Widdybank Fell Nature Trail: Moor House-Upper Teesdale NNR

This walk takes you over Widdybank Fell, along the track to Cow Green dam and Cauldron Snout waterfall. The walk follows a tarmac track with 1 large kissing gate and 3 steep sections. Suitable for pushchairs and wheelchairs with strong pushers! However for the last 100m section, to view Cauldron Snout waterfall, the track is rocky and uneven. On the backbone of England, around the headwaters of the River Tees, 8,800 hectares of upland country forms the Moor House–Upper Teesdale National Nature Reserve (NNR). The reserve encompasses an almost complete range of upland habitats typical of the North Pennines, from lower lying hay meadows, rough grazing and juniper woods to limestone grassland, blanket bogs and the summit heaths of the high fells. Nowhere else in Britain is there such a diversity of rare habitats in one location. The remote and dramatic landscape of the reserve can be enjoyed from the Pennine Way National Trail, the Public Rights of Way network and on Open Access land.
Cow Green Reservoir © NPAP/Beck Baker

Location: 

Starting from the Cow Green Reservoir car park (NY811309)

Distance: 

5 km

Terrain: 

  • Off road sections
  • On road sections
  • Steep sections

Area: 

Access: 

  • Car parking
  • Disabled
  • Public transport
  • Pushchair

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