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following the stream around the base of Middle Fell. Once
Ladcrag Beck is reached, a more direct line can be taken up Haycock. From below the lake, the valley of Greendale Beck provides another alternative. Haycock may also be ascended indirectly, having first climbed
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on either side, that to the north being regarded as the nominal summit. The whole area is stony. Another cairn marks a viewpoint to the south.
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to the south-east. Westwards the hills diminish toward the coastal plain of
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534:Haycock looking SE from Iron Crag
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213:Location in Copeland Borough
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725:Great Gable
720:Great Borne
511:Middle Fell
447:plagioclase
427:Middle Fell
378:Great Gable
135: /
110:Coordinates
78:Parent peak
854:Categories
810:Scoat Fell
765:High Stile
715:Gavel Fell
705:Fellbarrow
685:Buckbarrow
675:Blake Fell
670:Base Brown
552:References
515:Scoat Fell
435:Wast Water
431:Ravenglass
401:Scoat Fell
364:Topography
342:Scoat Fell
279:Landranger
120:54°29′04″N
103:Wainwright
65:Prominence
37:Scoat Fell
830:Yewbarrow
815:Seatallan
785:Mellbreak
775:Lank Rigg
770:Kirk Fell
760:High Crag
750:Haystacks
700:Crag Fell
680:Brandreth
507:Seatallan
490:Helvellyn
459:sandstone
455:siltstone
409:Seatallan
393:Kirk Fell
382:Ennerdale
350:Ennerdale
233:, England
148:Geography
123:3°19′22″W
55:Elevation
870:Nuttalls
780:Low Fell
755:Hen Comb
695:Caw Fell
486:Scafells
451:andesite
449:-phyric
405:Caw Fell
346:Caw Fell
327:Nuttall
319:NY140109
303:Grid ref
283:Explorer
271:Topo map
263:NY144107
227:Location
825:Steeple
745:Haycock
521:Gallery
500:Ascents
494:Skiddaw
441:Geology
420:Nuttall
389:Wasdale
374:Wasdale
354:Wasdale
334:Haycock
309:Status
257:OS grid
231:Cumbria
207:Haycock
174:Haycock
99:Nuttall
90:Listing
41:Steeple
24:Haycock
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473:Summit
467:dacite
397:Pillar
306:Height
95:Hewitt
83:Pillar
740:Grike
479:cairn
613:ISBN
580:ISBN
492:and
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461:and
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368:The
358:fell
344:and
300:Name
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