The Outlying Fells

At the end of volume 7, The Western Fells, Wainwright states unequivocally that “I reject suggestions of a Book Eight, The Outlying Fells.” Nevertheless, seven years after he completed The Pictorial Guides, this volume did indeed emerge. It basically contains all of those identifiable peaks within the National Park boundary but which lay outside the ‘straight line’ boundaries that Wainwright had used to define his original set of fells (full details on how he did this are given in the introduction at the beginning of each of the 7 volumes).

Black Combe, viewed from some 25 miles distant, near Quernmore – the building is the Ashton Memorial, Lancaster

The fells in Book Eight are not all given one chapter each. Several chapters describe walks that take in more than one fell. There are fifty-six chapters in the book and 116 summits, including various nameless ones, giving a total of 330 Wainwrights.

All the 116 Outlying Fells have now been bagged twice: my last one being Irton Pike (on 8th June 2023).

• Bannisdale Horseshoe (chapter contains 9 summits) – bagged on walk 93. 4 of the fells were then done again on walk 117. The remaining five were rebagged on walk 179.
• Beacon Fell (1 summit) – walk 78 and walk 135.
• Bigland Barrow (1): walk 86 and walk 153.
• Black Combe (3) [see also picture above] – walk 74 and walk 111.
• Blawith Knott (2)- walk 78 and walk 90 [pictured]
  

  View from Blawith Knott, looking south

• Boat How (1) – walk 73 and walk 181.
• Brant Fell (1) – walk 83 and walk 155.
• Burney (1) – walk 90 and walk 142.
• Caermote Hill (2) – walk 79 and walk 144.
• Carron Crag (1) – walk 98 and walk 140.
• Cartmel Fell (1): walk 95 and walk 158.
• Caw (3) – walk 99 and walk 199.
• Claife Heights (1) – walk 76 and walk 114.
• Clints Crags (1): walk 92 and walk 166.
• Cold Fell (1): walk 100 and walk 197.
• Crookdale Horseshoe (3). Walk 102 and walk 169.
• Devoke Water circuit (6) . Three were done on walk 91; the other three on walk 101 [pictured]. Two then done a second time on walk 133, and the remaining four on walk 188.

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  Devoke Water, Water Crag and some very cute little fluffy clouds

• Dunmallet (1): walk 84 and walk 124.
• Dunnerdale Fells (1, despite the plural). walk 82 and walk 186.
• Faulds Brow (1): walk 94 and walk 193.
• Finsthwaite Heights (1). walk 75 and walk 153.
• Flat Fell and Dent (2). walk 103 and walk 127.
• Great Worm Crag (1). walk 40 and walk 133.
• Green Quarter Fell (2): walk 87 and walk 175.
  

  Gummers How, at the south end of Windermere, seen across the misty lowlands on walk 29

• Gummer’s How (1) [see picture]: walk 86 and walk 158.
• Hampsfell (1). walk 72 and walk 122.
• Hesk Fell (2) [pictured below]: walk 91 and walk 159.
• Heughscar Hill (1): walk 84 and walk 137.
• High Knott (1): walk 97 and walk 138.
• Howes (2), walk 81 and walk 117.
• Hugill Fell (1): walk 97 and walk 109.
• Humphrey Head (1). Walk 72 and walk 122.
• Irton Pike (1) –  walk 73 and walk 207a.
• Knipescar Common (1) – walk 88 and walk 137.
• Latterbarrow (1) – walk 76 and walk 114.
• Muncaster Fell (1) – walk 20a and walk 180.
• Naddle Horseshoe (7): walk 89. Two of the summits then done on walk 117; the other five on walk 173.
• Newton Fell (2). One summit bagged on walk 72 and walk 119; the other walk 86 and walk 158.
• Orrest Head (1) – walk 12 and walk 83.
• Ponsonby Fell (1): walk 100 and walk 152a.
• Potter Fell (4). Walk 71 and walk 109.
  

  Summit shelter on the top of Scout Scar. Built in 1912, restored in 2002.

• Reston Scar (1): walk 97 and walk 109.
• School Knott (3) – walk 83 and walk 155.
• Scout Scar (2) [pictured]. Walk 77 and walk 130.
• Seat Robert (5): walk 102 and walk 170.
  

• Stainton Pike (2). One summit bagged on walk 85 and walk 159. The other on walk 101 and walk 188.
• Staveley Fell (1). Walk 95 and walk 158.
• Stickle Pike (5). Walk 82. Two of the summits  rebagged on walk 167, the remaining three on walk 186.
• Top o’Selside (4) – walk 98 and walk 202.
• Walna Scar (1) – walk 96 and walk 99. [This is my Wainwright with the shortest gap between first and second visits.)
• Wasdale Horseshoe (4) — walk 80 and walk 169.
• Watch Hill (2) – walk 92 and walk 166.
• Wet Sleddale Horseshoe (3), walk 81. One of the summits rebagged on walk 102. The other two on walk 169.
• Whit Fell (4), walk 85. Two of the summits reached a second time on walk 111. The remaining two on walk 159.
  

  Lord’s Seat, the highest part of Whitbarrow, from the south

• Whitbarrow (pictured) (1): walk 95 and walk 119.
• Woodland Fell (2) – walk 78 and walk 135.