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Grike

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Grike tops out at 488 m 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.

For more of the same, Crag Fell and Lank Rigg are close by. The nearest railway station is Corkickle, 11.2 km to the west.

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