Haycock

#908 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Nature, Natural attraction, Cliff

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Haycock is a mountain in the western part of the English Lake District. It rises between Scoat Fell and Caw Fell to the south of Ennerdale and the north of Wasdale. Haycock is an imposing dome-shaped fell, its popularity with walkers diminished somewhat by its remoteness. It can be climbed from either valley and offers fine mountain views. ()

Elevation: 2615 ftProminence: 308 ftCoordinates: 54°29'13"N, 3°19'44"W

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Haycock – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Church of St Olaf, Bleaberry Tarn, Ennerdale Water, Scoat Fell.

3.3 miSE
Church, Historical place
Church of St Olaf, Lake District National Park
85 min walk • St Olaf's Church in Wasdale Head, Cumbria, is England's smallest parish church. The earliest record of the church is from 1550, though it probably predates this, and it is likely that there was an earlier church on this site.
3.2 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Bleaberry Tarn
82 min walk • Bleaberry Tarn is a small natural mountain tarn near Buttermere in the English Lake District. Located at NY165154, it lies in a corrie below the Lakeland fells of Red Pike and High Stile, backed by Chapel Crags on the ridge between them.
3.3 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Ennerdale Water
85 min walk • Ennerdale Water is the most westerly lake in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. It is a glacial lake, with a maximum depth of 150 feet, and is ½ mile to a mile wide and 2½ miles long.
1.5 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Cliff
Scoat Fell
39 min walk • Scoat Fell is a fell in the western part of the English Lake District. It stands at the head of the Mosedale Horseshoe with its back to Ennerdale.
1 miN
Protected area
Pillar and Ennerdale Fells, Lake District National Park
27 min walk • Pillar and Ennerdale Fells is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ennerdale, Cumbria, England. Protected for its biological interest, the site is named after Pillar, which at 892 metres is the eighth-highest mountain in the Lake District, and other fells in the same range.
0.5 miW
Hill
Caw Fell, Lake District National Park
13 min walk • Caw Fell is a fell in the English Lake District, standing between Haycock the Lank Rigg group. It occupies a wide upland area with Ennerdale to the north and Blengdale to the south.
2.4 miS
Hill
Middle Fell, Eskdale Green
62 min walk • Middle Fell is a hill or fell in the English Lake District. It is a satellite of Seatallan standing above the northern shore of Wastwater.
1.6 miS
Hill
Seatallan, Eskdale Green
41 min walk • Seatallan is a mountain in the western part of the English Lake District. It is rounded, grassy and fairly unassuming, occupying a large amount of land.
3 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Red Pike
78 min walk • Red Pike is a fell in the High Stile range in the western English Lake District, which separates Ennerdale from the valley of Buttermere and Crummock Water. It is 2,476 ft high.
3 miS
Hill
Buckbarrow, Eskdale Green
78 min walk • Buckbarrow is a small fell in the English Lake District overlooking the western end of Wastwater. It is featured in Alfred Wainwright’s Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells and is given a height of 1,410 ft approximately; however, the Ordnance Survey and other guidebooks now give an altitude of 423 m.
3 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
High Stile
77 min walk • High Stile is a mountain in the western part of the Lake District in North West England. It is the eleventh-highest English Marilyn, standing 807 metres high, and has a relative height of 362 metres.