Friends' School

Year 10 Geography Field Course

Year 10 Geography Field Course
to the Lake District October 2002

 

 

From 30th September to 3rd of October, 2002, 32 pupils studying GCSE Geography went to Blencathra Field Centre near Keswick. We were blessed with wonderful weather and climbed to the top of CatBells (451 metres) studying footpath erosion. After this we descended and got the ferry across Derwentwater to Keswick.

The following day we left the centre on foot to study rivers on the Blease Fell. This was eventful with several of the party getting slightly wetter and muddier than they had anticipated when encountering stream and bog at close quarters. We all returned better informed about the measurements of stream channels. We then studied the flood defence scheme in Keswick.

On our return we drove through more of the beautiful scenery towards Windermere and visited the National Park Information Centre at Brockhole where a film on 'Living and Working in the Lake District' was especially notable.

Our journeys to and from the Lake District helped us Southerners to realise the extent of the wonderful scenery in the North of England by driving through North Yorkshire and County Durham.

 

Alison Ainsworth

 

Cat Bells

 

 

 

 

 

Footpath Erosion and Management

 

 

 

 

 

Rivers