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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 Moorland, moor-covered hill. The term is most often employed in Fennoscandia, Iceland, the Isle of M ...

is an approximately stretch of high ground (consisting mainly of

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capped with

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) situated to the south of

Wild Boar Fell Wild Boar Fell is a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, on the eastern edge of Cumbria, England. At , it is either the fourth- or fifth-highest fell in the Yorkshire Dales, depending on whether nearby High Seat () is counted. The n ...

, of which it is a continuation. It is mostly within

Mallerstang Mallerstang is a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the extreme east of Cumbria, and, geographically, a wikt:dale, dale at the head of the upper River Eden, Cumbria, Eden Valley. Originally part of Westmorland, it lies about south of t ...

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, but the boundary between Cumbria and

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(historically

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and the

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) runs along its length, just to the west of the highest points. The summit, () which is marked by a cairn, and is listed as both a Hewitt and a

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, lies 2.1 km to the south of the summit of Wild Boar Fell, the two fells being separated by a

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- where there are several cairns, and a small tarn; ''Swarth Fell Tarn''. (This small tarn can just be seen in the photograph above right). Historically, the tarn was unnamed, and

Alfred Wainwright Alfred Wainwright Order of the British Empire, MBE (17 January 1907 – 20 January 1991), who preferred to be known as A. Wainwright or A.W., was a British fellwalking, fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator. His seven-volume ''Pictorial ...

described it as "a small, nameless sheet of water." In 2017, the Ordnance Survey agreed to label the tarn on maps as ''Swarth Fell Tarn''. The name ''"Swarth"'' fell, like most of the names of geographical features in the area, is of Norse origin: ''svartr'', dark in colour. Approximately 1 km south-east of the summit is the fell's other high point, Swarth Fell Pike ().

Baugh Fell Baugh Fell (, or ) is a large, flat-topped hill in the northern Pennines of England. It lies in the north-western corner of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, immediately to the east of the Howgill Fells and to the north of Whernside, the highe ...

Yorkshire Dales The Yorkshire Dales are a series of valleys, or Dale (landform), dales, in the Pennines, an Highland, upland range in England. They are mostly located in the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, but extend into C ...

, is 5.3 km to the south-west, separated from Swarth Fell by

Grisedale Grisedale (sometimes Grisdale, or Grizedale rchaic is a south east facing Dale in Cumbria, England, east of Sedbergh, and west of Hawes. Grisedale Beck, which drains Baugh Fell, flows down the dale eastwards, and on reaching the valley flo ...

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