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These are the 214 fells selected by Alfred Wainwright for a chapter in his seven Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. See List of Wainwrights for them sorted by book, and the other Lake District fells he listed in The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. Scafell Pike, 978 m (3209 ft) Scafell, 964 m (3163 ft) Helvellyn, 950 m (3117 ft)
116 Lake District Outlying Fells Wainwrights are the 214 English peaks (known locally as fells ) described in Alfred Wainwright 's seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells (1955–66). They all lie within the boundary of the Lake District National Park in Cumbria , and all but one (Castle Crag) are over 1,000 feet (304.8 m) in height.
List of fells in the Lake District; List of Wainwrights (the 214 fells described in A. Wainwright's Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells) The Outlying Fells of Lakeland; List of Birketts (the 541 fells in Bill Birketts Complete Lakeland Fells) Middlesex Fells, a rocky highland just north of Boston, Massachusetts; Snaefell, Isle of Man; Nunatak
Pages in category "Fells of the Lake District" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 317 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Nab is a fell in the English Lake District. It has a moderate height of 576 metres (1,890 feet), and lies in the quieter eastern high ground between Ullswater and Haweswater Reservoir . The Nab is included in Alfred Wainwright 's list of Lakeland fells and many walkers feel compelled to climb it to complete their list of 'Wainwrights' even ...
: 59 of the 116 Outlying Fells Birketts are the 541 English peaks described in Bill Birkett 's 1994 guidebook, Complete Lakeland Fells . The author defined them as all hills within the boundary of the Lake District National Park in Cumbria which are over 1,000 feet (304.8 m) in height.
The Lake District National Park was created in 1951 covering an area of over 2,000 square kilometres (770 sq mi) and, although its population is only 42,000, over 10 million visitors arrive each year, mostly attracted by the lakes and fells. [1]
Great End is the most northerly mountain in the Scafell chain, in the English Lake District.From the south it is simply a lump continuing this chain. From the north, however, it appears as an immense mountain, with an imposing north face rising above Sprinkling Tarn (lake).