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Castle Crag

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Castle Crag rises to 290 m (951 ft) in Cumbria. It is one of the 214 Wainwrights — the Lake District fells of Alfred Wainwright's Pictorial Guides. It stands inside the Lake District National Park. Nearby hills include High Spy, Grange Fell (Cumbria) and High Spy North Top.

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Photo of the Lake District, a National Park in Cumbria, north west England.Iconic

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England's highest mountains and deepest lakes — the fells that invented British hillwalking.

Photo along the Cumbria Way, a 70-mile long-distance path running from Ulverston to Carlisle, north west England.

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Photo of The Bowder Stone, a rock formation near Rosthwaite in the Lake District, Cumbria, north west England.Highlight

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Rock formation near Rosthwaite

An enormous house-sized boulder balanced in Borrowdale, climbed by a wooden staircase to its top.

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Photo along the Coast to Coast, a 190-mile National Trail running from St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay, England.Highlight

Coast to Coast

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Photo of Ashness Bridge, a landmark near Watendlath in the Lake District, Cumbria, north west England.Iconic

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Landmark near Watendlath

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Photo of Watendlath, a village in the Lake District, Cumbria, north west England.Iconic

Watendlath

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