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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. [1]

69 relations: Alfred Wainwright, Cairn, Cartmel Fell, Common land, Criffel, Cumbria, Dalarna, Dale (landform), Danish language, Faroese language, Fell pony, Fell running, Fell Terrier, Fennoscandia, Furness Fells, Goat Fell, Grazing, Great Britain, Hill, Hill farming, Icelandic language, Inari Sami language, Inselberg, Isle of Arran, Isle of Man, Ivar Aasen, Karelides, Kildin Sami language, Kirkby Stephen, Lake District, Lapland (Finland), List of fells in the Lake District, List of Wainwrights, Livestock, Loanword, Lord of the Fells, Lordship of Bowland, Mallerstang, Middlesex Fells Reservation, Moorland, Mountain, Nationalencyklopedin, Nine Standards Rigg, Norrbotten, Northern England, Northern Sami, Norwegian dialects, Norwegian language, Nunatak, Old Norse, ..., Peel Fell, Pennines, Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Proto-Samic language, Rough Fell, Russian language, Sami languages, Scotland, Seathwaite Fell, Seathwaite, Allerdale, Snaefell, Southern Sami language, Swedish language, The Outlying Fells of Lakeland, Tree line, Tundra, Walking in the United Kingdom, Wetherlam, Wild Boar Fell. Expand index (19 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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Cairn

A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones.

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Cartmel Fell

Cartmel Fell, with a population of 309,increasing to 329 at the 2011 Census is a hamlet and a civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England.

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Common land

Common land is land owned collectively by a number of persons, or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect wood, or to cut turf for fuel.

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Criffel

Criffel is a hill in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland.

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Cumbria

Cumbria is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England.

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Dalarna

Dalarna (English exonym: Dalecarlia), is a historical province or landskap in central Sweden.

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Dale (landform)

A dale is an open valley.

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Danish language

Danish (dansk, dansk sprog) is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in Denmark and in the region of Southern Schleswig in northern Germany, where it has minority language status.

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Faroese language

Faroese (føroyskt mál,; færøsk) is a North Germanic language spoken as a first language by about 66,000 people, 45,000 of whom reside on the Faroe Islands and 21,000 in other areas, mainly Denmark.

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Fell pony

The Fell pony is a versatile, working breed of mountain and moorland pony originating in the north of England in Cumberland and Westmorland (Cumbria) and Northumberland.

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Fell running

Fell running, also sometimes known as hill running, but not to be confused with mountain running, is the sport of running and racing, off road, over upland country where the gradient climbed is a significant component of the difficulty.

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Fell Terrier

Fell Terrier refers to a regional type of long legged working terrier, not a specific breed of dog.

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Fennoscandia

Fennoscandia (Fennoskandia; Fennoskandien; Fennoskandia; Фенноскандия Fennoskandiya), Fenno-Scandinavia, or the Fennoscandian Peninsula, is the geographical peninsula of the Nordic region comprising the Scandinavian Peninsula, Finland, Karelia, and the Kola Peninsula.

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Furness Fells

The Furness Fells are a multitude of hills and mountains in the Furness region of Cumbria, England.

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Goat Fell

Goat Fell (marked as Goatfell by the Ordnance Survey; Scottish Gaelic: Gaoda Bheinn) is the highest point on the Isle of Arran.

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Grazing

Grazing is a method of feeding in which a herbivore feeds on plants such as grasses, or other multicellular organisms such as algae.

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Great Britain

Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.

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Hill

A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain.

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Hill farming

Hill farming is extensive farming in upland areas, primarily rearing sheep, although historically cattle were often reared extensively in upland areas.

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Icelandic language

Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language, and the language of Iceland.

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Inari Sami language

Inari Sami (anarâškielâ) is a Sami language spoken by the Inari Sami of Finland.

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Inselberg

An inselberg or monadnock is an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain.

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Isle of Arran

Arran (Eilean Arainn) or the Isle of Arran is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde and the seventh largest Scottish island, at.

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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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Ivar Aasen

Ivar Andreas Aasen (5 August 1813 – 23 September 1896) was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet.

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Karelides

The Karelides is an ancient mountain chain located between Eastern Finland and Lapland.

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Kildin Sami language

Kildin Saami (also known by its other synonymous names Saami, Kola Saami, Eastern Saami and Lappish), is a Saami language that is spoken on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia that today is and historically was once inhabited by this group.

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Kirkby Stephen

Kirkby Stephen is a civil parish and small market town in Cumbria, in North West England which historically, is part of Westmorland.

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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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Lapland (Finland)

Lapland (Lappi; Sápmi; Lappland) is the largest and northernmost region of Finland.

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List of fells in the Lake District

This is a list of fells, hills, mountains, groups of rabbits and subsidiary summits and tops in the Lake District, England.

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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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Livestock

Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce labor and commodities such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.

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Loanword

A loanword (also loan word or loan-word) is a word adopted from one language (the donor language) and incorporated into another language without translation.

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Lord of the Fells

Lord of the Fells is a customary title of the Lords of Bowland.

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Lordship of Bowland

The Lordship of Bowland is an historic feudal barony associated with the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire, England.

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Mallerstang

Mallerstang is a civil parish in the extreme east of Cumbria, and, geographically, a dale at the head of the upper Eden Valley.

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Middlesex Fells Reservation

Middlesex Fells Reservation, often referred to simply as the Fells, is a public recreation area covering more than in Malden, Medford, Melrose, Stoneham, and Winchester, Massachusetts.

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Moorland

Moorland or moor is a type of habitat found in upland areas in temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands and montane grasslands and shrublands biomes, characterised by low-growing vegetation on acidic soils.

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Mountain

A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak.

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Nationalencyklopedin

Nationalencyklopedin, abbreviated NE, is a comprehensive contemporary Swedish-language encyclopedia, initiated by a favourable loan from the Government of Sweden of 17 million Swedish kronor in 1980, which was repaid by December 1990.

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Nine Standards Rigg

Nine Standards Rigg is the summit of Hartley Fell in the Pennine Hills of England.

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Norrbotten

Norrbotten, known in English as North Bothnia, is a Swedish province (landskap) in northernmost Sweden.

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Northern England

Northern England, also known simply as the North, is the northern part of England, considered as a single cultural area.

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Northern Sami

Northern or North Sami (davvisámegiella; disapproved exonym Lappish or Lapp), sometimes also simply referred to as Sami, is the most widely spoken of all Sami languages.

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Norwegian dialects

The Norwegian dialects are commonly divided into 4 main groups, 'Northern Norwegian' (nordnorsk), 'Central Norwegian' (trøndersk), 'Western Norwegian' (vestlandsk), and 'Eastern Norwegian' (østnorsk).

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Norwegian language

Norwegian (norsk) is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is the official language.

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Nunatak

A nunatak (from Inuit nunataq) is an exposed, often rocky element of a ridge, mountain, or peak not covered with ice or snow within (or at the edge of) an ice field or glacier.

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Old Norse

Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

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Peel Fell

Peel Fell is the highest hill in the Kielder Forest region of England, making it the highest hill for several miles in each direction until the Cheviot Hills to the north-east are reached.

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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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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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Proto-Samic language

The Proto-Samic language is the hypothetical, reconstructed common ancestor of the Samic languages.

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Rough Fell

The Rough Fell is an upland breed of sheep, originating in England.

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Russian language

Russian (rússkiy yazýk) is an East Slavic language, which is official in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely spoken throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

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Sami languages

Sami languages is a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sami people in Northern Europe (in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and extreme northwestern Russia).

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Seathwaite Fell

Seathwaite Fell is an area of the Lake District in Cumbria, England.

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Seathwaite, Allerdale

Seathwaite is a small hamlet in Borrowdale valley in the Lake District of Cumbria, North West England.

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Snaefell

Snaefell (snjœ-fjall/snjó-fall - snow mountain) - (Sniaull) is the highest mountain and the only summit higher than on the Isle of Man, at above sea level.

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Southern Sami language

Southern or South Sami (åarjelsaemien gïele) is the southwestern-most of the Sami languages.

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Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken natively by 9.6 million people, predominantly in Sweden (as the sole official language), and in parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish.

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The Outlying Fells of Lakeland

The Outlying Fells of Lakeland is a book written by Alfred Wainwright, dealing with hills in and around the Lake District of England.

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Tree line

The tree line is the edge of the habitat at which trees are capable of growing.

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Tundra

In physical geography, tundra is a type of biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons.

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Walking in the United Kingdom

Walking is one of the most popular outdoor recreational activities in the United Kingdom, and within England and Wales there is a comprehensive network of rights of way that permits easy access to the countryside.

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Wetherlam

Wetherlam (763 m) is a mountain in the English Lake District.

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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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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fell

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