The Outlying Fells of Lakeland

Beacon Fell, looking across Beacon Tarn.

The Outlying Fells of Lakeland is a 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 it describes a series of walks, some of them taking in several summits, rather than devoting a chapter to each 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 comprising the Wainwrights, but they are included in Category 2B of the Hill Walkers Register maintained by the Long Distance Walkers Association.

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. For more up-to-date heights, grid references and other data, see Database of British Hills.

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.

1. Beacon Fell
2. Bigland Barrow
3. Black Combe
4. Blawith Knott
5. Boat How
6. Brant Fell
7. Brunt Knott
8. Buck Barrow
9. Burn Moor
10. Burney
11. Caermote Hill
12. Capplebarrow
13. Carron Crag
14. Caw
15. Claife Heights
16. Clints Crags
17. Cold Fell
18. Cunswick Scar
19. Dent
20. Dunmallet
21. Dunnerdale Fells
22. Faulds Brow
23. Fewling Stones
24. Finsthwaite Heights
25. Flat Fell
26. Grandsire
27. Great Ladstones
28. Great Saddle Crag
29. Great Stickle
30. Great Worm Crag
31. Great Yarlside
32. Green Pikes
33. Gummer's How
34. Hampsfell
35. Hare Shaw
36. Harper Hills
37. Hesk Fell
38. Heughscar Hill
39. High House Bank
40. High Knott
41. High Light Haw
42. High Wether Howe
43. Hollow Moor
44. Howes
45. Hugh's Laithes Pike
46. Hugill Fell
47. Humphrey Head
48. Irton Pike
49. Kinmont Buck Barrow
50. Knipescar Common
51. Lamb Pasture
52. Langhowe Pike
53. Latterbarrow
54. Little Yarlside
55. Long Crag
56. Lord's Seat (Crookdale)
57. Low Light Haw
58. Muncaster Fell - Hooker Crag
59. Nabs Moor
60. Newton Fell North
61. Newton Fell South (Dixon Heights)
62. Orrest Head
63. Pikes
64. Ponsonby Fell
65. Raven's Barrow (Cartmel Fell)
66. Reston Scar
67. Robin Hood
68. Rough Crag
69. Scalebarrow Knott
70. School Knott
71. Scout Scar
72. Seat How
73. Seat Robert
74. Setmurthy Common
75. Sleddale Pike
76. St. John's Hill
77. Stainton Pike
78. Staveley Fell
79. Stickle Pike
80. Stoupdale Head
81. Tarn Hill
82. The Knott
83. The Knott
84. The Pike
85. Todd Fell
86. Top o'Selside
87. Tottlebank Height
88. Ulgraves
89. Ulthwaite Rigg
90. Walna Scar
91. Wasdale Pike
92. Watch Hill
93. Water Crag
94. Whatshaw Common
95. Whitbarrow (Lord's Seat)
96. White Combe
97. White Howe
98. White Pike
99. Whiteside Pike
100. Whitfell
101. Woodend Height
102. Wool Knott
103. Yew Bank
104. Yoadcastle
105. nameless (Bannisdale Horseshoe - Ancrow Brow N)
106. nameless (Bannisdale Horseshoe - Swinklebank Crag)
107. nameless (Bannisdale Horseshoe - The Forest)
108. nameless (Green Quarter)
109. nameless (Naddle Horseshoe - 2)
110. nameless (Naddle Horseshoe - 3)
111. nameless (Naddle Horseshoe - Naddle High Forest)
112. nameless (Potter Fell - 1)
113. nameless (Potter Fell - 2)
114. nameless (School Knott)
115. nameless (Stickle Pike - Raven's Crag)
116. nameless (Top o'Selside - Brock Barrow)

References

• Wainwright, A (1974). The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. 

External links

• Wainwright Walks on the Outlying Fells
• theLakelandFells
• Striding Edge
• Database of British Hills