High Seat (Yorkshire Dales)
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High Seat | |
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![]() The escarpment of Mallerstang Edge - High Seat is away to the right | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 709 m (2,326 ft) |
Prominence | 112 m (367 ft) |
Listing | Hewitt, Nuttall, HuMP. |
Coordinates | 54°24′22″N 2°18′18″W / 54.406°N 2.305°WCoordinates: 54°24′22″N 2°18′18″W / 54.406°N 2.305°W |
Geography | |
OS grid | NY802012 |
Topo map | OS Landrangers 91, 92 |
High Seat is a fell in the dale of Mallerstang, Cumbria. With a summit at 709 metres (2,326 ft), it is the fourth highest fell in the Yorkshire Dales after Whernside, Ingleborough and Great Shunner Fell. It is in the north-western part of the Dales, overlooking the deep trench of Mallerstang, and is usually climbed from this side.
To the south-east is Hugh Seat (whose summit is marked by Lady Anne's Pillar, commemorating Sir Hugh de Morville). On the opposite (western) side of Mallerstang is the more striking (but 1 metre lower) Wild Boar Fell.
It is not a Marilyn, having a relative height of 112 m, and therefore may be regarded as a subsidiary top of Great Shunner Fell, to the east. It is, however, a HuMP.
Oddly enough, it is the highest point on the main England east-to-west watershed in the Dales, the three higher fells being some distance from the watershed.
Three main rivers have their origins in the peat bogs here: the River Eden, the River Swale, and the River Ure.[1]
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