2808 x 3666 px | 23,8 x 31 cm | 9,4 x 12,2 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
2012
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This is an illustration from ‘The Beauty of The English Lakes’ selected by William Hodgson. First Published in 1990. Eagle Crag is a fell in the Lake District in Cumbria, England, it is situated near the village of Stonethwaite where the valleys of Langstrath and Greenup join. Impressive walls of crag look down upon Stonethwaite, making Eagle Crag the most arresting sight from that settlement. It can be climbed direct by the average walker, picking a route between the rock faces. The fell has not been given an official height by the Ordnance Survey and is given various heights by several other sources ranging between 520 and 525 metres. Bill Birkett gives the fell a height of 521 metres (1, 709 ft) in his Complete Lakeland Fells. Alfred Wainwright gave the height at 1, 650 feet (503 metres) approx in his Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells in 1958, in which he writes: “Eagle Crag is so splendidly situated, so nobly proportioned and of so arresting appearance that it is a far worthier object than the parent fell (High Raise) rising behind”. Eagle Crag is part of the craggy termination of the northern ridge of the higher fell of High Raise and it presents a spectacular sight when viewed from the Stonethwaite valley. It is linked to Sergeant's Crag which is just under a kilometre away to the south by a ridge along which runs a dry stone wall which acts as navigation guide for walkers between the two tops.
