Loweswater Fells

File:Burnbank Fell and Loweswater from Whiteside.jpg

Burnbank Fell and Loweswater

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, 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"

File:Blake Fell.jpg Blake Fell

File:Gavel Fell from Great Borne.jpg Gavel Fell from Great Borne

File:Hen Comb from Mosedale 1.JPG Hen Comb from the footpath in Mosedale

File:Kirkstile Inn, Loweswater.jpg Mellbreak from the Kirkstile Inn, Loweswater

See also

• The Range of the Awful Hand, in the Southern Uplands