The moorland fire looks recent, but there has only been one week recently which was not rain-soaked when it could have happened. I would have thought the ground was too damp. The path is the Pennine Way and Lothersdale is ahead.
Uploaded to Geograph by Bill Boaden on 7 October 2011
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