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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.
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.
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 Lake District is a major sanctuary for the red squirrel and has the largest population in England (out of the estimated 140,000 red squirrels in the United Kingdom, compared with about 2.5 million grey squirrels). [41] The Lake District is home to a range of bird species, [42] and the RSPB maintain a reserve in Haweswater. [43]
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
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]
The Northern Fells are a part of the Cumbrian Mountains in the Lake District of England. Including Skiddaw, they occupy a wide area to the north of Keswick. Smooth, sweeping slopes predominate, with a minimum of tarns or crags. Blencathra in the south-east of the group is the principal exception to this trend.