Castle Crag

Castle Crag
Castle Crag from the south, with Derwent Water in the background
Highest point
Elevation290 m (950 ft)
Prominencec. 75 m
Parent peakHigh Spy
ListingWainwright
Coordinates54°31′58″N 3°09′43″W / 54.53278°N 3.16207°W / 54.53278; -3.16207
Geography
Castle Crag is located in the Lake District
Castle Crag
Castle Crag
Location in Lake District, UK
LocationCumbria, England
Parent rangeLake District, North Western Fells
OS gridNY249159
Topo mapOS Landranger 89, 90, Explorer OL4

Castle Crag is a hill in the North Western Fells of the English Lake District. It is the smallest hill included in Alfred Wainwright's influential Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, the only Wainwright below 1,000 feet (300 m).

Wainwright accorded Castle Crag the status of a separate fell because it "is so magnificently independent, so ruggedly individual, so aggressively unashamed of its lack of inches, that less than justice would be done by relegating it to a paragraph in the High Spy chapter."[1] Subsequent guidebooks have not always agreed: Castle Crag is one of only two Wainwrights not included in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells.[2]

  1. ^ Alfred Wainwright: A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Book 6, The North Western Fells: Westmorland Gazette (1964): ISBN 0-7112-2459-5
  2. ^ Bill Birkett: Complete Lakeland Fells: Collins Willow (1994): ISBN 0-00-713629-3