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series has sold in excess of 2 million copies, being in print continuously since the first volume was published in 1952. Wainwright divided the fells into seven geographical areas, each surrounded by valleys and low passes. While any such division must be arbitrary- and later writers have deviated to
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to the sea in a further volume, "The
Southern Fells". The author, Mark Richards, notes his differences with Wainwright in the introduction. Birkett simply includes everything without comment. Even Wainwright ultimately relented and included the southern extremities in an eighth guidebook, "The
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Wasdale Head to Scafell Pike, and from Great Langdale up Bowfell are heavily used, as is the 'Tourist Route' up Coniston Old Man. These tops will be busy on almost any day of the year. Away from these famous tops however it is possible to find quieter walking, particularly to the south.
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a greater or lesser extent from this blueprint- Wainwright's sevenfold division remains the best known partitioning of the fells into 'sub ranges', each with its own characteristics. The
Southern Fells are one of these divisions, covered by volume 4 of Wainwright's work.
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the scenery quickly deteriorates. This summit has therefore been taken as the boundary of fellwalking country for the purposes of this book and the territory southwest omitted from the map". He makes similar statements regarding the fells to the south of
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Wainwright's boundary decisions, the outer perimeter of the Southern Fells is the most often debated. Two ridges continue south west on either side of the Duddon Valley, the longer ending only at the Irish Sea in the terminal height of
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Southern Fells occupy a broad sector of the circular Lake District massif, trending a little to the west of centre and about 10 miles (16 km) across in either direction. In addition to the perimeter dales,
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Coniston ridge. The later Fellranger guides mirror part of Wainwright's Southern Fells in the curiously named "Mid-Western Fells" volume, and then all of the fells south from
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676:References
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580:Hard Knott
575:Grey Friar
570:Green Crag
515:Black Fell
406:Seathwaite
368:Black Fell
364:Holme Fell
344:Grey Friar
320:Green Crag
312:Hard Knott
213:Topography
199:Stake Pass
162:Green Crag
151:Boundaries
95:Borrowdale
22:54°28′16″N
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650:Wetherlam
645:Swirl How
565:Great End
555:Glaramara
530:Cold Pike
525:Brim Fell
352:Brim Fell
348:Wetherlam
340:Swirl How
324:Cold Pike
305:Whin Rigg
289:Glaramara
265:Great End
242:Cold Pike
195:Glaramara
183:Wastwater
25:3°08′38″W
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550:Esk Pike
545:Dow Crag
413:See also
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360:Dow Crag
281:Lingmell
269:Esk Pike
249:Scafells
222:and the
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520:Bowfell
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220:Eskdale
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