Crinkle Crags, Grasmere

Name: Crinkle Crags
Address: Grasmere, United Kingdom

#8 among attractions in Grasmere

Nature, Cliff, Natural attraction, Hill

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Crinkle Crags is a fell in the English Lake District in the county of Cumbria. It forms part of two major rings of mountains, surrounding the valleys of Great Langdale and Upper Eskdale. The name reflects the fell's physical appearance as its summit ridge is a series of five rises and depressions that are very distinctive from the valley floor. In Old English, cringol means twisted or wrinkled. ()

Elevation: 2818 ftCoordinates: 54°26'21"N, 3°9'25"W

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Grasmere United Kingdom

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Crinkle Crags – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Bowfell, Scafell Pike, Loft Crag, Angle Tarn.

0.7 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cliff
Bowfell, Lake District National Park
18 min walk • Bowfell is a pyramid-shaped mountain lying at the heart of the English Lake District, in the Southern Fells area. It is the sixth-highest mountain in the Lake District and one of the most popular of the Lake District fells for walkers.
2.4 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Scafell Pike, Lake District National Park
62 min walk • Scafell Pike is the highest and the most prominent mountain in England, at an elevation of 978 metres above sea level. It is located in the Lake District National Park, in Cumbria, and is part of the Southern Fells and the Scafell massif.
2 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Cliff
Loft Crag
50 min walk • Loft Crag is a fell in the English Lake District, situated 9 kilometres west of Ambleside in the valley of Great Langdale.
1.4 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Angle Tarn, Lake District National Park
36 min walk • Angle Tarn is a tarn to the north of Bowfell in the English Lake District. It drains into Langstrath Beck. This should not be confused with Angle Tarn, a larger lake with the same name about 11.5 miles to the south-west, also within the Lake District National Park.
2.3 miSW
Hill
Hard Knott, Lake District National Park
58 min walk • Hard Knott is a fell in the English Lake District, at the head of Eskdale.
2.4 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cliff
Broad Crag, Lake District National Park
61 min walk • Broad Crag is a fell in the English Lake District. It is the fifth-highest peak in England at a height of 934 metres.
1.9 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Pike of Stickle, Lake District National Park
48 min walk • Pike of Stickle, also known as Pike o’ Stickle, is a fell in the English Lake District. It reaches a height of 709 metres and is situated in the central part of the national park in the valley of Great Langdale.
2.3 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Harrison Stickle
58 min walk • Harrison Stickle is a fell in the central part of the English Lake District, situated above Great Langdale. The fell is one of the three fells which make up the picturesque Langdale Pikes, the others being Pike of Stickle and Loft Crag.
2.1 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Ill Crag, Lake District National Park
53 min walk • Ill Crag is a fell in the English Lake District. At 935 metres, it is the fourth-highest peak in England, after Scafell Pike, Sca Fell, and Helvellyn. Ill Crag overlooks Eskdale and has splendid views across to Bowfell and Crinkle Crags.
1.5 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Esk Pike, Lake District National Park
40 min walk • Esk Pike is a fell in the English Lake District, one of the cirque of hills forming the head of Eskdale.
2.4 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Great End, Lake District National Park
61 min walk • Great End is the most northerly mountain in the Scafell chain, in the English Lake District. From the south it is simply a lump continuing this chain.