The Outlying Fells of Lakeland
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The Outlying Fells of Lakeland is a 1974 book written by Alfred Wainwright dealing with hills in and around the Lake District of England. It differs from Wainwright's Pictorial Guides in that each of its 56 chapters describes a walk, sometimes taking in several summits, rather than a single fell. This has caused some confusion on the part of authors attempting to prepare a definitive list of peaks. The Outlying Fells do not form part of the 214 hills generally accepted as making up the Wainwrights, but they are included in Category 2B of the Hill Walkers' Register maintained by the Long Distance Walkers Association.[1]
The book
The first edition was published in 1974 by The Westmorland Gazette. It was republished by Michael Joseph in 1992 (Template:ISBN) and a second edition, revised by Chris Jesty, was published by the Wainwright Society in 2020 (Template:ISBN).
The first edition is uniform with the seven volumes of Wainwright's Pictorial Guides, with a yellow band at head and foot of the dustjacket. The wording on the cover, in Wainwright's characteristic handwritten style, is:
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THE OUTLYING FELLS OF LAKELAND
being a Pictorial Guide
to the lesser fells
around the perimeter of Lakeland
written primarily for
old age pensioners and others
who can no longer climb high fells
but can still, within reason, potter
about on the short and easy slopes
and summits of the foothills.
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Below this, there is a pen sketch showing an elderly but sprightly walker approaching the summit of a small hill, and Wainwright's signature.
Fells included
The arrangement of chapters in the book is clockwise starting in the south east, with the first chapter devoted to Scout Scar, a walk starting at Kendal Town Hall.
The list at the back of Wainwright's book contains 110 named fells and summits. Close inspection shows seven of them to refer to other hills in the list, while Newton Fell has two summits. Thus:
- Cartmel Fell is the same as Ravens Barrow (page 42).
- Hollow Moor is the summit of Green Quarter Fell (page 14).
- Hooker Crag is the summit of Muncaster fell (page 186).
- Newton Fell includes Newton Fell (North) and Newton Fell (South) (page 53).
- Potter Fell is the name given to the hill whose summits are Brunt Knotts and Ulgraves (page 8).
- Lord's Seat is the summit of Whitbarrow (page 36).
- Williamson's Monument is the same as High Knott (page 18).
- Woodland Fell is the name of the moor of which Yew Bank and Wool Knott are high points (page 102).
The addition of the 12 nameless summits brings the number of Wainwright's Outlying Fells to 116. This is 14 more than the 102 hills listed in John M. Turner's New Combined Indexes to A. Wainwright's Pictorial Guides (second edition, Lingdales Press, 1984). Turner's list omits two tops explicitly mentioned in the book (St. John's Hill and Newton Fell South) and the 12 nameless summits, and it contains many inaccuracies.[2]
A second edition of Wainwright's book, revised by Chris Jesty, was published by Frances Lincoln in 2011 (Template:ISBN). It maintains the same format but uses red to highlight paths on the route diagrams, and includes updated content (e.g. for Staveley Fell where Jesty says (p. 49) "There must be many people who, encouraged ... by the first edition of this book, have turned left and ... been turned back by an uncrossable fence." before providing an alternative route.)
Highest and lowest
The highest three summits listed by Wainwright are:
- Walna Scar Script error: No such module "convert".
- Black Combe Script error: No such module "convert".
- Great Yarlside Script error: No such module "convert". according to Wainwright; in reality Script error: No such module "convert".[3][note 1]
The lowest summits are:
- Humphrey Head Script error: No such module "convert"., of which Wainwright says "A fell it certainly is not, being a meagre 172 feet above the sea..."
- Cartmel Fell/Raven's Barrow Script error: No such module "convert".
- Newton Fell South Script error: No such module "convert".
List of summits
The list below has been arranged in alphabetical order rather than height in order to align as far as possible with the list at the back of Wainwright's book. Summits are listed by the name used in the Database of British and Irish Hills,[4] with cross-references from other summit names used by Wainwright to the entries in this table. Each summit appears only once, with height and grid reference. The "page" column allows the list to be sorted into Wainwright's order of chapters, which is roughly geographical, moving clockwise round the area from Kendal in the east.
| Summit | Height (m) |
Relative height (m) |
Grid ref. | Chapter | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bannisdale Fell, Long Crag | 493 | 32 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 260 |
| Beacon Fell | 255 | 128 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Beacon Fell | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Bigland Barrow | 193 | 23 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Bigland Barrow | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Black Combe | 600 | 362 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Black Combe | 162 |
| Blawith Knott | 248 | 88 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Blawith Knott | 108 |
| Boat How | 337 | 81 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Boat How | 178 |
| Brant Fell | 191 | 65 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Brant Fell | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Brunt Knott | 427 | 21 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Potter Fell | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Buck Barrow | 549 | 72 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Whit Fell | 156 |
| Burn Moor | 543 | 23 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Whit Fell | 156 |
| Burney | 298 | 111 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Burney | 112 |
| Caermote Hill | 289 | 59 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Caermote Hill | 206 |
| Capplebarrow | 513 | 21 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 260 |
| Carron Crag | 314 | 66 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Carron Crag | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Cartmel Fell see Raven's Barrow | Cartmel Fell | Script error: No such module "sort". | |||
| Caw | 529 | 132 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Caw | 120 |
| Claife Heights | 270 | 177 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Claife Heights | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Clints Crags | 245 | 10 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Clints Crags | 204 |
| Cold Fell | 293 | 83 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Cold Fell | 196 |
| Cunswick Scar | 207 | 37 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Scout Scar | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Dent | 345 | 5 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Flat Fell and Dent | 198 |
| Dunmallet | 240 | 80 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Dunmallet | 214 |
| Dunnerdale Fells | 280 | 12 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Dunnerdale Fells | 132 |
| Faulds Brow | 344 | 26 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Faulds Brow | 210 |
| Fewling Stones | 508 | 11 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Seat Robert | 236 |
| Finsthwaite Heights | 180 | 0 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Finsthwaite Fell | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Flat Fell | 272 | 74 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Flat Fell and Dent | 198 |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | 528 | 40 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 260 |
| Grandsire | 251 | 80 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | School Knott | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Great Ladstones | 440 | 1 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Seat Robert | 236 |
| Great Saddle Crag | 560 | 2 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 242 |
| Great Stickle | 305 | 27 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Stickle Pike | 126 |
| Great Worm Crag | 427 | 32 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Great Worm Crag | 136 |
| Great Yarlside | 591[note 1] | 6 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 248 |
| Green Pikes | 420 | 4 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Caw | 120 |
| Gummer's How | 321 | 217 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Gummer's How | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Hampsfell | 220 | 1 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Hampsfell | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Hare Shaw | 503 | 13 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 224 |
| Harper Hills | 414 | 4 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 224 |
| Hesk Fell | 477 | 100 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Hesk Fell | 140 |
| Heughscar Hill | 375 | 48 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Heughscar Hill | 216 |
| High House Bank | 495 | 80 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 254 |
| High Knott | 275 | 56 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | High Knott | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| High Light Haw | 263 | 13 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Top o'Selside | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| High Wether Howe | 531 | 66 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Seat Robert | 236 |
| Hollow Moor, Green Quarter Fell | 426 | 78 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Green Quarter Fell | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Hooker Crag see Muncaster Fell | Muncaster Fell | 186 | |||
| Howes | 583 | 3 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Howes | 230 |
| Hugh's Laithes Pike | 415 | 2 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 224 |
| Hugill Fell | 265 | 11 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Hugill Fell | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Humphrey Head | 53 | 42 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Humphrey Head | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Irton Pike | 229 | 25 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Irton Pike | 182 |
| Kinmont Buck Barrow | 535 | 25 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Whit Fell | 156 |
| Knipescar Common, Knipe Scar | 342 | 8 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Knipescar Common | 220 |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | 331 | 21 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Stainton Pike | 150 |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | 284 | 24 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Stickle Pike | 126 |
| Lamb Pasture | 367 | 28 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 260 |
| Langhowe Pike | 400 | 10 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Seat Robert | 236 |
| Latterbarrow | 244 | 44 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Latterbarrow | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Little Yarlside | 516 | 9 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 248 |
| Long Crag see Bannisdale Fell, Long Crag | Script error: No such module "sort". | 260 | |||
| Lord's Seat, High House Fell | 524 | 36 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 254 |
| Lord's Seat, Whitbarrow see Whitbarrow | Whitbarrow | Script error: No such module "sort". | |||
| Low Light Haw | 250 | 16 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Top o'Selside | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Muncaster Fell, Hooker Crag | 231 | 194 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Muncaster Fell | 186 |
| Nabs Moor | 492 | 2 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Howes | 230 |
| Naddle High Forest, Naddle Horseshoe 1 | 435 | 28 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 224 |
| Newton Fell North | 239 | 0 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Newton Fell | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Newton Fell South, Dixon Heights | 177 | 37 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Newton Fell | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Orrest Head | 238 | 63 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Orrest Head | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | 370 | 72 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Hesk Fell | 140 |
| Pikes | 469 | 41 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Caw | 120 |
| Ponsonby Fell | 315 | 34 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Ponsonby Fell | 192 |
| Raven's Barrow, Cartmel Fell | 152 | 0 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Cartmel Fell | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Raven's Crag | 361 | 28 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Stickle Pike | 126 |
| Reston Scar | 255 | 20 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Reston Scar | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Robin Hood | 493 | 30 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 254 |
| Rough Crag | 319 | 70 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 144 |
| Script error: No such module "sort"., Caermote Hill N top | 285 | 7 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Caermote Hill | 206 |
| Scalebarrow Knott | 338 | 9 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 224 |
| School Knott | 247 | 32 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | School Knott | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Scout Scar | 233 | 3 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Scout Scar | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Seat How, Birker Moor | 311 | 58 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 144 |
| Seat Robert | 515 | 30 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Seat Robert | 236 |
| Setmurthy Common see Watch Hill, Setmurthy Common | Watch Hill | 202 | |||
| Sleddale Pike | 506 | 6 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 242 |
| Stainton Pike | 498 | 20 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Stainton Pike | 150 |
| Staveley Fell | 265 | 37 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Staveley Fell | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Stickle Pike | 375 | 116 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Stickle Pike | 126 |
| Stoupdale Head | 472 | 26 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Black Combe | 162 |
| Swinklebank Crag, Bannisdale Horseshoe 2 | 554 | 46 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 260 |
| Tarn Hill | 313 | 30 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Stickle Pike | 126 |
| Todd Fell | 401 | 21 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 260 |
| Top o'Selside | 334 | 5 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Top o'Selside | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Tottlebank Height | 236 | 26 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Blawith Knott | 108 |
| Ulgraves | 333 | 31 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Potter Fell | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Ulthwaite Rigg | 502 | 2 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 242 |
| Wallow Crag, Naddle Horseshoe 2 | 435 | 29 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 224 |
| Walna Scar | 621 | 15 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Walna Scar | 114 |
| Wasdale Pike | 565 | 5 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 248 |
| Watch Hill | 235 | 3 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Watch Hill | 202 |
| Watch Hill, Setmurthy Common | 254 | 157 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Watch Hill | 202 |
| Water Crag | 305 | 37 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 144 |
| Whatshaw Common | 485 | 66 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 248 |
| Whitbarrow (Lord's Seat) | 215 | 182 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Whitbarrow | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| White Combe | 417 | 4 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Black Combe | 162 |
| White Howe, Bannisdale | 530 | 73 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 260 |
| White Pike, Birkby Fell | 442 | 17 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 144 |
| Whiteside Pike | 397 | 47 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 260 |
| Whitfell | 573 | 221 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Whit Fell | 156 |
| Williamson's Monument see High Knott | High Knott | Script error: No such module "sort". | |||
| Woodend Height | 487 | 11 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 144 |
| Wool Knott | 223 | 53 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Woodland Fell | 102 |
| Yew Bank | 207 | 17 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Woodland Fell | 102 |
| Yoadcastle | 494 | 57 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 144 |
| Script error: No such module "sort". see Swinklebank Crag | Script error: No such module "sort". | 260 | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | 541 | 16 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 260 |
| Script error: No such module "sort". see The Forest | Script error: No such module "sort". | 260 | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | 411 | 11 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Green Quarter Fell | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Script error: No such module "sort". see Naddle High Forest | Script error: No such module "sort". | 224 | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". see Wallow Crag | Script error: No such module "sort". | 224 | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | 395 | 7 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort". | 224 |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | 395 | 27 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Potter Fell | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | 390 | 45 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Potter Fell | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | 247 | 32 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | School Knott | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Script error: No such module "sort". see Raven's Crag | Stickle Pike | 126 | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | 221 | 3 | Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". | Top o'Selside | Script error: No such module "sort". |
Map
The map marks the highest point reached on each of Wainwright's 56 walks. The number adjacent to each point gives the page number of the corresponding chapter in the book and the colour indicates the general height of the summit. Clicking a number provides a link to the article about the fell in question. Script error: No such module "Location map/multi".
See also
- List of Wainwrights
- List of Birketts
- List of fells in the Lake District – alphabetical and height listings
- List of hills in the Lake District – topographical groupings
Notes
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- ↑ a b The Database of British and Irish Hills records Wainwright's Great Yarside summit as hill 2575, Template:Cvt, and a nearby higher Great Yarlside summit as hill 3661 at Template:Cvt. An explanatory note suggests that Wainwright obtained his figure from a misprint in some editions of the OS maps.
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References
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ For more up-to-date heights, grid references and other data, see the Database of British and Irish Hills
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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Sources
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External links
- Wainwright Walks on the Outlying Fells
- Database of British and Irish Hills
- Wainwrights On The Air based on Wainwright's Hills – English Lake District
- Alfred Wainwright Books & Memorabilia
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