Tatham Fells

Train to Wennington – walk back to Bentham

5.4 miles | 8.8 km | 219 m Ascent | 6.5 Naismith miles | Kate Rowe / Kate Butcher
All of the towns and villages in our area are attractive places to live, and just about all of them make a good starting point for a walk. One of the ways in which Bentham stands head and shoulders above the others however is that it has a railway station, making walks based on a combination of rail travel and walking between stations particularly attractive.
This excellent walk draws on that strength: We take the train from Bentham just one stop to Wennington, then take a route back that gives us great views of Ingleborough and Tatham Fells along the way.
Being lucky with the weather always helps make a walk seem particularly attractive, and as the pictures show, we were indeed fortuitous this time, enjoying bright sunshine and early signs of spring.

Easy

6.4 miles | 10.4km | 344 m Ascent | 8.2 Naismith miles | Mary Taylor
Members of the Bentham Footpath Group tend to consider the Yorkshire Dales, the Forest of Bowland, and the South Lakes as their walking territory. This relatively easy walk is at the North end of the Forest of Bowland and is very local to Bentham – so much so that many of the farms, and other buildings that we passed along the way hold important personal memories for those in the group lucky enough to be born and bred in and around Bentham.
For the rest of us, this is still a great walk in a timeless landscape that never gets busy – despite the idyllic autumn weather we enjoyed, we passed no other walkers, and the only people we met all day were residents pottering in their gardens and making the most of the sunshine before winter sets in.
Although we consider this walk to be “easy” based on the total distance and elevation change, you should be aware that Tatham Fells are poorly drained, and so the ground can be very wet. This can make the walk feel longer than stated but on the other hand wet weather makes the rivers and becks we cross so much more attractive.

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