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Base Brown rises to 646 m (2,119 ft) in Cumbria. It is one of the 214 Wainwrights — the Lake District fells of Alfred Wainwright's Pictorial Guides. It is one of 436 hills the Albion Guide lists in Cumbria. It stands inside the Lake District National Park.

For more of the same, Brandreth and Green Gable are close by.

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