Hugill Fell

{{Short description|Hill in Cumbria, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:Cairn on Hugill Fell - geograph.org.uk - 1212575.jpg|thumb|right|Cairn on Hugill Fell]] '''Hugill Fell''' is a hill in the English [[Lake District]], near [[Staveley, Cumbria|Staveley]], [[Cumbria]], on the western side of the [[Kentmere]] valley.

The [[Database of British and Irish Hills]] identifies two summits: "Hugill Fell" with a height of {{convert|273|m|order=flip}}, classified as a [[TuMP]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Hugill Fell |url=https://www.hill-bagging.co.uk/mountaindetails.php?qu=S&rf=16139 |publisher=Hill-Bagging |access-date=6 November 2023}}</ref> and "Hugill Fell (Wainwright Summit)" at {{convert|265|m|order=flip}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hugill Fell (Wainwright summit) |url=https://www.hill-bagging.co.uk/mountaindetails.php?qu=S&rf=2631 |publisher=Hill-Bagging |access-date=6 November 2023}}</ref> Wainwright's summit is also known as '''Black Crag'''.<ref name="candlin">{{cite news |last1=Candlin |first1=Alex |title=Staveley's popular Black Crag and Reston Scar walking route |url=https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/19825439.staveleys-popular-black-crag-reston-scar-walking-route/ |access-date=10 November 2023 |work=The Westmorland Gazette |date=6 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

It is the subject of a chapter of [[Alfred Wainwright|Wainwright's]] book ''[[The Outlying Fells of Lakeland]]''. Wainwright's walk is an ascent from Staveley and return on the same route. He states that there is a cairn on the summit.<ref name=wainwright>{{cite book|last=Wainwright|first=A.|authorlink=Alfred Wainwright|title=[[The Outlying Fells of Lakeland]]|year=1974|publisher=Westmorland Gazette|location=Kendal|pages=22–23|chapter=Hugill Fell}}</ref>

Wainwright, writing in 1974, says that there is no access from Hugill Fell to the nearby summits of [[Reston Scar]] and [[High Knott]] because of "high and collapsable drystone walls", adding "Finding a legitimate way amongst the network of walls is like trying to solve a bent-nail puzzle, except that in this case there is positively no solution",<ref name=wainwright /> but [[Chris Jesty]] in the 2011 second edition of Wainwright's book, says: "Can a traverse be made to the nearby summit of Reston Scar? These days the answer is YES: gates have been provided in the high drystone walls and a clear path links the two summits." He recommends a circular walk ascending to Hugill Fell and descending from Reston Scar.<ref name="jesty">{{cite book |last1=Wainwright |first1=Alfred |editor1-last= |editor1-first= |title=The Outlying Fells of Lakeland |date=2011 |publisher=Frances Lincoln Ltd |isbn=9780711231757 |pages=23 |edition=2nd, edited by Chris Jesty |chapter=Hugill Fell}}</ref>

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[[Category:Fells of the Lake District]]