Explore the Lake District's Central Fells with a Cicerone Guidebook
The Central Fells
by Mark Richards
From the Lakeland Fellranger series, this guidebook covers 28 summits in the Central Fells of the Lake District with a wide range of ascents. Great fell days are to be had here, in the high ground of the Lakes between Great Langdale and Keswick. With clear Harvey map extracts and the author's inimitable passion and flair. More...
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The Central Fells of the English Lake District comprise the high ground between Great Langdale and Keswick. The area is flanked to the west by Stake Pass, Langstrath, Borrowdale and Derwentwater, and to the east by Grasmere, Dunmail Raise and Thirlmere. While the finest scenic moments tend to be around its periphery, the interior also offers many great opportunities for delightful day walks. Author Mark Richards combines his passion for the Lake District and artistic flair with all the information the experienced walker needs to explore and enjoy the Central Fells.
The range is generally of a lower elevation, with few narrow ridges, and has no incisive roads. But, it also harbours heather-clad fells, quiet dales such as Wythburn, Greenburn and Shoulthwaite, and, to cap it all, superlative viewpoints at many levels from Loughrigg Terrace to High Raise.
??For each of the 28 hills covered, this guidebook offers:?
• a dedicated chapter, with full descriptions of a range of new and old routes
?• full-colour Harvey maps and clear elevation diagrams
• detailed summit panoramas?
• lots of inspiring photographs.??
This guidebook is one of the first to be published in Cicerone’s 8-volume Lakeland Fellranger series, which provides a comprehensive new guide to the fells of the English Lake District, with a selection of new routes up 227 hills.
Activities
Walking and (occasional optional) scramblingSeasons
Suitable all-year round walking. Winter walks, even on the lower fells of the Lake District, is not for the inexperienced or under-equipped.Centres
Great Langdale, Chapel Stile, Ambleside, Keswick, BorrowdaleDifficulty
Straightforward, short ascents, often not on clear paths, to be used as a basis for readers’ own walks. Navigational skills needed but no specialist equipment. Any scrambling is easy and non-scrambling options are always provided.Must See
A fresh perspective on classic summits in the Lakes like the Langdale Pikes, Silver How and Sergeant Man, and inspiring introduction to lesser-known Lakeland fells such as Bleaberry Fell, High Rigg and Thunacar Knott, with crystal-clear Harvey mapping and the author’s detailed elevation diagrams and panoramas.














