Name of walk	Bellringers' walk to Tarn Hows and Black Crag
Date of walk	2026-03-14

Today the Barrow St. James bellringers met at Glen Mary NT car park at 8am, which is on the way to Skelwith Bridge from Coniston, in order to walk up to Tarn Hows via Tom Gill waterfall and then on to Black Crag, returning to the other side of Tarn Hows and back to the car park. There was bell ringing at Ambleside Church in the afternoon. The walk was about 6 miles. Thankfully the weather was excellent.

Andy's map of our route taken.

Bottom of Tom Gill from the bridge from the car park.

The route up was wet and slippery in places.

Tom Gill waterfall.

Sue. Jo P, Rachel, Andy and Jason.

The upper falls.

Andy, Sue, Rachel and Jason.

We continue up.

Andy's photo with Sue on the left.

Nearly at the top.

We come out at Tarn Hows.

Jason posing for an Andy photo.

We are heading for the far end.

View from the far end.

The old semi-circular seat is gone, and replaced by a bench. We pose for a group photo.

I swap with Andy and he takes this one.

We go over the stile at the far end and cross over to the main track that turns off to Iron Keld. View back.

Belted Galloway on the route through Iron Keld.

View from the top of Iron Keld just after turning off left above the gate. Langdale Pikes on the right.

Jo P and Jason.

The two summit cairns of Black Crag ahead.

View across Lingmoor to the Langdale Pikes.

Wider view.

Jason and Jo have been waiting for Andy, his camera memory was full.

Black Crag summit.

A summit view.

Rachel took this.

View north.

Summit view with Jason, from the top of the stile.

I go over the stile for the view north. Dunmail Raise is the gap with the Helvellyn range to the right.

View to Windermere. Ambleside on the left.

View over the south cairn to Esthwaite Water.

Coffee break time while we wait for Andy to appear.

Andy makes the summit.

We head for the south cairn for a group shot. Ambleside left.

I swap with Sue and she takes this photo.

We head down.

We head around the other side of Iron Keld.

View back to Sue.

We soon reach a stile to head back to Tarn Hows via Torver Intake.

Tarn Hows from the other side.

We head up to take the alternative route back to the car park.

Passing some farm ruins.

The walk was about 4hrs, but we didn’t rush. Another excellent walk on a lovely day.

Jo.