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High Seat (Cumbria)

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High Seat (Cumbria) tops out at 609 m in Cumbria. It is listed among the 214 Wainwrights — the Lake District fells of Alfred Wainwright's Pictorial Guides. It stands within the Lake District National Park. For more of the same, Bleaberry Fell and High Tove are close by.

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

Lake District

You’re inside itNational Park near Grasmere

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

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

Watendlath

Village

Remote tarn-side hamlet reached by a single lane and a packhorse bridge, National Trust-owned in a hanging valley above Borrowdale.

2.2 km SW · Cumbria

Photo of Lodore Falls, a waterfall near Grange-in-Borrowdale in the Lake District, Cumbria, north west England.Highlight

Lodore Falls

Waterfall near Grange-in-Borrowdale

Borrowdale waterfall spilling through boulders behind the Lodore hotel, made famous by Robert Southey's tumbling poem.

2.3 km W

Photo of Thirlmere, a reservoir near Watendlath in the Lake District, Cumbria, north west England.Highlight

Thirlmere

Reservoir near Watendlath

Dammed and raised to supply Manchester, its forested shores run beneath the long ridge of Helvellyn.

3.2 km SE

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

Ashness Bridge

Landmark near Watendlath

Perhaps the most photographed packhorse bridge in the Lakes, framing Derwentwater and Skiddaw from the Watendlath lane.

3.5 km W

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

National Trail

Wainwright's own invention: St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay through three national parks.

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