{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Bleaberry Fell | image = Bleaberry_Fell_from_Hause_Gate.jpg | image_caption = Bleaberry Fell seen from [[Hause Gate]] on the opposite side of Derwent Water | elevation_m = 590. | elevation_ref = | prominence_m = 40. | prominence_ref = | parent_peak = [[High Seat (Lake District)|High Seat]] | listing = [[List of Wainwrights|Wainwright]] | location = [[Cumbria]], [[England]] | range = [[Lake District]], [[Central Fells]] | coordinates = {{coord|54.56565|N|3.10733|W|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | grid_ref_UK = NY285195 | topo = [[Ordnance Survey|OS]] ''Explorer'' OL4 | map = United Kingdom Lake District | map_caption = Location in Lake District, UK }}
'''Bleaberry Fell''' is a [[fell]] in the [[Lake District]] in [[Cumbria]], [[England]], with a height of {{convert|590|m|ft|0}}. It stands on the main watershed between [[Borrowdale]] and [[Thirlmere]] and can be climbed from either flank. [[Walla Crag]] is a subsidiary top of Bleaberry Fell.
==Topography== Situated in the [[Central Fells|central area]] of the national park, {{convert|4|km|mi|frac=4|spell=in|abbr=off}} south of [[Keswick, Cumbria|Keswick]], Bleaberry Fell is the northernmost top on the ridge that separates the valleys containing the lakes of [[Derwent Water]] ([[Borrowdale]]) and [[Thirlmere]]. This ridge, which also contains the fells of [[High Seat (Lake District)|High Seat]] and [[High Tove]], is notoriously boggy underfoot, but Bleaberry Fell is mostly dry and the heather-covered summit gives an excellent all-round vista. To the east the fell has the rock faces of Iron Crag and Goat Crags as it falls away towards the Thirlmere valley.
==Ascents== The fell is usually climbed from the car park in Great Wood in [[Borrowdale]], firstly ascending [[Walla Crag]] via Cat Gill and then continuing south-easterly for {{convert|2|km|mi|frac=4|spell=in|abbr=off}} to Bleaberry Fell which is clearly in view. The fell can also be climbed from Keswick, an {{convert|11|km|mi|adj=on|abbr=off|0}} round trip, again going by Walla Crag. Walla Crag is in fact part of Bleaberry Fell, being the outlying north western crags, but is given the status of a separate fell by Lake District writers due to its excellent views and popularity.
Another possible starting point is the hamlet of Dale Bottom on the main Keswick to Ambleside road. It is possible to continue from Bleaberry Fell southerly along the ridge to take in the other Wainwright fells of High Seat and High Tove following a line of old fenceposts. This ridge is very boggy.<ref name="wainwright">{{cite book |author=Wainwright, A |author-link=Alfred Wainwright |title= [[Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells|A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells]], Book 3 The Central Fells |publisher= Westmorland Gazette |year= 1958}}</ref><ref name="richards">Mark Richards: ''The Central Fells'': Collins (2003): {{ISBN|0-00-711365-X}}</ref>
==Geology== The summit of the fell is representative of the Birker Fell Formation. This is composed of [[plagioclase]]-[[phyric]] [[andesite]] lavas and subordinate sills. To the south en route to High Seat are [[garnet]]-bearing [[porphyric]] [[andesite]]. Much of the northern section is overlain by peat and till.<ref name="BGS">British Geological Survey: 1:50,000 series maps, ''England & Wales Sheet 29'': BGS (1999)</ref>
==Summit== The top is heather-clad and carries a number of [[cairn|cairns]]. Bleaberry Fell's central position is rewarded by a fine all-round view, all of the major fell groups being visible. Derwentwater can be brought into sight by moving to the north-west cairn.<ref name="wainwright"/><ref name="richards"/>
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{{Central Fells}}
[[Category:Fells of the Lake District]]