Castle Crag

#872 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Nature, Natural attraction, Cliff

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Castle Crag is a hill in the North Western Fells of the English Lake District. It is the smallest hill included in Alfred Wainwright's influential Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, the only Wainwright below 1,000 feet. ()

Elevation: 951 ftProminence: 246 ftCoordinates: 54°32'12"N, 3°10'9"W

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Castle Crag – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Bowder Stone, High Spy, Maiden Moor, Castle Crag.

0.6 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Rock
Bowder Stone, Borrowdale
15 min walk • The Bowder Stone is a large andesite lava boulder, that fell 200 metres from the Bowder Crag on Kings How between 13,500 and 10,000 years ago. The stone is situated in Borrowdale, Cumbria, England, at grid reference NY25401639.
0.6 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
High Spy
17 min walk • High Spy is a fell in the English Lake District it is situated on the ridge that separates the Newlands Valley from Borrowdale, eight kilometres south of Keswick.
1.2 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Maiden Moor
31 min walk • Maiden Moor is a fell in the English Lake District, it stands 6 km south of the town of Keswick and is part of the high ground that separates the Newlands Valley and Borrowdale, it has a modest height of 576 m and so fails to be mentioned on many UK mountain lists but it does...
0.4 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Forts and castles
Castle Crag, Borrowdale
11 min walk • Castle Crag is a hill in the North Western Fells of the English Lake District. It is the smallest hill included in Alfred Wainwright's influential Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, the only Wainwright below 1,000 feet.
1.2 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Brund Fell, Borrowdale
32 min walk • Grange Fell is a small fell in the English Lake District in the county of Cumbria, situated in the Borrowdale valley overlooking the villages of Grange in Borrowdale and Rosthwaite.
0.5 miSE
View point, Natural attraction, Cave
Millican Dalton Cave, Borrowdale
12 min walk • Millican Dalton was a British self-styled "Professor of Adventure".