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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 9½mls (15km) | |
| Ascent: | 2,009ft (612m) | |
| Time: | 5½hrs | |
| Grade: |  | (Moderate) |
Route outline for walk n128:
Wedder Leap - River Coquet - Rowhope Burn - Trows Burn - Windy Gyle - The Pennine Way - Hazely Law - Hepden Burn - Clennel St - Middle Hill - Fairhaugh - Barrow Burn - Barrowburn.
Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:
 1 English Mountain |
 0 Wainwrights |
 1 English Nuttall |
 0 English Deweys |
 0 Wainwright Outlying Fells |
 0 Marilyns |
 0 Bridgets |
Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:
The highest point of this walk is Windy Gyle at 619m (2031ft). Windy Gyle is classified as a Donald (No. 85) and an English Mountain (Hewitt) (169th highest in England, 296th highest in England & Wales). Windy Gyle is also known as an English Nuttall (236th highest in England, 411th highest in England & Wales). Since Windy Gyle lies on the border between England & Scotland it has the distinction of being classified as an Scottish Donald, an English Mountain (Hewitt) and an English Nuttall. The summit of Windy Gyle is marked by an Ordnance Survey Trig Point & a huge cairn (on the Scottish side of the border). Since Windy Gyle lies on the border between England & Scotland it has the distinction of being classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt), an English Nuttall and a Scottish Donald.
National Trails & Long Paths included on this walk:
Part of this walk follows a section of The Pennine Way, a 404km (251 miles) linear footpath connecting Edale in Derbyshire, England with Kirk Yetholm in The Borders, Scotland. The Pennine Way is waymarked by a National Trail Acorn. For more walks that include a section of this trail see The Pennine Way.
This walk is on Ordnance Survey Maps:
| OS Explorer Map OL16 | |
| 1:25,000 scale (Orange Covers) |
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| OS Landranger Map 80 | |
| 1:50,000 scale (Pink Covers) |
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Some Photos and Pictures from Walk n128 Windy Gyle from Wedder Leap, Barrowburn
In no particular order . . .
Stile over the border fence between England and Scotland on the way to Windy Gyle
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