Walking Route: Lake District — Grasmere and Alcock Tarn

Simon Whaley
The Slow Journeyman
4 min readMar 22

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A 3 ¼mile circular route from Grasmere, exploring Wainwright’s dreary tarn

Alcock Tarn © Simon Whaley

What can you do with a little under two hours remaining on a Grasmere car parking ticket, and spring showers reducing the cloud level? Don’t let Wainwright’s comments of

“A dreary sheet of water named Alcock Tarn,”

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Simon Whaley
The Slow Journeyman

Bestselling author, writer and photographer. UK travel writer. Lives in the glorious Welsh Borders.