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77 relations: Alfred Wainwright, Andrew Breeze, Arête, Asset of community value, Bannerdale Crags, Baryte, Ben Fogle, Bowfell, Castlerigg stone circle, Cheviot Hills, Chris Bonington, Circular sector, Cirque, Companies House, Copper, Crinkle Crags, Cross Fell, Cumbria, Cumbric, Derwentwater, England, Esk Pike, Far Eastern Fells, Fell, Forest of Bowland, Galloway, Grasmoor, Great Gable, Great Whernside, Greywacke, Grisedale Pike, Head for heights, Helvellyn range, High Stile, Hugh Lowther, 8th Earl of Lonsdale, Isle of Man, Keswick, Cumbria, Kirk Fell, Lake District, Lead, Limonite, List of Wainwrights, Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles, Lord of the manor, Marilyn (geography), Melvyn Bragg, Mickle Fell, Middle Irish, Middle Welsh, Mourne Mountains, ..., Mudstone, Mungrisdale Common, National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, Northern Fells, Old Man of Coniston, Ordnance Survey, Ordovician, Pennines, Penrith, Cumbria, Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Pillar (Lake District), Richard Coates, River Caldew, Saddle, Scafell Pike, Scrambling, Siltstone, Skiddaw, Souther Fell, Southern Uplands, Tarn (lake), Thirlmere, Threlkeld, Wales, Wild Boar Fell, World War II, Zinc. Expand index (27 more) »
Alfred Wainwright
Alfred Wainwright ("A.W.") MBE (17 January 1907 – 20 January 1991) was a British fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator.
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Andrew Breeze
Andrew Breeze (born 6 July 1954), MA, DipCeltStud, PhD, FSA, FRHistS, has been a profesor de filología at the University of Navarra since 1987.
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Arête
Clouds Rest in Yosemite National Park is an arête. An arête is a narrow ridge of rock which separates two valleys.
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Asset of community value
In England, an asset of community value (ACV) is land or property of importance to a local community which is subject to additional protection from development under the Localism Act 2011.
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Bannerdale Crags
Bannerdale Crags is a fell in the English Lake District.
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Baryte
Baryte or barite (BaSO4) is a mineral consisting of barium sulfate.
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Ben Fogle
Benjamin Myer Fogle, (born 3 November 1973 in Westminster, London) is an English broadcaster and writer, best known for his presenting roles with British television channels Channel 5, BBC and ITV.
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Bowfell
Bowfell (named Bow Fell on Ordnance Survey maps) is a pyramid-shaped mountain lying at the heart of the English Lake District, in the Southern Fells area.
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Castlerigg stone circle
The stone circle at Castlerigg (alternatively Keswick Carles, Carles, Carsles, Castle-rig or Druids' Circle) is situated near Keswick in Cumbria, North West England.
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Cheviot Hills
The Cheviot Hills (/'tʃiːvɪət/) are a range of rolling hills straddling the Anglo-Scottish border between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.
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Chris Bonington
Sir Christian John Storey Bonington, CVO, CBE, DL (born 6 August 1934, Hampstead, London) is a British mountaineer.
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Circular sector
A circular sector or circle sector (symbol: ⌔), is the portion of a disk enclosed by two radii and an arc, where the smaller area is known as the minor sector and the larger being the major sector.
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Cirque
Two cirques with semi-permanent snowpatches near Abisko National Park, Sweden A cirque (French, from the Latin word circus) is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion.
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Companies House
Companies House is the United Kingdom's registrar of companies and is an executive agency and trading fund of Her Majesty's Government.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.
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Crinkle Crags
Crinkle Crags is a fell in the English Lake District in the county of Cumbria.
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Cross Fell
Cross Fell is the highest mountain in the Pennine Hills of Northern England and the highest point in England outside the Lake District.
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Cumbria
Cumbria is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England.
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Cumbric
Cumbric was a variety of the Common Brittonic language spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North" in what is now Northern England and southern Lowland Scotland.
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Derwentwater
Derwentwater (or Derwent Water) is one of the principal bodies of water in the Lake District National Park in north west England.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Esk Pike
Esk Pike is a fell in the English Lake District, one of the great cirque of hills forming the head of Eskdale.
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Far Eastern Fells
The Far Eastern Fells are a group of hills in the English Lake District.
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Fell
A fell (from Old Norse fell, fjall, "mountain"Falk and Torp (2006:161).) is a high and barren landscape feature, such as a mountain range or moor-covered hills.
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Forest of Bowland
The Forest of Bowland, also known as the Bowland Fells, is an area of barren gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat moorland, mostly in north-east Lancashire, England with a small part in North Yorkshire (before 1974, some of the area was in the West Riding of Yorkshire).
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Galloway
Galloway (Gallovidia) is a region in southwestern Scotland comprising the historic counties of Wigtownshire and Kirkcudbrightshire.
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Grasmoor
Grasmoor is a mountain in the north-western part of the Lake District, northern England.
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Great Gable
Great Gable is a mountain lying at the very heart of the English Lake District, appearing as a pyramid from Wasdale (hence its name), but as a dome from most other directions.
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Great Whernside
Great Whernside is a fell in the Yorkshire Dales, England, not to be confused with Whernside, some to the west.
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Greywacke
Greywacke or Graywacke (German grauwacke, signifying a grey, earthy rock) is a variety of sandstone generally characterized by its hardness, dark color, and poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments or lithic fragments set in a compact, clay-fine matrix.
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Grisedale Pike
Grisedale Pike is a fell in the Lake District, Cumbria, England situated west of the town of Keswick in the north-western sector of the national park.
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Head for heights
To have a head for heights means that one has no acrophobia, an irrational fear of heights, and is not particularly prone to fear of falling or suffering from vertigo, the spinning sensation that can be triggered, for example, by looking down from a high place.
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Helvellyn range
The Helvellyn range is the name given to a part of the Eastern Fells in the English Lake District, "fell" being the local word for "hill".
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High Stile
High Stile is a mountain in the western part of the Lake District in North West England.
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Hugh Lowther, 8th Earl of Lonsdale
Hugh Clayton Lowther, 8th Earl of Lonsdale, Viscount Lowther, Baron Lowther of Whitehaven is the eldest son of James Lowther, 7th Earl of Lonsdale, and the only son by his first wife Tuppina Cecily Bennet.
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Isle of Man
The Isle of Man (Ellan Vannin), also known simply as Mann (Mannin), is a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Keswick, Cumbria
Keswick is an English market town and civil parish, historically in Cumberland, and since 1974 in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria.
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Kirk Fell
Kirk Fell is a fell in the Western part of the English Lake District.
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Lake District
The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England.
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Lead
Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.
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Limonite
Limonite is an iron ore consisting of a mixture of hydrated iron(III) oxide-hydroxides in varying composition.
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List of Wainwrights
The Wainwrights are the 214 fells (hills and mountains) described in A. Wainwright's seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells (1955–66).
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Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles
The mountains and hills of Great Britain, and to a lesser extent Ireland, are the subject of a considerable number of lists that categorise them by height, topographic prominence, or other criteria.
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Lord of the manor
In British or Irish history, the lordship of a manor is a lordship emanating from the feudal system of manorialism.
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Marilyn (geography)
A Marilyn is a mountain or hill in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland or Isle of Man with a prominence of at least 150 metres (492 ft), regardless of absolute height or other merit.
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Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, (born 6 October 1939), is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian.
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Mickle Fell
Mickle Fell is a mountain in the Pennines, the range of hills and moors running down the middle of Northern England.
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Middle Irish
Middle Irish (sometimes called Middle Gaelic, An Mheán-Ghaeilge) is the Goidelic language which was spoken in Ireland, most of Scotland and the Isle of Man from circa 900-1200 AD; it is therefore a contemporary of late Old English and early Middle English.
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Middle Welsh
Middle Welsh (Cymraeg Canol) is the label attached to the Welsh language of the 12th to 15th centuries, of which much more remains than for any earlier period.
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Mourne Mountains
The Mourne Mountains (na Beanna Boirche), also called the Mournes or Mountains of Mourne, are a granite mountain range in County Down in the south-east of Northern Ireland.
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Mudstone
Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.
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Mungrisdale Common
Mungrisdale Common, pronounced mun-grize-dl, with emphasis on grize, is a fell in the English Lake District.
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National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty
The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, is a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the largest membership organisation in the United Kingdom.
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Northern Fells
The Northern Fells are a mountain range in the English Lake District.
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Old Man of Coniston
The Old Man of Coniston is a fell in the Furness Fells in the English Lake District.
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Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey (OS) is a national mapping agency in the United Kingdom which covers the island of Great Britain.
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Ordovician
The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era.
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Pennines
The Pennines, also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a range of mountains and hills in England separating North West England from Yorkshire and North East England.
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Penrith, Cumbria
Penrith is a market town and civil parish in the county of Cumbria, England.
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Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells
A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells is a series of seven books by A. Wainwright, detailing the fells (the local word for hills and mountains) of the Lake District in northwest England.
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Pillar (Lake District)
Pillar is a mountain in the western part of the English Lake District.
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Richard Coates
Richard Coates (born 16 April 1949, in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, and educated at Wintringham School) is an English linguist.
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River Caldew
The River Caldew is a river running through Cumbria in England.
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Saddle
The saddle is a supportive structure for a rider or other load, fastened to an animal's back by a girth.
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Scafell Pike
Scafell Pike or is the highest mountain in England, at an elevation of above sea level.
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Scrambling
Scrambling (also known as alpine scrambling) is "a walk up steep terrain involving the use of one's hands".
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Siltstone
Siltstone is a sedimentary rock which has a grain size in the silt range, finer than sandstone and coarser than claystones.
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Skiddaw
Skiddaw is a mountain in the Lake District National Park in England.
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Souther Fell
Souther Fell is a fell in the English Lake District.
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Southern Uplands
The Southern Uplands are the southernmost and least populous of mainland Scotland's three major geographic areas (the others being the Central Lowlands and the Highlands).
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Tarn (lake)
A tarn (or corrie loch) is a mountain lake or pool, formed in a cirque excavated by a glacier.
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Thirlmere
Thirlmere is a reservoir in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria and the English Lake District.
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Threlkeld
Threlkeld is a village and civil parish in the north of the Lake District in Cumbria, England, to the east of Keswick.
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Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.
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Wild Boar Fell
Wild Boar Fell is a mountain (or more accurately a fell) in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, in the civil parish of Mallerstang on the eastern edge of Cumbria, England.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Zinc
Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blencathra
