| Scout Green
Written by Andrew Naylor - 04 Jan 2004
last update by
Stephen Mourton -
13 Oct 2013
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There is a minor road signposted Scout Green off the B6261 Shap-Orton road. The B6261 can be joined from either M6 junction 38 (Tebay) or 39 (Shap); junction 39 is quicker to Scout Green.
Parking on the roadside at the location.
The nearest toilets are in Orton about a mile away, which also has an excellent general store and Post Office. Otherwise Tebay services can be accessed without going onto the motorway which has all the services you should need with an excellent large award winning farm shop. Wifi is also available.
The George Hotel in Orton is the nearest, but the Westmorland at Tebay services is also nearby.
The line runs broadly North-South so light favours west facing shots in the morning and east facing shots in the afternoon. However, photography is tricky from west of the line. The land drops down to the Birk Beck, so cameras have to be pointed upwards and it can be hard to avoid lorries crawling up the northbound M6 immediately behind the line.
