| Skiddaw | |
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 Skiddaw from Borrowdale |
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| Elevation | 931 m (3,054 ft) |
| Location | Cumbria,  England |
| Range | Lake District, Northern Fells |
| Prominence | 709 m |
| Parent peak | Helvellyn |
| Topo map | OS Landrangers 89, 90, Explorer OL4 |
| OS grid reference | NY260290 |
| Listing | Marilyn, Hewitt, Wainwright, Nuttall |
| Listed summits of Skiddaw | ||||
| Name | Grid ref | Height | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sale How | NY276286 | 666 m (2,185 ft) | Nuttall | |
Skiddaw is a mountain in the Lake District National Park in the United Kingdom. Borrowdale is a valley in the English Lake District in Cumbria, England. In topography a summit is a point on a surface which is higher in Elevation than all points immediately adjacent to The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit Boundaries and divisions Cumbria is neighboured by Northumberland, County Durham, North Yorkshire, Lancashire, and the Lieutenancy England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A mountain range is a chain of Mountains bordered by highlands or separated from other mountains by passes or valleys The Lake District, also known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a rural area in North West England. The Northern Fells are a group of hills in the English Lake District. |} Helvellyn is a mountain in the English Lake District, the apex of the Eastern Fells. A topographic map is a type of Map characterized by large-scale detail and quantitative representation of relief, usually using Contour lines in modern Ordnance Survey (OS is an Executive agency of the United Kingdom government The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude There are many notable lists of mountains around the world Typically a list of mountains becomes notable by first being listed or defined by an author or group (e A Marilyn is a type of Mountain or Hill in Great Britain, Ireland or surrounding islands with a relative height of at least 150 metres The mountains and hills of Great Britain, and to a lesser extent Ireland, are the subject of a considerable number of lists which categorise Wainwrights are the 214 Fells (hills and mountains described in A The mountains and hills of Great Britain, and to a lesser extent Ireland, are the subject of a considerable number of lists which categorise The mountains and hills of Great Britain, and to a lesser extent Ireland, are the subject of a considerable number of lists which categorise A mountain is a Landform that extends above the surrounding Terrain in a limited area with a peak The Lake District, also known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a rural area in North West England. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located With a summit at 931 m (3,054 feet) above sea level it is the fourth highest mountain in England (the third highest if Scafell Pike and Sca Fell are regarded as one mountain), and the lowest above 3000 feet. A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit |} At 978 metres (3209 feet Scafell Pike is the highest mountain in England. |} Sca Fell (also spelled Scafell, and traditionally ˈskɔːfəl ( Scawfle) though the alternative pronunciation /skɑːˈfɛl/ is common nowadays is a It lies just north of the town of Keswick, Cumbria, and dominates the skyline in this part of the northern lakes. Keswick (pronounced "kez-ick" /ˈkɛzɪk/ is a Market town within the district of Allerdale, Cumbria, England. Boundaries and divisions Cumbria is neighboured by Northumberland, County Durham, North Yorkshire, Lancashire, and the Lieutenancy It is the simplest of the Lake District mountains of this height to ascend (as there is a well-trodden tourist track from a car park to the north-east of Keswick, near the summit of Latrigg) and, as such, many walking guides recommend it to the occasional walker wishing to climb a mountain. Latrigg is one of the lowest Fells in the Lake District, but is a popular climb due to its convenient location overlooking the town of Keswick and the This is the first summit of the fell running challenge known as the Bob Graham Round when undertaken in a clockwise direction. Fell running, also known as mountain running and hill running, is the sport of Running and racing off road over upland country where the gradient climbed History of the Round On 13/14th June 1932 the Lakeland fell runner Bob Graham set a Peak bagging record of 42 Lakeland peaks in just under 24 hours
The mountain lends its name to the surrounding areas of "Skiddaw Forest", and "Back o' Skidda'" and to the isolated "Skiddaw House", situated to the east, formerly a shooting lodge and subsequently a youth hostel. Hostels provide budget-oriented accommodation where guests can rent a bed, sometimes a Bunk bed in a Dormitory and share a bathroom It also provides the name for the slate derived from that region: Skiddaw Slate. Skiddaw slate is an early Ordovician metamorphosed Sedimentary rock, as first identified on the slopes of Skiddaw in the English Lake District Tuned percussion musical instruments or lithophones exist which are made from the slate, such as the Musical Stones of Skiddaw held at Keswick Museum and Art Gallery. A lithophone is a Musical instrument consisting of a plurality of rocks or pieces of rock in which musical notes are sounded by striking one or more of the rocks in combination The Musical Stones of Skiddaw is a Lithophone made of a type of Hornfels rock found in Cumbria, England. Introduction The Keswick Museum and Art Gallery in Cumbria was founded in 1873 and had a number of temporary homes as it grew including the Moot Hall in
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Topography
The Northern Fells comprise a roughly circular upland area with a diameter approaching 10 miles. The Northern Fells are a group of hills in the English Lake District. A mile is a unit of Length, usually used to measure Distance, in a number of different systems including Imperial units United States At the centre is the marshy depression of Skiddaw Forest— a treeless plateau at an altitude of 1,300 ft— and flowing outward from here are the rivers which divide the area into three sectors. A circular sector or circle sector, is the portion of a Circle enclosed by two radii and an arc. The south western sector, between the Glenderaterra Beck and Dash Beck, contains Skiddaw and its satellites. Glenderaterra Beck is a watercourse in the English County of Cumbria. [1]
Skiddaw itself takes the form of a north-south ridge about half a mile long, with steep slopes to east and west. The ridge continues northward over Broad End to Bakestall, a fell overlooking the Whitewater Dash waterfall. Bakestall is a Fell in the English Lake District, it is situated seven kilometres north of Keswick in the quieter even secluded northern Further ridges fan out east and west from the southern end of Skiddaw. To the south east are Skiddaw Little Man, Lonscale Fell and Latrigg, an easily accessible viewpoint for Keswick and Derwentwater. Skiddaw Little Man also called Little Man is a Fell in the English Lake District, it is situated four kilometres north of the town of Keswick Lonscale Fell is a hill in the English Lake District. Its pointed second top is instantly recognisable standing at the eastern end of the Skiddaw Latrigg is one of the lowest Fells in the Lake District, but is a popular climb due to its convenient location overlooking the town of Keswick and the Not to be confused with Derwent Reservoir in Derbyshire Derwent Water (or Derwentwater) is one of the principal bodies of water in the Beyond these fells are the Glenderaterra Beck and the Blencathra group. Glenderaterra Beck is a watercourse in the English County of Cumbria. |} Blencathra is one of the most northerly mountains in the English Lake District. The south western ridge curves round through 180 degrees to run north above the shore of Bassenthwaite Lake. Bassenthwaite Lake is one of the largest Lakes in the Lake District of England. This gives Skiddaw an 'outer wall', comprising Carl Side, Long Side and Ullock Pike, collectively referred to as 'Longside Edge'. Carl Side is a Fell in the English Lake District, forming a part of the Skiddaw "family" Long Side is a Fell in the English Lake District, it is situated six kilometres north west of Keswick in the northern sector of the national park and Ullock Pike is a Fell situated in northern part of the English Lake District. The final member of the Skiddaw Group is Dodd, a satellite of Carl Side. Dodd is a small Fell in the Lake District, Cumbria, England, four kilometres north-west of Keswick.
Between Skiddaw and Longside Edge are the quiet valleys of Southerndale and Barkbethdale, separated by the spur of Buzzard Knott. These drain the western flanks of the fell to Bassenthwaite Lake. The eastern side of Skiddaw drains into Skiddaw Forest, much of the water reaching Candleseaves Bog. This marsh is the source of both the Dash Beck flowing north west to Bassenthwaite and the River Caldew, beginning its long journey north eastward to the Solway Firth via Carlisle. The River Caldew is a river running through Cumbria in England. The Solway Firth is a Firth that forms part of the border between England and Scotland, between Cumbria (including the Solway Plain) and Carlisle (pronounced CARLYLE(emphasis on the first syllable is a City in northern England the largest settlement in Cumbria. Two smooth spurs on this eastern flank of Skiddaw, Sale How and Hare Crag, are listed in separate tops in some guidebooks[2]. Sale How is also a Nuttall
Below Sale How is Skiddaw House, a stone building which has variously served as a shooting lodge, shepherd's bothy and Youth Hostel. The mountains and hills of Great Britain, and to a lesser extent Ireland, are the subject of a considerable number of lists which categorise Hostels provide budget-oriented accommodation where guests can rent a bed, sometimes a Bunk bed in a Dormitory and share a bathroom Its windbreak comprises the only trees in Skiddaw Forest, and it is reached via a long access track up the Dash Valley. The Dash Valley is a small valley in the English Lake District.
Skiddaw's slopes are generally rounded and convex, looking from a distance as though a thick velvet blanket has been draped over a supporting frame. On the ridges the general terrain is of loose stones, but elsewhere all is grass and heather. Wainwright noted that "Its lines are smooth, its curves graceful; but because the slopes are steep everywhere, the quick build-up of the massif from valley levels to central summit is appreciated at a glance- and it should be an appreciative glance, for such massive strength and such beauty of outline rarely go together. Alfred ("A" Wainwright MBE (17 January 1907 &ndash 20 January 1991 was a British hillwalker, guidebook Author and Illustrator "[1]
Geology
The bedrock of Skiddaw, commonly known as Skiddaw Slate, is the Kirkstile Formation. Skiddaw slate is an early Ordovician metamorphosed Sedimentary rock, as first identified on the slopes of Skiddaw in the English Lake District This Ordovician rock is composed of laminated mudstone and siltstone with greywacke sandstone. The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six of the Paleozoic era, and covers the time between 488 Mudstone (also called mudrock) is a fine grained Sedimentary rock whose original constituents were Clays or Muds Grain size is up Siltstone is a Sedimentary rock which has a composition intermediate in grain size between the coarser Sandstones and the finer Mudstones and Greywacke ( German grauwacke, signifying a grey earthy rock is a variety of Sandstone generally characterized by its hardness dark color and poorly-sorted At the summit this is overlain by scree and to the south are areas where the underlying Loweswater Formation surfaces. Scree, also called talus and detritic cone, is a term given to broken rock that appears at the bottom of Crags mountain Cliffs or
Summit and View
The summit ridge bears a number of tops, which from north to south are known [1][2] as North Top, High Man (the summit), Middle Top and South Top. All now bear cairns and a number of stone windshelters have been erected. A cairn ( carn in Irish is an artificial pile of stones often in a conical form Skiddaw has a subsidiary summit, Little Man, which lies about 1. Skiddaw Little Man also called Little Man is a Fell in the English Lake District, it is situated four kilometres north of the town of Keswick 5 km south-south-east of the main peak. Despite its limited independence, Wainwright listed it as a separate fell in his influential Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, a convention which is often followed. A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells
The view is as panoramic as might be expected, given Skiddaw's topographic prominence. From High Man the north east quadrant is filled by the quiet fells of Back o'Skiddaw, with the Border hills, the Cheviots and the North Pennines behind them. The Cheviot is the highest summit in the Cheviot Hills in the far north of England, only 2 km from the Scottish border The Pennines are a low-rising Mountain range in Northern England and southern Scotland. To the south east are Blencathra, the Far Eastern Fells and the Helvellyn range; behind these are vistas of the Yorkshire Dales and Forest of Bowland. The Far Eastern Fells are a group of hills in the English Lake District. 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 The Yorkshire Dales (also known as The Dales) is the name given to an upland area in Northern England. The Forest of Bowland, also known as the Bowland Fells, is an area of barren Gritstone Fells deep valleys and Peat Moorland, The Coniston Fells are visible directly to the south. The Furness Fells are those hills and mountains in the Furness region of Cumbria, England. On the other side of South Top is a fine view of the Scafells, Western and North Western Fells, with a portion of Snowdonia visible between Kirk Fell and Pillar. Scafells is a collective term for the Scafell range of Fells in the western English Lake District, including Scafell Scafell Pike, Broad The Western Fells are a group of hills in the English Lake District. The North Western Fells are a group of hills in the English Lake District. Snowdonia (Eryri is a region of North Wales and a National park of in area |} Kirk Fell is a Fell in the Western part of the English Lake District. |} Pillar is a Mountain in the western part of the English Lake District. The Isle of Man is visible 60 miles away, as are the Mourne Mountains 120 miles away (on exceptionally clear days). The Isle of Man (Ellan Vannin ˈɛlʲən ˈvanɪn or Mann (Mannin) is a self-governing Crown dependency, located in the Irish Sea at the geographical The Mourne Mountains or Mournes (Na Beanna Boirche a granite mountain range located in County Down in the south-east of Northern Ireland, are among the The final quarter is taken up by the coastal plain and the distant Solway Firth, backed by the hills of Galloway such as Merrick, Criffel and Broad Law. Galloway ( Gaelic: Gall-Ghaidhealaibh, əŋ ɡauɫ̪ɣəɫ̪əv or Gallobha, Lowland Scots Gallowa) is an area in southwestern Criffel is a mountain in southern Galloway, Scotland. It is 570 metres high but appears higher because of its great isolation and high relative height — Broad Law is the second highest Hill in the wide expanse of hill country in Southern Scotland, the Southern Uplands, and the highest for 30 miles Goat Fell on Arran can be seen at an angle of 313 degrees, 105 miles away. Goat Fell (marked as Goatfell by the Ordnance Survey; Scottish Gaelic: Gaoda Bheinn) is the highest point on the Isle of Arran Arran ( also known as Aran, Ardhan (in Parthian) Al-Ran (in Arabic) including the highland and lowland Karabakh)
Most distant view; Slieve Meelmore in Mourne, 120 miles distant.
Computer-generated panorama; north, south.
By moving to South Top a superb view of Borrowdale can be brought into sight. Borrowdale is a valley in the English Lake District in Cumbria, England. [1]
Ascents
Many routes of ascent have been devised for Skiddaw. The most popular ("tourist route") starts from Keswick and first ascends behind Latrigg, before the climb continues over the slopes of Little Man to the summit. This walk can be made considerably easier by driving to the top of Gale road and beginning from the public carpark just behind the summit of Latrigg.
Another popular route (and the one recommended by Wainwright[1]) is to follow Longside Edge, first ascending Ullock Pike, Long Side and Carl Side before making the steep climb up from Carlside Col. Also from the north, a somewhat tougher alternative is to walk up Buzzard Knott between Southerndale and Barkbethdale: after crossing to the southern edge of the shoulder above Randel Crag ascend due east to the summit. Rather easier than either of these is the compass-walk due south from Cock Up (505m); reversing this route provides a safe descent, especially in bad weather.
From the south west at Millbeck, Carlside Col can be reached direct. A start from nearby Applethwaite can also be used to provide a variation to the tourist route. From the northwest ascents can be made via Southerndale, or via the northern end of the Skiddaw ridge. Finally on the west the walker can first make for Skiddaw House, a fair step from either Keswick, Threlkeld or Peter House. Threlkeld is a village in the north of the Lake District, England, to theeast of Keswick, situated at grid reference. Once Skiddaw House is reached a direct line is possible, climbing over either Sale How or Hare Crag. [1]
From the north east an unmarked but fairly well-worn path starts at Whitewater Dash waterfall (on Cumbrian Way) where the walker can follow the fence (along Birkett Edge just south of Dead Crags) past the Bakestall outcrop, and follow the fence until just before the unnamed top at 831m. The Cumbria Way is a linear Long distance footpath in Cumbria, England passing through the towns of Coniston and Keswick. From the 831m top, a path is leading directly to Skiddaw Man.
See also
"Skiddaw" is also a former name for Mount Wellington, Tasmania, which also overlooks a River Derwent (River Derwent, Tasmania rather than River Derwent, Cumbria). Mount Wellington is a Mountain on whose Foothills is built much of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The Derwent is a River in Tasmania, Australia. It was named after the River Derwent Cumbria by British Commodore John Hayes For other rivers called Derwent see River Derwent. The Derwent is a River in the Lake District of the County
References
- ^ a b c d e f Wainwright, Alfred: A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells,Book 5 The Northern Fells: ISBN 0-7112-2458-7
- ^ a b Birkett, Bill: Complete Lakeland Fells: Collins Willow (1994): ISBN 0-00-713629-3
External links
- Skiddaw is at coordinates Coordinates:
- Computer-generated virtual panoramas North South Index
 Summit ridge of Skiddaw in winter |
 Skiddaw from Blencathra |
 Skiddaw in the fog from Latrigg |
 Skiddaw and Skiddaw Little Man from Latrigg |
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