Meal Fell

Overview
Height: 1,804 Feet - 550 Metres
Grid Ref: NY 282 337
Area: Northern
Group: N/NOS
Ordnance Survey: OL5
Wainwright Guidebook: Five

Thrusting out from the smooth western declivity of Great Sca Fell is a long ridge that swells into two subsiduary fells before coming down sharply to the little hamlet of Orthwaite. The first of these, that nearer Great Sca Fell, takes the form of a prymid, its summit appearing from xertain viewpoints as a shaply peak.

 

Map and Photo Gallery

 

Meal Fell and Great Cockup from Great Sca Fell.

Great Sca Fell from Meal Fell summit.

 

There are 5 walks to choose from including Meal Fell

Walking the Birketts, Great Cockup to Knott

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4th May 2019
ASCENT: 2,135 Feet - 651 Metres
MILES: 8.8
BIRKETTS: 9, Orthwaite Bank - Little Cockup - Great Cockup - Meal Fell - Little Sca Fell - Great Sca Fell - Knott - Frozen Fell - Burn Todd
ROUTE: Peter House Farm - Horsemoor Hills - Orthwaite - Orthwaite Bank - Little Cockup - Great Cockup - Trusmadoor - Meal Fell - Little Sca Fell - Great Sca Fell - Knott - Frozen Fell - Burn Tod - Trusmadoor - Burntod Gill - Dash Valley - Horsemoor Hills - Orthwaite
 

Walking the Wainwrights in 30 Walks - Walk 8 The Back O'Skiddaw Fells

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3rd April 2016
ASCENT: 3,617 Feet - 1,103 Meters
MILES: 14.3
WAINWRIGHTS: 8, Longlands Fell - Brae Fell - Great Sca Fell - Knott - Great Calva - Meal Fell - Great Cock Up - Binsey
ROUTE: Over Water - Lowthwaite - Longlands - Longlands Fell - Top of Charleton Gill - Brae Fell - Little Sca Fell - Great Sca Fell - Knott - Top of Wiley Gill - Great Calva - Top of Wiley Gill - Frozen Fell - Meal Fell - Great Cockup - Orthwaite Bank - Orthwaite - Overwater Hall - Binsey - Over Water
 

The first snow of winter on the Back O'Skiddaw Fells

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21st November 2015
ASCENT: 2,914 Feet - 889 Meters
MILES: 9.3
WAINWRIGHTS: 6, Longlands Fell - Brae Fell - Great Sca Fell - Meal Fell - Great Cockup - Binsey
ROUTE: Longlands - Longlands Fell - Top of Charleton Gill - Brae Fell - Little Sca Fell - Great Sca Fell - Meal Fell - Trusmadoor - Great Cockup - Orthwaite Bank - Orthwaite - Overwater Hall - Binsey
 

The Uldale Fells from Longlands


23rd August 2014
ASCENT: 2,317 Feet – 707 Meters
MILES: 8.4
WAINWRIGHTS: 5, Great Cockup – Meal Fell – Great Sca Fell – Brae Fell – Longlands Fell
ROUTE: Longlands – Stockdale – Orthwaite – Orthwaite Bank – Great Cockup – Trusmadoor – Meal Fell – Great Sca Fell – Little Sca Fell – Brae Fell – Broad Moss – Top Of Charleton Gill – Longlands Fell – Longlands
 

The Back O’ Skidda

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26th March 2011
ASCENT: 4,153 Feet,  1,266 Meters
MILES: 11.4
WAINWRIGHTS: 7, Bakestall, Great Calva, Knott, Great Sca Fell, Meal Fell, Brae Fell & Great Cockup
ROUTE:  
 

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