Castle Crag
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This article is about a hill in Borrowdale in the English Lake District. For the Castle Crag hill and hill fort above Thirlmere in the English Lake District, see Raven Crag. For the suburb of Sydney, see Castlecrag, New South Wales. For the mountain in Tasmania, see Castle Crag (Tasmania).
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 (300 m).
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Castle Crag | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 290 m (950 ft) |
Prominence | c. 75 m |
Parent peak | High Spy |
Listing | Wainwright |
Coordinates | 54°31′58″N 3°09′43″W |
Geography | |
Location | Cumbria, England |
Parent range | Lake District, North Western Fells |
OS grid | NY249159 |
Topo map | OS Landranger 89, 90, Explorer OL4 |
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Wainwright accorded Castle Crag the status of a separate fell because it "is so magnificently independent, so ruggedly individual, so aggressively unashamed of its lack of inches, that less than justice would be done by relegating it to a paragraph in the High Spy chapter."[1] Subsequent guidebooks have not always agreed: Castle Crag is one of only two Wainwrights not included in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells.[2]