Walk c323 Wild Boar Fell and Swarth Fell from Needle House Farm
This 8½ mile, Grade 6 (Moderate), easy-to-follow, hand-crafted walk, complete with GPS Waypoints, starts at Needle House Farm & will take about 5 hrs to complete.
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 8½mls (13.5km) |
| Ascent: | 1,864ft (568m) |
| Time: | 5hrs |
| Grade: |  |
Route outline for walk c323:
Needle House Farm - Flint Howe - Sand Tarn - Sandtarn Riggs - Wild Boar Fell - Yoadcomb Scar - High White Scar - The Band (Wild Boar Fell) - Aisgill Head - Standard Brow - Swarth Fell - Swarth Fell Pike - Holmes Moss Hill - Rawthey Gil Foot - Holme Moss - Whin Stone Gill - Blea Gill - Uldale House - Nettlehouse Gill - Needle House Farm
Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:
 2 English Mountains |
 0 Wainwrights |
 2 English Nuttalls |
 0 English Deweys |
 0 Wainwright Outlying Fells |
 1 Marilyn |
 0 Bridgets |
Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:
The highest point of this walk is Wild Boar Fell at 708m (2323ft). Wild Boar Fell is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (99th highest in England, 165th highest in England & Wales)
Wild Boar Fell is also known as an English Nuttall (123rd highest in England, 207th highest in England & Wales) and an English Marilyn (29th highest in England, 574th highest in the UK).
The summit of Wild Boar Fell is marked by an Ordnance Survey Trig Point.
Completing this walk will also take you to the top of Swarth Fell at 681m (2235ft). Swarth Fell is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (114th highest in England, 194th highest in England & Wales)
Swarth Fell is also known as an English Nuttall (152nd highest in England, 257th highest in England & Wales).
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Some Photos and Pictures from Walk c323 Wild Boar Fell and Swarth Fell from Needle House Farm
In no particular order . . .
Wild Boar Fell, Mallerstang Common and Nine Standards Rigg from Swarth Fell in the snow
Mallerstang Edge, High Seat (Mallerstang), Archy Styrigg (Gregory Chapel), Hugh Seat, Little Fell (Lunds Fell) (Mallerstang) and Mallerstang Common from Swarth Fell in the snow
*The Langdale Valley with The Langdale Pikes (left) and Pike of Blisco (Pike o' Blisco) (right) from Crinkle Crags (South Top)
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