The Lake District - The Western Fells

The Western Fells lie within a wide sector, driving deep into the heart of Lakeland at Sty Head. They are bounded in the northwest by the Cocker Valley, ‘jewelled by the lovely lakes of Buttermere and Crummock Water’. South-west their boundary is Wasdale, running towards the sea.

The rugged territory around Sty Head is crowded with fine peaks: the hoary old favourite, Great Gable, the magnificent Pillar, the fascinating Haystacks and the exhilarating spine of the High Stile ridge. Further west the slopes are smooth and rounded, declining into grassy foothills and rolling sheep pastures – terrain described by Wainwright as splendid walking country, but comparatively unexciting and unfrequented.

Great Gable (899m)
Pillar (892m)
Scoat Fell (841m)
Steeple (819m)
High Stile (806m)
Kirk Fell (802m)
Green Gable (801m)
Haycock (797m)
Kirk Fell East Top (787m)
Coming soon
Pillar Rock (755m)
High Crag (744m)
Little Gowder Crag (733m)
Brandreth (715m)
Caw Fell (697m)
Grey Knotts (697m)
Seatallan (692m)
Fleetwith Pike (648m)
Base Brown (646m)
Dodd (Buttermere) (641m)
Iron Crag (Ennerdale Fell) (640m)
 Coming soon
 Honister Crag (Black Star) (634m)
Yewbarrow (628m)
Looking Stead (Pillar) (627m)
Great Borne (616m)
Yewbarrow North Top (Stirrup Crag) (616m)
Haystacks (597m)
Middle Fell (582m)
Blake Fell (573m)
Lank Rigg (541m)
Gavel Fell (573m)
Crag Fell (523m)
Mellbreak (512m)
Hen Comb (509m)
Grike (488m)
Burnbank Fell (475m)
Low Fell (423m)
Buckbarrow (420m)
Fellbarrow (416m)

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