Buckden Pike

Trail description

From the National Park car park in Buckden, this loop climbs Buckden Rake and the old Gavel road past the disused Buckden lead mine to the summit trig point, then returns by way of a memorial cross. At 702 metres, Buckden Pike narrowly misses being the highest hill in the area. The cross remembers five Polish airmen killed when their Wellington bomber crashed on the fell in a snowstorm on 30 January 1942.

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