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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.
A 912-square-mile area of fells, lakes and market towns, the Lake District is one of the UK’s most popular destinations for a staycation. Britain’s largest National Park is home to England’s ...
Sheffield Pike (possibly meaning "the peak above the sheep fold") is a fell in the English Lake District, a prominent intermediate top on one of the eastern ridges of Stybarrow Dodd. It separates and stands high above the Glencoyne and Glenridding valleys, on the eastern side of the Helvellyn range in the Eastern Fells and it looks down onto ...
The walk links with the Five Weirs Walk at Lady's Bridge, and the Trans Pennine Trail at Oughtibridge. [1] In November 2019, the Trust was renamed the Upper Don Trail Trust to emphasise the shared use aspect of the route and its ambitions extended north of Oughtibridge to Stocksbridge and the Peak District beyond. [2]
That is understandable, since as of 2019, over 87% of the Peak District was being farmed. [119] A State of the Park report indicated that in 2019, "at least 1 in 3 businesses in the Peak District [were] in the agricultural, forestry and fishing industries". [121] Tourism in the park and Derbyshire was negatively affected by the pandemic. [122]
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) Skiddaw, 931 m (3054 ft) Great End, 910 m (2986 ft) Bowfell, 902 m (2959 ft) Great Gable, 899 m (2949 ft) Pillar, 892 m (2927 ft)
The Peak District Boundary Walk is a circular 190-mile (310 km) walking trail, starting and finishing at Buxton and broadly following the boundary of the Peak District, Britain's first national park. The route was developed by the Friends of the Peak District (a branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England ) and was launched on 17 June 2017.
Peak Absolute height (m) Relative height (m) Grid reference; Kinder Scout: 636: 496.6: Bleaklow: 633 128 Higher Shelf Stones: 621 15 Grindslow Knoll: 601 15 Black Hill