Black Fell (Black Crag)

Overview
Height: 1,056 Feet - 323 Metres
Grid Ref: NY 340 016
Area: Southern
Ordnance Survey: OL6 OL6
Wainwright Guidebook: Four

Everybody knows Tarn Hows, but few the summit of the fell rising behind, above miniature plantations and slopes richly clothed in bracken to the north-east. This is Black Fell.

 

Map and Photo Gallery

 

Black Fell (Black Fell) summit.

Black Fell (Black Fell) summit Trig Piont.

 

There are 4 walks to choose from including Black Fell (Black Crag)

Black Fell & Holme Fell from Yew Tree Tarn

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22nd October 2023
ASCENT: 1,490 Feet - 454 Metres
MILES: 6.5
WAINWRIGHTS: 2, Black Fell (Black Crag) - Holme Fell
ROUTE: Yew Tree Tarn – Lane Head Coppice – Tarn Hows – Iron Keld Plantation – Black Fell (Black Crag) – Low Arnside – Low Oxen Fell – High Oxen Fell Farm – Hodge Close – Holme Fell – Uskdale Gap – Harry Gaurds Wood – Yew Tree Tarn
 

Walking the Wainwrights in 30 Walks - Walk 17 Four Fells around Elterwater

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12th June 2016
ASCENT: 4,800 Feet - 1,464 Meters
MILES: 15.7
WAINWRIGHTS: 4, Loughrigg Fell - Black Fell (Black Crag) - Holme Fell - Lingmoor Fell
ROUTE: Walthwaite Bottom - High Close - Loughrigg Terrace - Loughrigg Fell - Loughrigg Tarn - Skelwith Bridge - A593 - Park Farm - Low Arnside - Black Crag - Arnside Plantation - Iron Keld Plantation - Tarn Hows - Glen Mary Bridge - Harry Gaurds Wood - Uskdale Gap - Holme Fell - Holme Ground - Hodge Close - Little Langdale - Dale End - Lingmoor Quarry - Lingmoor Fell - Lingmoor Quarry - Baysbrown Woods - Sawreys Woods - Burlington Quarry - Elterwater - Walthwaite Bottom
 

Black Fell & Holme Fell from Yew Tree Tarn

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18th January 2015
ASCENT: 1,490 Feet - Metres
MILES: 6.5
WAINWRIGHTS: 2, Black Fell (Black Crag) - Holme Fell
ROUTE: Yew Tree Tarn – Glen Mary Bridge – Tarn Hows – Iron Keld Plantation – Black Fell (Black Crag) – Low Arnside – Low Oxen Fell – High Oxen Fell Farm – Hodge Close – Holme Fell – Uskdale Gap – Harry Gaurds Wood – Yew Tree Tarn
 

A Tarn Hows Circuit

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25th September 2011
ASCENT: 2,200 Feet, 671 Meters
MILES: 6.7
WAINWRIGHTS: 2, Black Fell (Black Crag) & Holme Fell
ROUTE:  
 

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