# The Calf

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Mountain in Cumbria, England

The Calf The trig point at the summit, looking towards the distant Pennines Highest point Elevation 676 m (2,218 ft) Prominence 383 m (1,257 ft) Parent peak Cross Fell Listing Marilyn, Hewitt, Nuttall Coordinates 54°22′03″N 2°30′51″W / 54.36742°N 2.51403°W / 54.36742; -2.51403 Geography The Calf Yorkshire Dales, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England OS grid SD667970 Topo map OS Landranger 98

**The Calf**, at an elevation of 676 metres (2,218 ft),[1] is the highest point in the [Howgill Fells](/source/Howgill_Fells), an area of high ground in north-west England. It is in the north-west of the [Yorkshire Dales](/source/Yorkshire_Dales) in [Westmorland and Furness](/source/Westmorland_and_Furness) in the county of [Cumbria](/source/Cumbria) (historically it was on the [West Riding of Yorkshire](/source/West_Riding_of_Yorkshire)/[Westmorland](/source/Westmorland) boundary). It can be ascended from the town of [Sedbergh](/source/Sedbergh) to the south, by way of [Cautley Spout](/source/Cautley_Spout) from the east, or up the long valley of Langdale from the north. The Sedbergh ascent is the most popular, and has the distinction of being on good paths all the way.

The summit commands an extensive [panorama](/source/Panorama), although foreground detail is obscured by the extreme flatness of the plateau. A twenty-mile skyline of the [Lakeland](/source/Lake_District) peaks can be seen, as well as the [Yorkshire Three Peaks](/source/Yorkshire_Three_Peaks) and many of the nearer Howgill Fells.

[Alfred Wainwright](/source/Alfred_Wainwright), in his *Walks on the Howgill Fells*, describes a route from Sedbergh to Calders and The Calf as "the classic high-level walk on the Howgill Fells". He includes a drawing of the [trig point](/source/Triangulation_station) on the summit of The Calf, discusses a "reclining" standing stone 400 yards to the north-east which appears on large-scale Ordnance Survey maps, and spends a column of text discussing "the altitude of Calders", which he estimates as 2215 ft. He gives diagrams of the views covering the full 360 degrees, and sketches of the Lakeland skyline and the view of the [Yorkshire Three Peaks](/source/Yorkshire_Three_Peaks) to the south-east. He also describes ascents of the Calf from [Castley](/source/Castley) ("this impressive expedition", "a beautiful walk"), Beck Houses farm on the west of the Howgills (" this high-level traverse of the plateau splendidly reveals the topographical details of the Howgills") and [Bowderdale](/source/Bowderdale) ("the longest direct ascent of The Calf").[2]

**Calders**, at 674 metres (2,211 ft), is about 1 km SSE of the summit of The Calf. It is classified as a [Hewitt](/source/Hill_lists_in_the_British_Isles#Hewitts).

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-hillbagging_1-0)** ["The Calf"](https://www.hill-bagging.co.uk/mountaindetails.php?qu=S&rf=2732). *Hill Bagging*. Retrieved 19 December 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-wainwright_2-0)** Wainwright, A. (1972). *Walks on the Howgill Fells*. Westmorland Gazette. p. 6(1-6), 9(1), 10(1), 17(1).

v t e Hills of the Northern Yorkshire Dales Marilyns Baugh Fell Great Shunner Fell Hoove Kisdon Lovely Seat Nine Standards Rigg Rogan's Seat The Calf Wild Boar Fell Yarlside Hewitts Calders Fell Head High Seat Little Fell Randygill Top Swarth Fell Wether Fell Other hills Lunds Fell Winder

v t e Marilyns of Northern England 1. Northumberland The Cheviot Housedon Hill Long Crag Peel Fell Ros Hill Shillhope Law Sighty Crag Tosson Hill 2. Northern Lakeland Binsey Blencathra Knott Skiddaw 3. Western Lakeland Blake Fell Dale Head Dent Grasmoor Great Gable Grisedale Pike High Stile Kirk Fell Lord's Seat Low Fell Mellbreak Pillar Robinson Seatallan Swinside Watch Hill 4. Central and Southern Lakeland Black Combe Claife Heights Coniston Old Man Hard Knott Harter Fell High Raise High Rigg Holme Fell Illgill Head Kirkby Moor Lingmoor Fell Loughrigg Fell Muncaster Fell Pike of Blisco Scafell Pike Top o' Selside Whitfell 5. Eastern Lakeland Arnside Knott Fairfield Grayrigg Forest Great Mell Fell Gummer's How Hallin Fell Helvellyn High Street Hutton Roof Crags Lambrigg Fell Little Mell Fell Place Fell Red Screes St Sunday Crag Seat Sandal Stony Cove Pike Tarn Crag Wansfell Whitbarrow 6. North Pennines and Durham Burnhope Seat Cold Fell Cross Fell Dufton Pike Mickle Fell 7. Northern Yorkshire Dales Baugh Fell The Calf Great Shunner Fell Hoove Kisdon Nine Standards Rigg Rogan's Seat Wild Boar Fell Yarlside 8. Southern Yorkshire Dales Aye Gill Pike Birks Fell Buckden Pike Calf Top Cracoe Fell Dodd Fell Hill Fountains Fell Great Coum Great Knoutberry Hill Great Whernside Ingleborough Pen-y-ghent Rombald's Moor Sharp Haw Whernside 9. North York Moors to the Humber Bishop Wilton Wold Cringle Moor Gisborough Moor Urra Moor 10. Forest of Bowland Easington Fell Fair Snape Fell Longridge Fell Ward's Stone White Hill

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