DALE HEAD Direct Route via Dale Head Copper Mines inc HINDSCARTH (The Lake District)

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Dale Head is named for its position at the head of the Newlands Valley. This stretches away due north for three and a half miles before debouching into the floodplain of the Derwent between Derwentwater and 
Bassenthwaite Lake.
The eastern wall of the valley is formed by the High Spy to Catbells ridge, separating it from Borrowdale.
Entering on the western side are a series of side valleys which drain the main mass of the North Western Fells. The source of Newlands Beck does not however flow from the apex of Dale Head as might be supposed from the name. Instead it has its birth at the col between the main summit and the eastern top, High Scawdel (1,815 feet or 553 metres).
The northern face of the fell forming the dalehead is ringed with crags.
A small copper mine situated below Dalehead Crags. Some ruins are to be seen at NY222157 and scattered all around them are numerous pieces of vein material spotted with malachite. By following the path up the hill a spoil heap is reached at NY225155, beside which is a level. A little higher up the fellside is another level which is connected to the lower on by an internal shaft. A little below these workings, in precipitous ground, is a waterfall and at the head of this is another level. The lowest level is not thought to be connected to the other two.
The main faces are Dalehead Crags and Great Gable, not to be confused with the fell of that name.

The southern flank of the fell running down to the summit of the Honister Pass road (1,180 feet or 360 metres) has much gentler slopes, although there is outcropping rock on either side. Buckstone Hows and Yew Crag overshadow the road. From the top of the pass Gatesgarthdale Beck runs north west to Buttermere while Hause Gill flows east to Seatoller and Borrowdale. Across the road is Grey Knotts in the Western Fells.

The ridge to Hindscarth departs north west from the summit of Dale Head, soon narrowing into the fine and airy Hindscarth Edge. Both slopes are rocky, that to the south being known as Molds. Far Tongue Gill descends from the north of the ridge, a tributary of Newlands Beck.


Links to other walks in Newlands Valley...

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   • Cat Bells Maiden Moor & High Spy Via Newla...  

   • Robinson via the North East Ridge, Knott R...  

   • Ard Crags and Knott Rigg via Aikin Knott a...  

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