Fairfield Horseshoe

The Fairfield Horseshoe is a circular route and hosts a mountain run in the Lake District, Cumbria, England. The road has no fixed direction in which it must be completed. A beginning is possible in Rydal and in Ambleside.

The trail is 16 km long and contains a total of 1100 m height difference.

The route leads via:

  • Low Pike ( 508 m)
  • High Pike ( 656 m)
  • Dove Crag ( 792 m)
  • Hart Crag ( 822 m)
  • Fairfield (873 m)
  • Great Rigg ( 766 m)
  • Heron Pike ( 612 m)
  • Nab Scar (440 m)

Since 1966, a mountain race in the Fairfield fur Run along the Fairfield Horseshoe over a distance of 14 km is held every year, with a total height difference of 900 m in May.

Swell

  • Alfred Wainwright, A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Book 2 The Far Eastern Fells. ISBN 0-7112-2455-2
  • Ambleside Athletics Club
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