The Nab

Overview
Height: 1,887 Feet - 576 Metres
Grid Ref: NY 434 152
Area: Far Eastern
Group: E/MAR
Ordnance Survey: OL5
Wainwright Guidebook: Two

The Nab is, in chractor, akin to the three Dodds around Kirkstonefoot. Very steep-side, soaring in symmetrical lines to a slender cone, it appears from the pastures of Martindale as a lofty wedge splitting the valley into two branches, Rampsgill and Bannerdale.

 

Map and Photo Gallery

 

Rest Dodd and The Nab (right) from Rampsgill Head,

The Nab

Rest Dodd and The Nab.

 

There are 3 walks to choose from including The Nab

Walking the Birketts, Martindale's Bannerdale Horseshoe

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20th October 2018
ASCENT: 2,764 Feet - 843 Metres
MILES: 9.5
BIRKETTS: 6, Beda Head (Beda Fell) - Angletarn Pike North Top - Angletarn Pike South Top - Brock Crags - Rest Dodd - The Nab
ROUTE: Martindale New Church - Martindale Old Church - Winter Crag - Beda Head (Beda Fell) - Bedafell Knott - Heckbeck Head - Angletarn Pike South Top - Angletarn Pike North Top - Angle Tarn - Cat Crag - Brock Crags - Satura Crag - Rest Dodd - The Nab - Below Nab End - Martindale - Martindale Old Church - Martindale New Church
 

Walking the Wainwrights in 30 Walks - Walk 20 Fourteen Fells east of Ullswater

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3rd July 2016
ASCENT: 4,790 Feet - 1,460 Meters
MILES: 19.9
WAINWRIGHTS: 14, Bonscale Fell - Arthurs Pike - Loadpot Hill - Wether Hill - High Raise (Martindale) - Kidsty Pike - Rampsgill Head - High Street - The Knott - Rest Dodd - The Nab - Brock Crags - Angletarn Pikes - Beda Fell
ROUTE: Martindale New Church - Mellgaurds - Bonscale Pike - Top of Swarth Beck - Arthurs Pike - Loadpot Hill - Wether Hill - Red Crag - High Raise (Martindale) - Rampsgill Head - Kidsty Pike - Straights of Riggindale - High Street - Straights of Riggindale - The Knott - Rest Dodd - The Nab - Satura Crag - Brock Crags - Angletarn Pikes - Heckbeck Head - Beda Knott - Beda Fell - Winter Crag - Martindale Old Church - Martindale New Church
 

Deluge On The Far Eastern Fells

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16th July 2011
ASCENT: 3,261 Feet, 992 Meters
MILES: 12.5
WAINWRIGHTS: 7, Beda Fell, Brock Crags, The Knott, Rampsgill Head, High Raise, Rest Dodd & The Nab
ROUTE:  
 

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