Beacon Fell is a

fell A fell (from Old Norse ''fell'', ''fjall'', "mountain"Falk and Torp (2006:161).) is a high and barren landscape feature, such as a mountain or moor-covered hill. The term is most often employed in Fennoscandia, Iceland, the Isle of Man, pa ...

in the southern Lake District of

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe ...

with an altitude of . It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book ''

The Outlying Fells of Lakeland ''The Outlying Fells of Lakeland'' is a 1974 book written by Alfred Wainwright dealing with hills in and around the Lake District of England. It differs from Wainwright's ''Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Pictorial Guides'' in that each ...

''. Geographically, the fell is in the Blawith Fells to the west of the bottom end of

Coniston Water Coniston Water in the English county of Cumbria is the third-largest lake in the Lake District by volume (after Windermere and Ullswater), and the fifth-largest by area. It is five miles long by half a mile wide (8 km by 800 m), ha ...

. The fell is above Beacon Tarn and can be accessed from quiet paths off the main road from Water Yeat to

Torver Torver is a village and civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England, south west of the village of Coniston and west of Coniston Water. Farming has always played an important part in Torver's history, though slate mining in ...

. Wainwright describes an ascent from Brown Howe, passing over the summit and down to Beacon Tarn (also visited on his

Woodland Fell Woodland Fell is an upland area in the south of the English Lake District, south of Torver, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book ''The Outlying Fells of Lakeland''. Wainwright's route is a clockwise circuit from the ham ...

walk) before returning on the western slopes on the line of the

Cumbria Way The Cumbria Way is a linear long-distance footpath in Cumbria, England. The majority of the route is inside the boundaries of the Lake District National Park. Linking the two historic Cumbrian towns of Ulverston and Carlisle, it passes throu ...

. Although it is relatively low, it has panoramic views of the

Coniston Fells Coniston may refer to: Australia * Coniston (Northern Territory), a cattle station ** Coniston massacre, 1928 *Coniston, New South Wales **Coniston railway station, New South Wales * Coniston, Tasmania, a town in the Derwent Valley United Kingd ...

and

Morecambe Bay Morecambe Bay is a large estuary in northwest England, just to the south of the Lake District National Park. It is the largest expanse of intertidal mudflats and sand in the United Kingdom, covering a total area of . In 1974, the second large ...

. Beacon Tarn fault, part of the Coniston Fault complex, passes under the East side of Beacon Tarn. The fault line runs in an approx N 10 degrees E direction.

References

External links

A ''Lingmell'' Website pageBeacon Fell log book
{{Authority control Fells of the Lake District