page_title: Muncaster Fell
section_title: Views
hierarchical_section_title: Muncaster Fell / Landscape / Views
caption_attribution_description: Aerial view looking south toward the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing facility, Cumbria. The large hill behind is Muncaster Fell.
context_page_description: Muncaster Fell is a fell at the far western edge of the Lake District National Park, in Cumbria, England. Muncaster Fell is a long, narrow ridge of land, approximately 1.2 km wide and 6 km long, lying between the River Mite to the north, and River Esk to the south. The fell rises from the coast near Ravenglass village to its highest point at Hooker Crag. The ridge then continues to the north-east, dropping gently to its furthest prominence at Silver Knott. The fell then falls away rapidly to the village of Eskdale Green at its north-eastern tip.
context_section_description: Muncaster Fell is the subject of a chapter of Alfred Wainwright's walking guide book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. He recommended a clockwise circuit starting from Muncaster Castle, following the ridge to Muncaster Head so as to enjoy the vista of the high fells ahead, and returning along the lane south of the fell. Wainwright commented that "The supreme joy of Muncaster Fell is the delectable traverse of its ridge ... Here is enchantment."
  Being relatively isolated and situated on the coast, views from the fell top include both the mountains of central Cumbria to the northeast, and the coastal plain to the northwest and south. On a clear day, the Isle of Man can be seen across the Irish Sea to the west. For the latter part of the 20th century the view to the northwest was dominated by the twin chimneys of the Windscale Piles nuclear reactors. However, these landmarks were dismantled in the early years of the new millennium, and with the gradual removal of other chimneys and cooling towers associated with the power station, the Sellafield site is now far less imposing. Modern electricity generation technology is very evident, however, as the white turbines of the Walney Wind Farms are clearly visible in the Irish Sea to the southwest.
caption: A view from the north toward the fell, looking across the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site
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