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Helvellyn, Westmorland and Cumberland

Helvellyn

Helvellyn is a mountain marking the border of Westmorland and Cumberland, in the Lake District, the apex of the Eastern Fells. At 3,117 feet above sea level, its summit the highest point in Westmorland, providing its county top, and indeed is the highest point in the Lake District after Scafell Pike and Scafell, and the highest mountain in England after those latter fells.

The name is probably derived from the Cumbric language for 'yellow moor'; hal velyn. (Read more)

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