Mickle Rigg

Tucked away in the quiet Uldale Fells, this grassy outlier offers a gentle ascent from the hamlet of Longlands. While modest in height, its position provides an unimpeded perspective of the Solway Firth and the Scottish hills, standing in calm contrast to the rugged Skiddaw massif to the south.

• •The name derives from the Old Norse 'mikill', meaning great, and 'hryggr', meaning a ridge; despite the 'great' title, it is one of the lower elevations in the Northern Fells.
• •It is classified as a Synge, appearing in Tim Synge’s 'The Lakeland Fells', a guide that highlights many of the smaller, often overlooked tops that Alfred Wainwright did not include in his primary seven volumes.
• •From the summit, the view north skips over the village of Uldale and across the Solway Plain to the distinctive flat-topped silhouette of Criffel in Dumfries and Galloway.
• •It serves as an excellent vantage point for those who want to see the Lake District mountains without actually being inconvenienced by having to climb any particularly large ones.