Seathwaite Fell
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| Seathwaite Fell
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| Elevation | 632 m (2,073 feet) |
| Location | Lake District, England
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Seathwaite Fell is an area of the Lake District in Cumbria, England. The area is very rugged with several small summits, two of which have Nuttall status. The summit plateau is studded with numerous small tarns and hillocks. The earliest pencils were made of graphite found on Seathwaite Fell, which was used by the local farmers for marking their sheep.
The fell is invariably climbed from Seathwaite, taking the bridleway from Stockley Bridge which goes to Styhead Tarn for a kilometre, passing the waterfall of Taylorgill Force, before striking south westerly over rocky terrain to reach the cairned "Wainwright" summit which only reaches a height of 601 metres (1,970 feet). The highest point of the fell (also called Great Slack) is 500 metres further on and has an elevation of 632 metres. Seathwaite Fell South Top (631 metres) is a further 300 metres southerly and this is ranked as a Nuttall top.
