Loweswater Fells
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The Loweswater Fells are a compact group of fells amongst the Western Fells of the Lake District, all within Cumberland.
The highest of this group is Blake Fell, at 1,880 feet.
Alfred Wainwright compared the Loweswater Fells have been compared to the digits of a hand, [1] radiating out south-westward from the "palm" centred on Loweswater village.
From the west the fells in this vast hand are:
- Burnbank Fell,
- Blake Fell
- Gavel Fell
- Hen Comb and
- Mellbreak, the "thumb"
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See also
- The Range of the Awful Hand, in the Southern Uplands
References
- ↑ Wainwright, Alfred: A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Book Seven — The Western Fells (1966)