Staveley Fell is an upland area in the English

Lake District The Lake District, also known as ''the Lakes'' or ''Lakeland'', is a mountainous region and National parks of the United Kingdom, national park in Cumbria, North West England. It is famous for its landscape, including its lakes, coast, and mou ...

, near (and named for)

Staveley-in-Cartmel Staveley-in-Cartmel is a village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness Unitary Authority, Cumbria, England. It lies east of Newby Bridge, near the south end of Windermere, northeast of Ulverston. It is sometimes known as Staveley-in-Fu ...

(not to be confused with Staveley-in-Westmorland),

Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north, Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancash ...

, east of the southern end of

Windermere Windermere (historically Winder Mere) is a ribbon lake in Cumbria, England, and part of the Lake District. It is the largest lake in England by length, area, and volume, but considerably smaller than the List of lakes and lochs of the United Ki ...

. 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 ...

'', but he admits that: ''"Strictly it has no name, not even locally, being referred to on Ordnance maps as Astley's and Chapel House Plantations, which are new forests severely encroaching upon it"''. He says it ''"commands a fine aerial view of the foot of Windermere."'' The fell reaches and Wainwright's route is a clockwise loop starting from Staveley-in-Cartmel.

Chris Jesty Chris Jesty (born 1942) is a British author and cartographer who revised Alfred Wainwright's ''Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells'' to produce the second edition (2005–2009) of the books, which were originally published in 1955–1966. He us ...

in his revised edition of Wainwright's book provides an alternative route and comments that "''There must be many people who, encouraged by the ordnance Survey map, or by the first edition of this book, have ... been turned back by an uncrossable fence.''"

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Fells of the Lake District Staveley-in-Cartmel {{Cumbria-geo-stub