update now downloads only what actually changed.
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Lake District walks by effort and navigation
A new page puts every one of our walks in a four-by-four grid: how hard each is to walk against how hard it is to follow in cloud, in bands, with no scores. Each square lists its walks, and each walk says how its navigation grade was set. The finding: 14 walks look gentle but grade hard to follow, and all 14 are estimates from the map; none of the 70 walks graded on the ground is harder to follow than to walk. The data is downloadable.
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New walk: Knott Rigg and Ard Crags from Newlands Hause
A short ridge walk from the car park at the top of Newlands Pass: out along the ridge over Knott Rigg to Ard Crags and back the same way, 5.5 km with 337 m of climbing. It is a planned line drawn from the map and not yet walked for this guide, and its page says so; the grades are estimates until it is.
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Grid references and an OS Maps link on every car park
Every car park on the parking map now shows its OS grid reference and its latitude and longitude, each with a copy button, so you can paste it into a mapping app. An Open in OS Maps link drops a pin on the car park in OS Maps, ready to plan a route from it.
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No overnight stays at Brown Howe, Glencoyne and Glenridding pier
The council's public spaces order No. 008 also covers three more of the car parks we list: Brown Howe on Coniston Water, Glencoyne by Ullswater and the Ullswater Steamers car park at Glenridding pier. Their place pages, Brown Howe's trailhead page and our sleeping-in-your-car page now say so in the order's words, and each rule shows the date we read it.
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Two walks regraded from the ground
Having walked them, we have graded navigation on Grasmere and Easdale Tarn as Moderate and on Hallin Fell as Easy; both were map estimates of Hard. Each is now Moderate overall, and both now appear among the easy family walks.
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Crummock Water and Cleator Moor car parks
The walk round Crummock Water is about 8 miles (13 km), not 9, and the Lanthwaite Wood car park is at the lake's north end. A verge car park is now named for where it is, on Cinderdale Common, and marked free. In Cleator Moor, four town-centre car parks that shared one name are now named after their streets.
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EV chargers in Windermere, Bowness and Keswick
The EV charging page adds four places to charge, each checked against the operator's own page: InstaVolt at Booths in Windermere, and the Charge My Street network at Broad Street and Rayrigg Road car parks in Windermere and at Skiddaw Street car park in Keswick. Booths in Keswick now cites InstaVolt's own listing. The Keswick and Windermere pages name them. The page's 'our study' date had drifted to 9 October over figures gathered on 6 August; it now says 6 August.
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Parking at Stickle Tarn, Haweswater, Glenridding and Crummock Water
Haweswater's lane and hotel are on the eastern shore, not the western, and the walk round the reservoir is about 10 miles, not 6. Stickle Tarn is about 2 miles there and back, not 2.5. At Glenridding you pay by phone with RingGo, not PayByPhone; we have cut a line saying overnight parking is allowed, which had no source; the free-parking answer names the lay-bys on the A592; and Beckside car park gets a list of nearby places to try when it is full, as Mardale Head does. Eight car park notes by Ullswater and Crummock Water now give the nearest walk start on foot.
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No overnight stays at Mardale Head
The council's public spaces order No. 008, in force since 18 March 2026, adds Haweswater to the places where nobody may stay overnight in a vehicle or tent without consent. Its map puts the Mardale Head car park inside the area, and the order reads consent there as the landowner's, United Utilities. The Haweswater page and our sleeping-in-your-car page now say so, quoting the order. Glenridding's Beckside car park now shows the National Park Authority's own line on overnight parking.
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Fell pages now agree with their route cards on what is hardest
Each fell page answers 'How hard is it?' by naming the hardest thing about its easiest route. On 136 of 318 fells that answer named a different thing from the route's own card, often an exposure grade we had estimated from the map rather than judged on the ground. The answer now names what the card names, lists every tied grade, and says 'Not assessed' wherever the route page does. No grade has changed.
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Corrections on our ten busiest pages
We checked the ten most-read pages line by line. Fixes: 33 route pages said 'one of the five were'; three route photos were credited 'Photo: Photo:'; seven route summaries now say their steepest figure is over 250 m, and six route warnings do the same; the Coledale Round's walk from the Braithwaite bus stop is 720 m with 87 m of climb, not 'a couple of hundred metres'; and the Walking in Bad Weather page showed the wrong 'updated' date. The poor-weather collection now says what its rule is: navigation and exposure both graded Easy or Moderate, which is not the same as no edges or no featureless ground.
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Car park names that say where they are
Four parking records contradicted themselves. Threlkeld village no longer offers '(free/donation)' over a note saying there is no public car park; a car park named after Gategill Fell Top, 2.1 km away, is now Threlkeld Cricket Club; Noble Knott at Whinlatter was listed twice; and the 78 bus note now says the walk from Seatoller is about 2 km up the lane rather than 20 minutes.
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Correction: overnight motorhome parking in Windermere and Bowness
Our sleeping-in-your-car page said no public land manager permits overnight parking anywhere in the National Park. That was wrong. Westmorland and Furness Council sells motorhomes an overnight stay, 8pm to 8am, at Rayrigg Meadow in Windermere and Braithwaite Fold in Bowness, with no camping. The page and those car parks' cards now say so in the council's words, and three Bowness car parks show the council's ban.
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Howtown to Patterdale: no parking at Howtown, and the Ullswater Way named
The Howtown route now opens its parking with what the Ullswater steamers say: there is no car parking at Howtown, so park in Glenridding and take the boat. It also names the Ullswater Way, which the route follows for almost all of its length, with a link to the National Park's page. Planned routes whose terrain or exposure has not been assessed now say their overall grade is partly from map estimates.
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Ullswater bus season and two route corrections
The UB1 and UB2 season dates are back on the Ullswater cards, checked against the operator's timetable: weekends and bank holidays to 1 November. Skiddaw Middle Top's way down now says which path to take, and Skiddaw by Ullock Pike and Dodd has its turns back where they were walked: the gate onto the ridge, the right turn onto the forest track, and the false short-cut below Dodd. Dodd Wood car park is pay on exit, not pay and display.
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Parking checked at Portinscale and Grasmere
Portinscale's parking no longer lists three spots on the A66 bypass and at Crosthwaite church, which now carry their real names. Grasmere's lake page adds the free Loughrigg Fell car park, and White Moss shows its toilets on the card.
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Our own photo on Angle Tarn
Angle Tarn above Patterdale now opens with our own photograph from the path above the tarn, its two islets in view. The place had no photo before.
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Place pages say parking once
On 53 place pages the hand-written parking paragraph no longer repeats the car parks the parking cards already list with checked detail; it links to them instead. What the cards cannot say stays: where there is no free parking, which car parks fill early, which one suits which walk, and where to go when they are full.
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The Fairfield Horseshoe: the wall is on your right
Going clockwise round the Fairfield Horseshoe, the wall on the way back down is on your right, not your left as the route said: the map and our own walk agree. The route now also counts a second walk of ours on its east arm, and marks the short down-climb by Sweden Crag.
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Parking checked at High Dam and Stanley Ghyll Force
High Dam's car park is shown as the National Park's, with its RingGo code and the no-overnight rule. Stanley Ghyll Force's parking now shows the valley car parks first, not lay-bys up on Birker Fell, and St Catherine's Church notes that the short way to the falls crosses the Esk on stepping stones, so go round by Trough House Bridge when the river is up.
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Parking checked at Pooley Bridge, Wast Water, Blea Tarn and Coniston Water
Wast Water's parking now shows the National Trust car parks at Overbeck and Wasdale Head, and the page says the summer Wasdale Explorer bus runs. Pooley Bridge's village car park by the toilets is listed once, as free. Coniston Water's card shows the lakeshore car parks instead of the village's, Torver's distances are measured on foot round the lake, and campsite toilets for customers only are no longer listed as public.
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Which stretches we walked, route by route
Latrigg, Loughrigg Terrace & Rydal Water, Hallin Fell and Birketts by Gowbarrow now mark the stretches we did not walk for this guide, so 'walked in part' says which part. Gowbarrow Fell & Little Mell Fell and Birketts by Gowbarrow have their stage notes checked against the line, and Brock Crags & Place Fell and Angletarn Pikes take their review's corrections. Pages no longer promise solitude or that you won't see another soul.
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Our own summit photos on four Back o' Skiddaw fells
Carrock Fell, High Pike, Knott and Great Calva now open with our own photographs from the summits, taken on 29 September in thick mist, in place of borrowed pictures (Knott had none). The homepage's Show fells button is readable again, and the poor-weather list now says plainly that a card marked Planned is graded from the map.
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Compare walks side by side
Every route page now has a Compare button. Pick up to four walks and see them side by side: distance, climb, time, the five grades, where each starts, parking, buses, and the latest you can start this month with daylight to spare. The comparison is one link, so a group can look at the same shortlist before choosing.
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Parking checked at Bassenthwaite Lake, Easedale Tarn, Scale Force and Buttermere
Bassenthwaite Lake's parking now lists the lake's own car parks, including Ouse Bridge at the north end, instead of lay-bys a kilometre from the water, and its page puts Ullock Pike and the A591 on the east side. Two car parks that were listed twice are gone (Kirkstone Pass and Glencoyne Bay), lay-bys now rank as lay-bys, and Hartside summit is marked as a free car park.
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Route corrections: Latrigg, Loughrigg Terrace, the Coniston Horseshoe
Latrigg and Loughrigg Terrace & Rydal Water now say which stretches were walked for this guide and which were not, and correct where the routes meet the bridleway and Red Bank Road. Loughrigg Terrace names the ford near 6.2 km and says it passes the Rothay stepping stones without crossing them. The method page now says plainly that, counting stops, an hour on the move became about an hour and a quarter.
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Dog cards say when exposure is a map estimate
On many dog-friendly walks the exposure grade comes from the map, not from walking it. The dog card now says so in words, for example 'Estimated Easy from the map: no mapped crags on or beside the line', and the dog-friendly list says how many of its walks that applies to. Route notes graded from slope alone now say so too.
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Dated bus lines for Greendale and Brothers Water
The Greendale Horseshoe now says when the Wasdale Explorer stopped at Greendale this year (weekends and bank holidays, 2 May to 31 August) and that it is not running now. Patterdale to Hartsop and Brothers Water says its early way off on the 508 at Hartsop is on the summer timetable, which runs to 1 November, so check the winter timetable first.
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Help us test Hikes Today
The home page now invites you to try Hikes Today, our small app that picks three Lake District walks to fit your day from where you are starting and how long you have. It is new and in testing, and we would like to hear what you think.
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The Coniston Horseshoe, walked in part
The Coniston Horseshoe now says Lee walked it in part: from Miners Bridge over Wetherlam to Dow Crag, but not the first kilometre or the southern end over Buck Pike, Brown Pike and down the Walna Scar Road. The Black Sails, Calf Cove and Walna Scar directions are corrected, and the direction of travel is named rightly. The Coniston Horseshoe →
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Share a walk from its page
Every route page now has a Share this walk button, beside Download GPX and again at the end of the directions. On a phone it opens your share sheet with the walk's name, distance, climb and time; on a computer it copies the link. Haystacks →
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Walks from a pier are back on the boat page
The boat page lists the walks you can start from a pier again, now 34 with the four new Ullswater walks from Howtown and Glenridding, each with its distance on foot from the landing. Walks you can start from a pier →
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Brothers Water and Ennerdale parking checked
Brothers Water's lay-bys are named for where they are, not for fells a mile away, and Cow Bridge names its operator. Ennerdale's point sits on the lake, Bowness Knott carries its road warning, and Bleach Green says it holds about 25 cars and to try Bowness Knott if it is full. Brothers Water →
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Five new walks, four of them gentle
Four gentle walks around Patterdale and Glenridding: Howtown back to Patterdale along Ullswater with the boat out, Lanty's Tarn and Glenridding Beck, Patterdale to Hartsop and Brothers Water, and out to Silver Point. And the Greendale Horseshoe over Middle Fell, Seatallan and Buckbarrow in 8.6 km. All five are planned lines, labelled so, until Lee has walked them. Lanty's Tarn and Glenridding Beck →
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Haystacks, as Lee walked it
The Haystacks route now describes the way down Lee took, beside the wall from Grey Knotts to the slate mine, not by the Drum House. The climb names the Drum House, Dubs Bottom is named correctly, both ways off are corrected, and the last-bus turnaround is 15:38. Great Gable from Honister takes the same descent. Haystacks →
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Thirlmere and Angle Tarn parking checked
Thirlmere's car parks are named as their operators name them, with Station Coppice first when Swirls is full and Fisher Crag folded into Swirls. Angle Tarn gets Hartsop village back as the shorter start, about 2.5 km and 380 m of climb, and the lay-bys by Bridgend and Cow Bridge are named for where they are. Angle Tarn →
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Each area page lists its walks
The seven 'Walking the ... Fells' pages now list every walk in that area as plain links, two columns on a wide screen and one on a phone, so a route is never more than two clicks from the home page. Walks in the Central Fells →
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Hikes Today: daylight on the shortest day of the month
The app's daylight line now uses the shortest day of each month at the start, in clock time, so after the clocks go back it is never late: 'By the end of October, daylight at the start runs from 07:12 to 16:38'. Each walk also offers its GPX for your own mapping app.
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The months, on one page
The twelve month pages are now one page with a section for each month: the weather figures, the light, the four walks picked for it, the car parks and the events. The old month addresses take you to the right section. The Lakes, month by month →
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Steepness is graded on the steepest 500 m
Steepness is now graded on the steepest 500 m of a route, not 250 m, so one short steep pitch no longer decides the grade. 58 routes change steepness band and 43 change their overall grade; Catbells the short way is now Hard overall, not Severe. The shaded elevation profiles use the same 500 m measure. Catbells, the short way →
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Catbells, Maiden Moor and High Spy, as Lee walked it
The Catbells, Maiden Moor and High Spy route now follows the line Lee walked: the out-and-back south of High Spy is gone and the finish takes the lane, making it 12.6 km and 704 m. The scramble note is in his words, and the steep pitched descent from Hause Gate is named in the last stage. Catbells, Maiden Moor and High Spy →
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Route warnings on more fell pages
Fells with no hazard card of their own now also quote the warnings from a planned route that crosses them, headed as from a planned route, not walked. A warning about a neighbouring top now stays with that top. Great How →
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Shorter fell pages, and stays folded
Where a fell page compares its routes in a table, the route cards below no longer repeat the same figures and the side parking card is gone; the map summary links to parking instead of naming one car park. Keswick, Ambleside and Grasmere show six places to stay, with the rest a tap away. Keswick →
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Stock Ghyll Force, Esthwaite and Hawkshead parking
Stock Ghyll Force no longer lists a Grasmere car park and its point is now at the falls. Esthwaite Water's page names its lakeshore pay-and-display, Hawkshead's main car park shows the National Park Authority as its operator, and two lay-bys near Outgate carry Outgate's name. Stock Ghyll Force →
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Seat How diversion, and rail credits
The Whinlatter Forest route now carries Forestry England's notice that the Seat How Summit trail is diverted, and quotes their waymarker colours. The live train boards and reliability figures now credit National Rail Enquiries and Rail Delivery Group. By train →
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Whinlatter: Lord's Seat and Barf trails diverted
Forestry England says the Lord's Seat and Barf trails at Whinlatter are diverted (their update of 1 October). The Whinlatter Loop now says so beside its download and on the fell pages it crosses, with a link to their page: follow the diversion signs. Our GPX has not been checked against the diversion. Whinlatter Loop →
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Whinlatter Forest's waymarkers, from Forestry England
The Whinlatter Forest route now says which colour of waymarker Forestry England uses on each of its own trails, with their page and the date we read it, and that those markers follow their trails, not this route. Whinlatter Forest →
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Fells with no route say so plainly
A fell with no route of ours now heads its routes section 'No route guide yet', or 'Routes near' when it lists nearby starts, instead of 'Routes up'. A warning about one top on a route now stays with that top instead of appearing on its neighbours. Little Dodd →
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Tidier route pages, and bigger share pictures
Route pages now have one Related routes section instead of two overlapping lists, and the download sits at the end of the directions. Pages with one of Lee's own photos share it as a wide picture when you post a link. Whinlatter Loop →
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Hawkshead and Esthwaite parking notes, and the UB1
Car park notes around Hawkshead and Esthwaite Water now give the distance to a walk start, not a summit, and Hawkshead's main car park lists its payment code, toilets and chargers. The UB1 hopper card no longer gives exact dates its season has not confirmed. Hawkshead →
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Walk dates from the walks themselves
Seventeen routes gave July 2026 as the month walked, which was only when the track was exported. They now carry the date of the walk that covers the line, from Lee's own records, as far back as April 2023. Twenty-three walks with no matching record show no month at all rather than a guessed one. All routes →
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Helvellyn by the edges says what was walked
The Striding Edge route now says at the top of its grades that Striding Edge and Swirral Edge were not walked for this guide, its terrain and navigation grades are marked as judged from the map, and its three ways off say they come from the map. A grade elsewhere says it was set on the ground only where the ground was walked. Helvellyn by the edges →
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Route warnings on 165 fell pages
A fell with no hazard card of its own now quotes the warnings and way off from the walked route that crosses it, word for word, so they are on the page where you choose the walk. Whinlatter Top →
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Bus stop pages offer walks you can reach
A bus stop page now lists a walk only when it starts within a kilometre of the stop, as the crow flies. Some had listed walks starting up to 17 km away. Lake District buses →
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How we grade and time our routes
A new page explains the grades and timings every route page uses, so route pages can say less: the repeated method notes are shorter or open on a tap, and the sunrise-on-the-tops times keep their one plain sentence in view. There is also a feed of what is new, for feed readers. How we grade and time routes →
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The terrain panel no longer reads like a way up
On fell pages with a terrain panel, the panel measures a straight line from the nearest mapped path to the summit. It now says plainly that we have not checked a way from that path to the top, and that the figures come from a terrain model, not a route. Where the line crosses crag, as on Pen at about 67 degrees, it says it is not a way up. 'Pick your line with care' is gone. Pen →
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Fell heights in feet now match the hill database
Feet were being converted from heights already rounded to the metre, so 125 fells showed a figure a foot or two out. They now come from the Database of British and Irish Hills' own heights, and a height ending in half a metre rounds up. Three pages that showed another fell's summary now show none until their own is written. Looking Steads →
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Fell summaries without the crowd talk
Lines calling a fell quiet, rarely visited or away from the crowds have been cut from 167 summaries: nothing measured them. Parent fells now list their subsidiary tops with heights and the routes that cross them, and list badges are labelled as selected lists. Yewbarrow →
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Nearest starts stay on your side of the lake
Fells with no route of ours suggest the nearest route starts. A start across a lake is no longer offered, and starts in the fell's own area come first. Finsthwaite Heights, whose only suggestion was across Windermere, now says simply that there is no route guide yet. Finsthwaite Heights →
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Boat How, Illgill Head and Whin Rigg, renamed
The route called Boat How, Great Bank and Wainwrights passes about 150 m from Great Bank's summit without crossing it, so it now carries the tops it reaches: Boat How, Illgill Head and Whin Rigg. Its address and GPX are unchanged. Boat How, Illgill Head and Whin Rigg →
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Windermere, Bowness and Langdale car parks under their real names
Car parks filed under a nearby fell now carry the name you will see on the ground: the station car park at Windermere, the Windermere Quays car park in Bowness, the Walthwaite car parks in Elterwater and the valley road verge in Great Langdale. Seven that were residents' parking, the lakeside promenade or points with no car park mapped are gone. Windermere →
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Aira Force: the right footbridge, and what Lee walked
The Aira Force and Gowbarrow route now names the footbridge beside High Force, about 0.3 km above the falls, and the stepping stones and gate in the wood. The guest pages and the app now say plainly that Lee has not walked the terrace path past Yew Crag and the Memorial Seat. Aira Force and Gowbarrow →
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Last buses in one place on route pages
On route pages, the 'If the parking is full' card names the bus stop and how far it is, then points to the Buses section for the return times instead of repeating them. Aira Force and Gowbarrow →
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Getting there, in the same place on every page
Every fell, route and place page now ends its parking and transport section with one line to the buses, the parking map, travel by train and travel by boat. Fell and route pages show the three nearest places to park first; the rest sit under a fold, so the list no longer pushes the page down. Catbells →
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Aira Force and Gowbarrow Fell, checked against the ground
The Aira Force and Gowbarrow route now says the climb is steepest above the wood, not in it, and that the slopes drop away on the left of the terrace path, not the right, both read from the track and the ground. The descent is now described as hard on tired knees, as the route's own figures say. Aira Force and Gowbarrow →
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Langdale, Windermere and Bowness parking notes, tidied
Car park notes in Great Langdale, Windermere and Bowness no longer repeat their payment details twice, and lay-bys that measured their distance to a summit now give the distance to the nearest walk start instead. Bowness-on-Windermere →
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First aid, satellite SOS and beck water, corrected
The first aid page now tells someone on their own to call 999 straight away, and treats suspected hypothermia as a 999 call, in the text, the diagrams and the printable card. The phone and satellite page keeps each maker's own emergency SOS apart from network satellite texting and 999 by text. The beck water pages no longer suggest that old metal readings below a guideline make water safe to drink. First aid on the fells →
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The closed Keswick railway path, wherever it is listed
The Keswick to Threlkeld railway path now shows as closed on the routes list and the Keswick page, not only on its own page, and the walks from Keswick list no longer offers it. Keswick →
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Seventeen small fell summaries corrected
Seventeen summaries for small fells were checked against each fell's position and the hill database. Darling Fell and Smithy Fell are now placed above Loweswater, not Ennerdale, High Dodd is placed with Place Fell rather than across the lake, and lines saying a top is quiet or popular, which nothing measured, are gone. Darling Fell →
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Clearer route starts, and older walks say so
Fifteen route pages now name where the walk starts, where the car park name alone read oddly. A route walked more than two years ago now says so beside the date, so you can weigh how fresh the notes are. Blencathra by Sharp Edge →
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The bus route key, easier to read
Under the bus network diagram, the year-round routes now sit on one line and each seasonal service has its own row with its dates beside it, so the long date lines no longer wrap under the wrong route. Lake District buses →
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Route pages put the warnings before the map
Every route page now opens with one short introduction, where it starts and the download, then what to know: getting back, the route's own warnings and the daylight verdict, then the map and straight into the stages. The difficulty method and the daylight planner's controls have moved below. On a phone the first warning used to be more than 15,000 pixels down; it is now about 2,000. Blencathra by Sharp Edge →
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Keswick, Ambleside, Coniston and Borrowdale parking, checked
The place pages for Keswick, Ambleside, Coniston and Borrowdale now show their main car parks: Lakeside in Keswick, Rydal Road in Ambleside, the National Trust car park at Rosthwaite and Grange's village car park, which were missing or misnamed. A hotel garage, a coach park and a school car park are gone, and a car park with a stay limit shorter than the walk is no longer offered for it. Keswick →
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Helvellyn by Striding Edge: what Lee walked
The Striding Edge route now says plainly what was walked: the summit and Catstye Cam, not either edge or the south bank of Glenridding Beck. The start turns left over Glenridding Beck, the path bears right off the wall, and the descent off Catstye Cam, the steepest of the day, is named in the stage's warning. Helvellyn by Striding Edge →
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Fuel and charging on the route pages
Route pages now show where to fill up before a remote start and the nearest charger, as intended: a heading change had kept both off every route page. Fuel opening hours are marked as checked on 8 August, so check on the day. Glenridding Dodd round →
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Fell pages answer each question once
Questions whose answer is already on the fell page, such as how long a route takes or whether there is a bus, now link to that answer instead of repeating it. Catbells and Helvellyn lose their repeated and rhetorical copy, and the Catbells page now says dogs travel free on the Keswick Launch. Catbells →
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The Whinlatter Loop, checked against the ground
The Whinlatter Loop's stage notes now match the walk: the start crosses a road rather than a beck, the 455 m top is named as the Birkett top it is, the stiles are where they are, and the last descent heads north-north-west. Lee walked it in May 2025, which the page now says. Whinlatter Loop →
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How much of a walk needs your hands
A route that needs your hands now says how much, on three levels: hands for a few steps, an easy scramble, or a graded scramble. So Catbells' two rocky steps no longer read like Sharp Edge. The route page says which, and where along the walk. Scrambles & the edges now lists the eleven easy and graded scrambles; the Coledale Round and Haystacks leave it, and walks with only a few rocky steps stay on the dog and poor-weather lists. The Langdale Pikes round now follows the walkers' path at Pavey Ark, not Jack's Rake: 12.1 km. Scrambles & the edges →
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A plain warning on the three fells people ask about
Helvellyn, Blencathra and Scafell Pike now carry one plain sentence under 'go today?' saying where the danger is and which way avoids it, drawn from each page's own safety section and linked to it: the edges on Helvellyn, Sharp Edge on Blencathra, Piers Gill and Broad Stand on Scafell Pike. Blencathra →
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Fell pages get to the point
Every fell page now opens with its name, height and whether today is a good day to go, then a short introduction and straight into the routes. The history, field notes and hill data have moved to an About section further down, and the generic fell walking time has gone. In the route comparison the scrambling row now quotes each route's own notes, so Sharp Edge no longer reads 'None recorded'. Catbells →
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Caudale Moor and Middle Dodd checked against the ground
Caudale Moor's notes now say where the wall really runs, put the A592 on the correct side, and warn about the four road crossings and the stretch on the road itself at Windy Corner. Middle Dodd's climb was inflated by bad heights at the Dovedale Beck footbridge: the route now totals 703 m, not 795 m, and its last stage about 30 m. Caudale Moor and St Raven's Edge →
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Snow on the tops: what to bring
The winter guide now lists what a winter walking course asks you to bring when there is snow on the high fells, and says plainly that if you have not been taught to use an ice axe and crampons you should not put yourself where you would need them. What to carry points to it. Winter on the fells →
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Eight newer walks: directions, and how to get back
Eight low-level walks added in September now have stage-by-stage directions, written from the map and marked as such: Windermere's western shore, Miller Bridge, Rydal, Wray Castle, Kentmere to Hartrigg, the Keswick railway trail, the west side of Coniston and Brockhole. One-way walks say how to get back, buggy badges name the stretch that limits them, and the Coniston download is back: the private track that held it is one the route never uses. West side of Coniston →
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Trains, boats and buses: what the numbers mean
The by-train page shows the last train south and the last train north separately, and its punctuality labels now match their own counts. The boat page gives each landing its season, warns that the Windermere Ferry cannot promise a return crossing, and shows the Keswick trail's bridge closure. The bus map now says what it measured: distance to the stops we hold, not a journey you can make. The 509's page now names the once-a-day 559 from Glenridding. The Lake District by train →
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Six feature pages corrected
Every public forecourt must register with Fuel Finder, whatever its size; the petrol page said otherwise. The charging page is now labelled as the 6 August study it is, the roadworks page has National Highways' February 2027 consultation, the climate report says less frosty rather than less white, and the sunrise page drops its leave-by times until each route has a start-to-summit time. If Catbells is full no longer promises a path down in fading light. Last petrol before Wasdale →
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Walked or not: one answer on every page
A route's walked status now comes from one record wherever it appears: fell pages, route pages, places, collections and the 'if the parking is full' notes. Sixteen fell route cards no longer say Planned beside a route Lee walked, and each card says it once. The Kentmere Horseshoe is now walked in part, with the stretches from the map named; Ullscarf and Eagle Crag gains its April 2026 walk; Catbells, Glenridding Dodd and Blencathra's notes now match the record. Catbells →
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Patterdale and Glenridding parking, and what is near each car park
Patterdale's King George V playing field car park now has its parish name and takes in the old seasonal entry, Glenridding's Beckside car park is one card instead of three, and the Patterdale Hotel car park says coins only. A car park card shows a toilet only within 150 m; cafes, pubs, shops and further toilets are listed once, under the cards. Eight pages stop quoting another car park's hours as the council's overnight rule. Patterdale →
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Middle Dodd, Hartsop Dodd and Striding Edge: notes checked against the ground
On Middle Dodd the escape at Scandale Pass now says turn right (north-east) for Caiston Glen; it said left. Both routes above Hartsop name their gradients where they bite (about 60% on Hartsop Dodd's nose), mention the crags beside two descents, and give the month Lee walked them: July 2025 and February 2025. On Striding Edge the stile at the Hole in the Wall is a ladder stile, and the decision point sits there. Middle Dodd →
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Taxis from five stations
The by-train page and twelve fell pages now list the cab firms Traintaxi gives for Windermere, Penrith, Oxenholme, Staveley and Ravenglass, each checked by Lee on 4 October. Where a station has no rank or cab office, the line says so and names the nearest one that does. The Lake District by train →
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Last buses name the town
Last-bus lines now say the town a bus is heading for, as it is signed, rather than the timetable's terminus stop: 'Towards Coniston', not 'Towards Coniston The Crown'. No times change. The Lake District bus map →
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Hill data updated to DoBIH v18.6
Summit positions now come from the latest Database of British and Irish Hills (v18.6, September 2026). No fell changes height, name or list. Fourteen summits move by less than 3 m, except Wandope, whose top moves about 8 m north. Three grid references change by one digit: Wandope is now NY 1881 1974, Hollow Moor (Green Quarter Fell) NY 4691 0403 and Raven's Barrow (Cartmel Fell) SD 4128 8793. Wandope →
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Dog verdicts: only the stiles you actually cross
The stile check used to count any stile within 8 m of a route, including ones on a wall the path only runs beside. It now counts a stile or gate only where the route goes through it, so 14 dog verdicts change: the Glenridding Dodd round and Helvellyn via Seat Sandal become gates only, and several walks lose an amber they did not earn. The Striding Edge route now goes through the wall at Hole-in-the-Wall, as walkers do. Dog-friendly walks →
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Place pages: walks first, and a clearer menu
Every village and lake page now opens with a Choose a walk button and a link to parking and buses, has its breadcrumbs above the title, and a short menu (Walks, Parking, Buses, More) with no cut-off labels. Following a link to a section no longer hides its heading under the menu, and the summit forecast says plainly that it is one summit's verdict, not the valley's. Patterdale →
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St Sunday Crag: down the way Lee walked
The way down now follows Lee's own walk: back over Birks, north to the main path and along the foot of the fell to the outward gate, instead of the lane and the A592. 10.2 km and 831 m. The stage notes are checked against his track and the map, and the mist bearing from the summit to Gavel Pike now reads east. St Sunday Crag →
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Two more routes' stage notes checked
The Glenridding Dodd, Sheffield Pike, Catstye Cam and Birkhouse Moor round now gives the real gradients on its steep sections, its escapes via the col, and the walk date of September 2023; a wall that would lead you off the ridge in cloud is no longer called a handrail. Sour Howes to Troutbeck Tongue names where the Kentmere crags drop away beside the path. Glenridding Dodd round →
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Grasmere: walks first
The Grasmere page now opens with its walks: three walked routes from the village (Easedale Tarn, Stone Arthur, and Helm Crag with Far Easedale) with their distance, climb and time, and the lake circuit's own figures. The last bus reads one line per direction, the summit forecast says it is one summit, not the valley, and the stays list no longer borrows another valley's distances. Shorter on gingerbread and Wordsworth, still there. Grasmere →
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Patterdale: the old youth hostel is now a school outdoor centre
YHA Patterdale was sold in April 2024 to Delta Academies Trust, which runs it as an outdoor-education centre for school groups, so it no longer takes bookings. It is gone from our places-to-stay lists and from what we show near route starts, and the Patterdale page and its FAQ now say so, with YHA Helvellyn above Glenridding as the nearest hostel. Patterdale →
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The terms now say what the site does not do
Our terms no longer call hikes.guide non-commercial. They say what that word stood for: the guide is free, needs no account, and carries no advertising, affiliate links or sponsorship, and no business can pay to appear on it or change what it says. Two report pages that said we take no money from accommodation providers or campsites now say that none of them paid for the page. Terms →
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Forecasts now credit Open-Meteo beside them
Every forecast on the site now carries a link to Open-Meteo, whose free forecast data it is, next to the numbers rather than only on the data sources page. Data sources →
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The weather page, rebuilt for a phone
The weather page now opens on the answer: pick an area and it shows the next promising day, why, and when it was updated, then one card per day. The fifty-run forecast check is drawn in five-day windows a phone can read, each day says how many of the fifty runs stay dry, and tapping a day takes you to its card. Weather →
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Pooley Bridge to Shap: the lower line through Bampton
Redrawn along the line Coast to Coast walkers take from Pooley Bridge: over Askham Fell and Moor Divock past the Cop Stone, then the lane through Butterwick, Bampton and Bampton Grange to Rosgill Bridge and the Coast to Coast path into Shap. 15.4 km and 382 m, with food in Bampton. Still a planned line, not yet walked. Pooley Bridge to Shap →
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Coniston Old Man Round: Lee's own line, and Great Carrs
The route now follows Lee's walk off Wetherlam, down the Lad Stones ridge past Hole Rake, and goes over the top of Great Carrs, which it counts as a sixth fell: 16.1 km and 1,136 m. The whole line is now walked, and the stage notes are checked against the track and the map. Coniston Old Man Round →
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Hartsop Fells and Hart Crag, and Skiddaw from Lonscale: stage notes checked
Hartsop now starts from Cow Bridge through Low Wood, names its steep parts and warns of the crags on the Dovedale side of the ridge. Lonscale Fell, Skiddaw and Bakestall follows Lee's own recording with each climb's real gradient, warns of Gibraltar Crag and Birkett Edge, and gives the right walk date, June 2025. Hartsop Fells and Hart Crag →
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Easy walks: nothing Hard on any measure
The easy & family list now leaves out any walk graded Hard or Severe on any measure, so seven steeper short walks move off it, and every collection card names its hardest measure. West Side of Coniston's download is paused until a 100 m stretch is confirmed open to walkers. Easy & family walks →
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Roads without a pavement, lakes and the way back
Road stretches without a pavement now carry the Highway Code's full advice on 14 routes. Car parks and bus stops across a lake are no longer listed as near a walk, and the Windermere western-shore walk explains the ferry. Ambleside to Wray Castle has a dated Getting back section: the boat's season, the bus and the full retrace. Ambleside to Wray Castle →
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The Mountain Rescue timing line, and the Grasmoor road
The line on every route page now says Mountain Rescue call-outs mostly come after midday, not that this proves why. The Grasmoor Round's 'Grade 1' label is replaced by what the ground is, and its walk back names the B5289, a 60 mph road with no pavement for most of the way. The Grasmoor Round →
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Weather: the fifteen-day plume, its dates and the update time
The fifteen-day rain plume no longer draws a band that crosses itself, the plumes now name the day the fifty runs describe rather than the next, the window finder's agreement line works for a single area, and update times no longer read an hour late in summer from the next conditions run. Lake District weather →
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Pushchair walks: the Keswick trail off while its bridge is shut
The pushchair page and the access page no longer offer the Keswick to Threlkeld trail while the bridge over the River Greta is replaced. Pushchair walks →
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The Grasmoor Round: stage notes checked against the track and the map
The walk to the Liza Beck footbridge, the drop to the col below Crag Hill and the turn to Rannerdale Knotts are now described. The descent off Whiteless Pike is south, Grasmoor's top is a shelter cairn, not a trig point, and from the col the way off is north to Coledale Hause. The Grasmoor Round →
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RoutePark in Eryri (Snowdonia)
RoutePark now finds car parks near any walk in Eryri as well as the Peak District: 404 places from OpenStreetMap, with walks from Ogwen, Pen y Pass and Rhyd Ddu as examples. A fee shows only where the operator's own page agrees with the map. RoutePark →
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Pushchair walks: the National Park's graded paths, and Lee's own walks
Where a walk follows one of the National Park's Miles without Stiles paths, its guide now says for how far and at what grade, with a link: 17 routes in all. Lee has walked parts of the Rydal lane and the Keswick railway trail with a pushchair, and those guides name the stretches. Loweswater joins the pushchair list for its first 2 km. Pushchair walks →
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Keswick railway trail: closed at the bridge over the Greta
The trail is closed at its Keswick end while the bridge over the River Greta is replaced, for about eight weeks from mid-September. The two walks that cross it, the Keswick to Threlkeld trail and Castlerigg Stone Circle, now say so, with the Park's notice. Their GPX downloads are suspended, and both are off the easy, pushchair and planner lists, until the bridge reopens. Keswick to Threlkeld trail →
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Walked in part: the unwalked stretches measured properly
Where a route says which stretch we have not walked, the kilometres were measured too short. They now measure true distance along the line, on 23 routes including Mardale Horseshoe, Coniston Old Man and the Helvellyn rounds. Mardale Horseshoe →
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By boat: walks from the piers are back, with five more
The boat page's walks from the landing stages are back, now 30 of them: the new low-level routes add the west side of Coniston, Windermere's western shore from the Ferry House, the Keswick trail and two walks from Waterhead. The Lake District by boat →
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Eight new low-level routes, chosen with a pushchair in mind
Lee walked two with a pram in 2023: Ambleside to Wray Castle, and Ambleside over Miller Bridge. Six are new lines along Windermere's west shore, past the Rydal stepping stones, from Kentmere to Hartrigg, on the Keswick to Threlkeld railway trail, round the west side of Coniston and from Windermere to Brockhole. Each page counts its gates and stiles and says where a pushchair cannot go. Pushchair walks →
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Mardale Horseshoe: stage notes checked against the track and the map
The walk along the shore and over Bowderthwaite Bridge is now described, the Straits of Riggindale are in the right stage, the High Street wall is the handrail only where it is one, and the escapes beyond High Street and Harter Fell now point to the nearer way down. Mardale Horseshoe →
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Homepage news: old weather warnings drop off
A weather warning in the homepage's Latest news now disappears once the day it covers has passed, so the card no longer shows Friday's forecast on Saturday. Path closures and other news stay until they are replaced. Homepage →
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Winter and Crag Fell: counted over our 183 published routes
The features page's winter tile now says 25 of our 183 routes do not fit into December daylight, matching the winter page, and Crag Fell's 'is it hard?' answer counts the same 183 routes. The finding is unchanged: Crag Fell's moderate steepness is a grade fewer than one in four of them earns. Winter on the fells →
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Carrock Fell and Knott: stage notes that follow the walked line
The stage notes now follow the line we walked: down the Cumbria Way past Great Lingy Hut to Grainsgill Beck, then west to Knott, and back beside the beck past the old Carrock mine workings (keep clear of them), with a ford at Arm o' Grain and about 4.7 km of road via Mosedale. The climb names Rake Trod, and a new way off at Grainsgill Beck leaves Knott out. The longer Carrock round now points to this route. Carrock Fell and Knott →
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Parking map: Lee's sign photos show their price, dated
Two of our car park sign photos name a price (Mosedale's donation and Mungrisdale village hall's day rate). The parking map now shows them with the month they were taken, and says a photo shows the price on that day: check the sign when you arrive. Parking map →
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Path closures, metals and route counts brought up to date
The path closures page has Chapel Stile's second notice (to 16 October) and the pylon order's extension to April, and warns sooner when its list is getting old. The beck-water metals page says 98 of its 105 points have dissolved results, and the winter, downloadable-route and walks-map pages count the 183 routes we publish. Path closures →
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Starting out, access, descent and rescue: figures checked
Starting out credits its rescue figures to Ordnance Survey and adds stops and a buffer to the plan; the access-mapping page says what mapped access land does and does not give you; the descent page explains our time range rather than a 15% uplift; the rescue report counts ten area teams plus the mine-rescue unit; and Helvellyn by Striding Edge says which parts Lee has walked. Starting out →
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Scafell Pike: can I take my dog, and is it OK with kids?
The Scafell Pike page answers two more questions from our own route data: what dogs meet (gates only, but a boulderfield summit, a steep descent and no water up top) and why it is not a first hill for children, with our shortest round's distance, climb and time. Scafell Pike →
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Fusedale Circuit: stage notes that follow the walked line
The Fusedale Circuit's notes now start and finish at St Peter's Church, go round by Howtown pier, reach Bonscale Pike's summit before its stone pillars, name both fords and the steepest descent, and describe the Fusedale valley as a way down. Directions and beck names follow the track and the map. Fusedale Circuit →
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Wild camping: the four National Trust campsites, with our routes from each
The wild camping page's campsite section is now four cards, for Great Langdale, Low Wray, Wasdale and Eskdale, each with the National Trust's own link and two or three of our routes that start nearby, so a plan that cannot stay on the fell has somewhere real to go. No dates, prices or availability are claimed. Wild camping →
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Bus pages: the seasonal note is readable again
The note that a bus runs only in season was drawn in a pale colour on a background that did not exist, so its text all but vanished in light mode. It now uses the site's warning colours, in both themes, as does the 'this bus does not fit' panel on walk pages. Buses →
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Weather outlook: no '0%' beside forecast rain
On the furthest days of the 16-day outlook the forecast gives no chance of rain, and the page was printing that as 0% next to the rain it forecasts (for example 0% (4.0 mm)). Those days now show a dash for the chance, with the amount kept. Weather outlook →
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Wild camping: a stove where it is allowed, and who owns the land
The wild camping page now says a stove is only for where the landowner allows one and no fire-risk warning is in force, and under 'Can I camp here?' it says plainly that a map shows paths and access, not the owner: a campsite or the landowner's own permission is the only certain way to stay. Wild camping →
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What to carry: the cold-battery line is one maker's figure, not a rule
The torch check on the what-to-carry page still quotes Petzl's own figure for its batteries in the cold, but no longer turns it into a rule for every torch: a cold day can take a lot off yours, so carry a spare or a way to charge it. Lee's autumn pack no longer leaves the sunglasses at home. What to carry →
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The homepage's month picks use the current forecast
The homepage's walks for this month now read the forecast made in the same build, rather than the one from the build before, so a picked walk no longer leans on yesterday's weather. Homepage →
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Fell pages show the day's verdict sooner on phones
Fell pages now start fetching today's and tomorrow's conditions as soon as the page begins to load, rather than after everything else, so the walking verdict appears sooner on phones: on Great Borne in our tests it came in about two seconds earlier. Nothing extra is downloaded. Great Borne →
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Place pages colour good walking days correctly
The conditions strip on place pages showed Cracking and Decent days with the red chip meant for poor days, because it only recognised the old band names. It now reads the scorer's bands, so a good day looks like one. Keswick →
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Blencathra to Mungrisdale Common: stage notes that follow the walked line
The stage notes follow the line as walked: the lane out of Mungrisdale first, then over the col above Mousthwaite Comb rather than down to the river, whose footbridge is now the way off. Directions say north off Hallsfell Top and north-east to Tarn Crags Top, the Scales Fell climb is 14%, and the last stage warns of the steep, slippery ground over Raven Crags. Blencathra to Mungrisdale Common →
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High Stile, Seat via Buttermere: stage notes that follow the walked line
The stage notes are shorter and follow the line as walked: up through Burtness Wood on the pitched path, the 600 m on the B5289 from Gatesgarth, and north from Scarth Gap. Sourmilk Gill is spelt as the map spells it, and High Stile and High Crag carry their listed heights. High Stile, Seat via Buttermere →
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Around Loweswater: stage notes that follow the walked line
The stage notes are shorter and follow the line as walked: up Low Fell's steep south-east flank, then over the Crabtree Beck ford to Darling Fell, and off Gavel Fell back by the col. The valley crossing is named at Waterend, and Highnook Beck is spelt as the map spells it. Around Loweswater →
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Fell and route pages draw icons, not emoji
The small pictures on fell and route pages are now drawn from one icon set instead of your phone's emoji font, so they look the same on every device and the page lays out sooner: the first layout on a fell page drops from about 214 to 147 milliseconds in our tests. Helvellyn →
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Blake Fell, Gavel Fell and Hen Comb: stage notes checked against the track
The stage notes are shorter and follow the line as walked: from Gavel Fell south past Whiteoak Moss and Floutern Tarn, then up Hen Comb's ridge on a path, with the right becks named either side of Hen Comb. The way home fords Mosedale Beck, with the same caution as the Hen Comb page. Blake Fell, Gavel Fell, Hen Comb →
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Eleven fell pages corrected from the fact-check
Black Combe's view no longer claims a count, Selside Pike's corpse-road history waits for a source, Hard Knott drops a walking time no route matched, and High Spy's 'keep right' now names the fork before Maiden Moor. Side Pike says the way down is by the path round its south side; Ullscarf and Great Sca Fell notes say what our rounds involve; Scout Scar and Whitbarrow gain hazard cards, Whitbarrow its nature-reserve link, and Orrest Head the National Park's easier-access route. Side Pike →
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Two Causey Pike rounds walk home along the road
Scar Crags, Causey Pike and Stile End, Outerside, Causey Pike, Rowling End now come home from Stoneycroft along the Newlands road, the way they were walked, instead of the paths past Uzzicar and along the foot of Barrow: 12.2 km and 10.1 km, with about 3 km of the walk out on tarmac. Scar Crags, Causey Pike →
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Allen Crags and Glaramara: notes that match the map
Allen Crags and Glaramara's stage notes are a little shorter. Esk Hause and its cross-shelter are named apart, Lincomb Tarns has its map name, and three compass words that disagreed with the map are gone. Allen Crags and Glaramara →
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Scar Crags, Causey Pike and Stile End: shorter notes that match the map
The stage notes on two Causey Pike rounds are shorter and match the map. 'Pathless' is withdrawn where a path is mapped. Two escapes that pointed at the wrong ground now say to go back the way you came. The steep descent off the rocks is described as the track shows it, and the walk home is no longer said to be all on the road. Scar Crags, Causey Pike →
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Route pages say when the guide last changed
A route page now keeps its dates apart: the month we walked it, a review date only where the review was not the walk, and the day the route guide last changed, for example 'Walked July 2026 · Route guide updated 1 October 2026'. Its structured data carries the same date, and a daily rebuild no longer moves it. Routes →
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Twelve more routes open with the essentials
Twelve more routes now open with the essentials before the detail: how long, how hard, where to park and what to watch for. 123 routes have them now, among them Whin Rigg and Illgill Head, and the Birketts around the Kentmere Horseshoe. Routes →
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Parking well: yellow-line exceptions, pavements and a clearer verge check
Parking well now says what yellow lines do and do not cover, including the zone-entry sign, loading and Blue Badge concessions. It adds a tenth rule about leaving the pavement clear, and replaces our firm-ground verge test with a check that starts from permission: signs and local instructions first, then clearance. RoutePark shows the same rules. Parking well →
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RoutePark in the Peak District
For a walk that starts in the Peak District, RoutePark now lists the public car parks near it: 393 from OpenStreetMap. Where a car park has no name on the map we name it after the nearest village or road. Four show a fee checked against the operator's own page; the rest say the fee is not checked. RoutePark →
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Seathwaite, Green Gable and Base Brown: down through Gillercomb
The stage notes are shorter and match the map, and the route now comes down off Base Brown back along the ridge and through Gillercomb, the way it was walked, instead of straight down Base Brown's crag-lined nose: 15.9 km and 954 m. The car-free note's time to be off Base Brown for the last bus is now 17:47. Seathwaite, Green Gable, Base Brown →
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Thirteen more routes open with the essentials
Thirteen more routes now open with the essentials before the detail: how long, how hard, where to park and what to watch for. That covers every route we have walked, and the first six we have not, among them the Langdale Horseshoe and Scafell Pike via Lingmell. Binsey →
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Car park figures from the National Park Authority, now open data
The Lake District National Park Authority has agreed that the car park payment figures it released to us can be shared. The RingGo extract it released and our hourly tables made from it are now downloads on our data page, under the Open Government Licence, with the Authority's credit, which the car park pages now carry too. A transaction is a ticket, not a car, so every count is a floor. Open data →
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Parking well opens with a picture
Parking well now opens with a large drawing of a car parked across a field gateway with a tractor stuck behind it. The rule drawings are larger on desktop and phones, the rules are grouped by kind, and the arrows and ticks show again in dark mode. Parking well →
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Stages that lose height now say so
85 stage headings on 76 routes said 'Climb' or 'About X km with Y m of ascent' on a leg that ends well below where it starts, mostly the walk-out at the end of a round. They now read 'Descent of about N m, with about M m of climbing'. On Esk Pike and Great End, the last stage drops 801 m. Standing Crag, High Tove, Armboth →
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Fell pages jump less as they load
We fixed three known causes of layout shift on fell pages on a phone: the menu folded away, the 'Mark as bagged?' button pushed the page down, and today's conditions verdict arrived late and pushed it down again. The menu button, the bag button and the verdict now hold their place from the first frame, and the menu fix reaches route and feature pages too. Hallin Fell →
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Middle Fell, Haycock, Seatallan and Buckbarrow: tighter notes
The stage notes are shorter and agree with the map: the traverse below Seatallan is no longer called pathless, since a path is mapped along it, the beck beside the last stages is Greendale Gill, Greendale Tarn is no longer said to lie east, and the Bleng escape points south only. Caw Fell and Seatallan take their heights from our fell list. Middle Fell, Haycock, Seatallan and Buckbarrow →
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Parking well: considerate parking in the Lake District
A new page sets out the ten parking rules RoutePark shows on its Parking well screen, with the same diagrams and the source of each rule, including keeping gateways and passing places clear, when yellow-line restrictions cover the verge, and leaving room for emergency access. It also counts where they matter on our own data: 75 of our 1,009 parking places are near a mapped gate. Parking well →
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RoutePark says where it covers
RoutePark's home screen now asks for a Lake District walk and says it covers the Lake District so far, and a walk that starts outside the Lakes is told so plainly. RoutePark →
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Faster pages on a phone
Scripts were being sent uncompressed: on a tested fell page, about 323 KB where 101 KB would do. They are now compressed, which leaves more of a phone's connection for the photograph and the conditions you came for. Helvellyn →
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Rossett Pike, Allen Crags and Great End: notes and track that agree
The stage notes are shorter, and the route now comes down off Bowfell by Three Tarns and The Band, the way it was walked, instead of a faint line between Flat Crags' cliffs: 17.9 km, and the steepest descent is about 40%. The Esk Hause shelter and Angle Tarn lose heights that belonged elsewhere, and the footbridge is Stake Gill's. Rossett Pike, Allen Crags, Great End and more →