Ready for adventure in the Lake District Fells? Cicerone’s Walking the Lake District Fells guides are your ultimate fell-by-fell companions. A series of eight guidebooks, one for each of the main valley bases, cover ALL the routes up ALL the fells in each area – that’s 230 fells in total. 

This guidebook covers 36 Lakeland summits accessible from the Kentmere, Haweswater and Ullswater valleys. Highlights include High Street, Place Fell and the Kentmere horseshoe, further east lie less well-known summits that offer solitude and magnificent views. Suggestions for longer ridge routes are also given. 

Those with some previous hiking experience will find all the info needed to climb the fells with confidence, plus a fresh perspective on both classic and lesser-known fells. Keen summit-baggers can use our tick lists to tick off the fells as they go. 

What sets these guidebooks apart from the rest? 

• Complete coverage – every route covered, not just the main one.  
• Devise your own routes – a variety of ascents, descents, and ridge routes, so you can choose to climb one fell or combine routes to craft your own adventure. 
• Up-to-date route information – complete route description and HARVEY mapping for each fell. 
• Hand-drawn topos and panoramas – easily see the routes up each fell and views from the top. 
• Fell-friendly routes – designed to minimise environmental impact.  

Map keys
Area covered by this guide
Author preface
Starting points

Introduction
Valley bases
Fix the Fells
Using this guide
Safety and access
Additional online resources

Fells
1    Angletarn Pikes
2    Arthur’s Pike
3    Beda Fell
4    Bonscale Pike
5    Branstree
6    Brock Crags
7    Caudale Moor
8    Froswick
9    Gray Crag
10    Grayrigg Forest
11    Grey Crag
12    Hallin Fell
13    Harter Fell
14    Hartsop Dodd
15    High Raise
16    High Street
17    Ill Bell
18    Kentmere Pike
19    Kidsty Pike
20    Loadpot Hill
21    Mardale Ill Bell
22    Place Fell
23    Rampsgill Head
24    Rest Dodd
25    Sallows
26    Selside Pike
27    Shipman Knotts
28    Steel Knotts
29    Tarn Crag
30    Thornthwaite Crag
31    Troutbeck Tongue
32    Wansfell
33    Wether Hill
34    Whinfell Beacon
35    Winterscleugh
36    Yoke

Ridge routes
1    The Kentmere Horseshoe
2    The Martindale Round
3    The Blea Water Circuit
4    The Borrowdale Round

More to explore
Useful contacts
A fellranger's glossary
The Lake District fells

Seasons

Year-round walking. Winter walks, even on the lower fells, are not for the inexperienced or under-equipped.

Centres

Haweswater, Bampton, Shap, Tebay, Grayrigg, Sadgill/Longsleddale, Kentmere, Troutbeck, Ambleside, Hartsop, Patterdale, Howtown, Pooley Bridge, Askham

Difficulty

Straightforward ascents on sometimes clear, sometimes faint paths, and occasionally pathless terrain, to be used as a basis for readers' own walks. Navigational skills are needed but no specialist equipment. Any scrambling is easy and non-scrambling alternatives are always provided.

Must See

Explore the classic summits in the Lakes such as High Street, Place Fell and the Kentmere fells, and an inspiring introduction to lesser-known Lakeland fells, including the 2016 new additions to the national park, Whinfell Beacon, Grayrigg Forest and Winterscleugh

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