The Top 20 Natural Monuments around Allerdale
Allerdale’s landscape is a beautiful place to explore — something that you can best experience by visiting one of our 20
beautiful natural monuments around Allerdale. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
beautiful natural monuments around Allerdale. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
Last updated: November 14, 2025
Helvellyn Summit
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Up there with Britain’s best-loved mountains, Helvellyn is home to a horseshoe ridge of legendary quality. First comes Striding Edge, a knife-edge arête with a tantalisingly-good tightrope path edging along …
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Skiddaw Summit
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This northern fell is a beast; a sprawling behemoth of a mountain. What it lacks in intricacy it makes up for with sheer presence. The Back o’ Skiddaw is wild …
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Little Man (Skiddaw) summit
Highlight • Viewpoint
Here is one of the finest views in the entire national park, arguably better than from its parent peak. Glistening Derwent Water is embraced by the soaring ridgelines and peaks …
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Haystacks Summit
Highlight • Natural Monument
Alfred Wainwright’s favourite fell and final resting place, Haystacks is achingly pretty: a place where rocky, craggy coarseness meets the quaint charm of tarns and streams in perfect harmony. Alf …
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Castle Crag Summit
Highlight • Climb
Castle Crag provides a brilliant vantage point of the surrounding area. A long way off being a classed as a 'big peak', the ascent and descent can still be difficult. …
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Maiden Moor
Highlight • Summit
When hiking up the ridge from Catbells, Maiden Moor is the next summit you will reach. While its flat summit is no rival to that of better known neighbours Catbells …
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Carrock Fell Summit
Highlight • Summit
Carrock Fell is a much-loved Wainwright summit in the Northern Fells of the Lake District. Its position in the very north east of the national park gives it unique views …
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High Stile Summit
Highlight • Viewpoint
Shapely and noble, High Stile is the highest point of the eye-catching ridge soaring proudly above Buttermere. Traversing this ridge – the Buttermere Edge – should not be rushed. It’s …
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Red Pike (Buttermere)
Highlight • Climb
So called due to the red coloured soil and stone, do be careful going down Red Pike as the paths have all but eroded and its mainly loose stones. If …
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Outerside Summit
Highlight • Viewpoint
Outerside is a 1,955-foot (568 m) Wainwright fell in the north-west Lake District. Many sources include Outerside as a key feature of the Coledale Round but others see it as …
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High Seat Summit (Lake District)
Highlight • Viewpoint
Many will joke that you have to swim to get here! There is a lot of soft peaty ground that has a reputation for swallowing up innocent hikers, sometimes to …
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