Woodland Fell is an upland area in the south of 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 ...

, south of

Torver Torver is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England, south west of the village of Coniston, Cumbria, Coniston and west of Coniston Water. Farming has always played an important par ...

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 ...

. 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, ...

''. Wainwright's route is a clockwise circuit from the hamlet of

Woodland A woodland () is, in the broad sense, land covered with trees, or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the ''plurale tantum'' woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (see ...

, and includes the summits of Yew Bank at and Wool Knott at , with Beacon Tarn (also visited on his Beacon Fell walk) between them. He describes the walk as: ''"a connoisseur's piece, every step an uninhibited joy, every corner a delight."''

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Fells of the Lake District {{Cumbria-geo-stub