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Skiddaw Forest, dividing the Northern Fells into three sectors. Dash Beck runs north west, the River Caldew north east and the River Glenderaterra south. The three groups of fells can conveniently be thought of as the Skiddaw massif, the Blencathra group and Back O'Skiddaw. The single building in Skiddaw Forest is Skiddaw House which has variously seen service as a shepherds' bothy and a
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Skiddaw Forest, which creates a number of options for starting points. The Skiddaw House supply road follows Dash Beck up from Peter House Farm, or a good track runs alongside the Caldew from the road at Mosedale. Access is also possible up the Glenderaterra valley from the south, starting either from the Gale Road car park or the vicinity of
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Dead Beck runs down into
Candleseaves Bog, the source of both the Caldew and Dash Beck. Great Calva has a prominent southern spur, around which the Caldew flows before steering north east for the Eden Valley. In a strict topographical sense Candleseaves Bog is the connection between Great Calva and Skiddaw, but it could hardly be described as a ridge route.
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To the south of Great Calva, at the centre of the
Northern Fells, is Skiddaw Forest. Confusingly this Forest contains no trees, —other than the windbreak of Skiddaw House — but is a marshy upland area at around 1,300 feet (400 m) surrounded on all sides by higher fells. Three streams
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Great Calva is mainly covered in heather, which makes walking relatively difficult. Approaching from the northwest, one can take the bridleway between Great Cockup and Little Calva from
Orthwaite to reach the col between Knott and the summit. Alternatively, Great Calva can be climbed up the pathless
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Skiddaw Forest as a steep sided pyramid, clad predominantly in heather. The summit is a curving ridge one-half-mile (800 m) long, with Great Calva at the eastern end and Little Calva to the west. The ridge itself is extremely wet underfoot. From between the two tops,
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Little Calva sends out a further descending ridge to the north west, running alongside Dash Beck. A series of spurs named Black Nettle Hause, Little Nettle Hause and White Hause drop toward the river. Between Black Nettle Hause and
Birkett Edge on
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Glenderaterra Valley and the Vale of St John, the gap gives an unimpeded view as far as
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473:A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells
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27:Mountain in the Lake District, England
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200:Location in Lake District, UK
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701:Fells of the Lake District
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131:Coordinates
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342:Topography
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210:Location
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243:OS grid
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499:ISBN
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