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 in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous for its lakes, forests, and mountains (or ''fells''), and its associations with William Wordswor ...

, near (and named for)

Staveley-in-Cartmel Staveley-in-Cartmel is a small village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England. It lies east of Newby Bridge, near the south end of Windermere, northeast of Ulverston. It is sometimes known as ...

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

Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumb ...

, east of the southern end of

Windermere Windermere (sometimes tautology (language), tautologically called Windermere Lake to distinguish it from the nearby town of Windermere, Cumbria (town), Windermere) is the largest natural lake in England. More than 11 miles (18 km) in leng ...

. 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 Guides'' in that each of its 56 chapters describes a walk, ...

'', 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