Fewling Stones

About Fewling Stones

Located on the quiet eastern fringes of the Lake District near Shap, this rounded moorland summit offers a sense of solitude rarely found on the central fells. As a Wainwright Outlying Fell, it provides a sprawling, peaty vantage point overlooking the M6 corridor and the distant, rugged silhouettes of the High Street range.

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• •The name likely refers to the 'Fowl' or 'Fewling' Stones, a collection of gritstone outcrops near the summit; 'Fewling' may derive from the Old English for birds, suggesting a historic nesting site or a place where birds gathered on the rocks.
• •Alfred Wainwright included this summit in his 'Outlying Fells' guide as part of a circular walk from Sadgill, noting that while the terrain is often boggy, the area offers a 'splendid isolation' far removed from the busier central fells.
• •Positioned on the high moorland between Longsleddale and Shap, the summit provides a unique perspective of the M6 motorway snaking through the Lune Gorge against the backdrop of the Howgill Fells to the east.
• •Many walkers only experience the Far Eastern Fells as a blurred green landscape through a car window; standing here, you have the satisfaction of looking down on the traffic while negotiating the type of deep, black peat that makes a motorway seem like a miracle of engineering.