High Street Roman Road

This is a rare chance to walk along the length of the High Street Roman Road, from Fort to Fort.

This will challenge your endurance, it's great practice to test how your preparing for a challenge such as the 3 Peak Challenge a charity fundraising event or a personal goal.

Why not let our experienced instructors guide you on this wonderful ridge walk, full of history (not just Roman) for a wonderful, albeit long day on the fells.

An early morning pick up in Ambleside for all participants who will be transported to Brougham Castle, the start of the days walk.

A very long route covering an entire days march for a Roman Centurion, we start the route at Brougham Castle, next to the remains of a Roman Fort and follow the length of the High Street Roman Road as closely as possible to the Roman Fort at Ambleside.

During the route we will be in touch with the minibus and will be able to drop off anyone who is unable to complete the walk.

From Brougham Castle we will follow the lane through Eamont Bridge, Yanwath and Tirral before leaving the country lanes at Celleron. Here we will climb gently on the remains of the Roman Road to 'The Cockpit' the most impressive of the ancient stone circles we will pass on the walk.

From here the road will continue to climb onto the main High Street ridge taking us past the summits of Loadpot Hill, Wether Hill, Red Crag, High Raise and Rampsgill Head before crossing the Straits Of Riggindale, where to our left lives the last wild Golden Eagle in England.

A short climb brings us onto our highest point of the walk, towards the summit of High Street, a short detour from the Roman Road can be made here to take in the summit, before the path leads us down to Troutbeck Park and into the village of Troutbeck.

From the other side of the village we rejoin a track leading around the flanks of the hill before descending via Jenkin Crag to Waterhead and the short walk along the lake shore to the Galava Roman Fort at Ambleside.

Each participant will be required to bring suitable equipment for their chosen event, please see Kit List tab above.