Tony Garofalo
High Street
High Street is a hill on the eastern fringes of the Lake District National Park. It is not an isolated peak but rather the highest of a series of tops that lie on a ridge of high ground that runs northwards from near Windermere to the outskirts of Penrith. The hill takes its name from a Roman road that once traversed it and ran along the ridge, connecting the fort at Galava (Ambleside) with that at Brocavum (near Penrith).
The picture was taken looking towards High Street from the east shore of Haweswater [Hafr’s lake] Reservoir. The long east ridge of the hill that descends to the reservoir is called Long Stile [long ridge] and the valley to the right of the ridge is called Riggindale. The name Riggindale is most probably Viking in origin and translates into modern English as “Regin’s Valley”. For a brief period this valley became quite famous as it was the only nesting site in England of the Golden Eagle. A pair of the birds first nested in the cliffs above the valley in 1969 but the female disappeared in 2004 and sadly the male also perished during Storm Desmond in 2015. According to local folklore, however, Eagles are not the only ones to have sought sanctuary in Riggindale. Hugh Holme hid out in a cave in the valley after being implicated in a plot against King John in 1209. He stayed there for many years but eventually after the King died he took up residence in the village of Mardale Green which has now been flooded by Haweswater Reservoir. His line of descendants became known as the “Kings of Mardale” and the line only ended in 1885 with the death of Hugh Parker Holme, who is buried in the nearby village of Shap.
High Street rises to 2,717 feet above sea level. It is classified as a Wainwright, a Marilyn, a Hewitt, a Nuttall and a Birkett.
High Street
High Street is a hill on the eastern fringes of the Lake District National Park. It is not an isolated peak but rather the highest of a series of tops that lie on a ridge of high ground that runs northwards from near Windermere to the outskirts of Penrith. The hill takes its name from a Roman road that once traversed it and ran along the ridge, connecting the fort at Galava (Ambleside) with that at Brocavum (near Penrith).
The picture was taken looking towards High Street from the east shore of Haweswater [Hafr’s lake] Reservoir. The long east ridge of the hill that descends to the reservoir is called Long Stile [long ridge] and the valley to the right of the ridge is called Riggindale. The name Riggindale is most probably Viking in origin and translates into modern English as “Regin’s Valley”. For a brief period this valley became quite famous as it was the only nesting site in England of the Golden Eagle. A pair of the birds first nested in the cliffs above the valley in 1969 but the female disappeared in 2004 and sadly the male also perished during Storm Desmond in 2015. According to local folklore, however, Eagles are not the only ones to have sought sanctuary in Riggindale. Hugh Holme hid out in a cave in the valley after being implicated in a plot against King John in 1209. He stayed there for many years but eventually after the King died he took up residence in the village of Mardale Green which has now been flooded by Haweswater Reservoir. His line of descendants became known as the “Kings of Mardale” and the line only ended in 1885 with the death of Hugh Parker Holme, who is buried in the nearby village of Shap.
High Street rises to 2,717 feet above sea level. It is classified as a Wainwright, a Marilyn, a Hewitt, a Nuttall and a Birkett.