Binsey
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Binsey from Longlands Fell to the east
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 447 m (1,467 ft) |
| Prominence | 242 m (794 ft) |
| Parent peak | Knott |
| Listing | Marilyn, Wainwright |
| Coordinates | 54°42′31″N 3°12′16″W / 54.70852°N 3.20434°WCoordinates: 54°42′31″N 3°12′16″W / 54.70852°N 3.20434°W |
| Geography | |
 Binsey
Location in Lake District, UK
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| Location | Cumbria, England |
| Parent range | Lake District, Northern Fells |
| OS grid | NY225355 |
| Topo map | OS Landrangers 89, 90, Explorer OL4 |
Binsey is a hill on the northern edge of the Lake District in Cumbria, England. It is detached from the rest of the Lakeland hills, and thus provides a good spot to look out at the Northern and North Western Fells of the Lake District, as well as the coastal plain and, across the Solway Firth, Scotland. Snaefell on The Isle of Man is also visible on a clear day. It is the northernmost of the Wainwrights.
Binsey stands on the otherwise low-level watershed separating the catchments of the Ellen to the north and the Derwent to the south. A slight ridge connects it to Great Cockup in the main massif of the Northern Fells, two miles to the south east. Binsey itself has a rounded form, but somehow manages to impress the eye more than the similar Great Mell Fell and Little Mell Fell.
The "pudding basin" shape holds all around Binsey except to the north west where a ridge descends over Whitas Park to a depression containing the remains of a Roman fort. Beyond is St John's Hill (950 ft) (called Caermote Hill in Wainwright's Outlying Fells) which is topped by an earthwork called "The Battery". Finally the ridge descends to the village of Bothel in the Ellen Valley.
Binsey sends out a further spur to the east, culminating in the shapely top of Latrigg (1,030 ft)— not to be confused with Latrigg near Keswick. Beneath Latrigg is Over Water, a large tarn which was raised by damming in 1920 to provide drinking water for Wigton. The ouflow of Over Water feeds the Ellen, as does the gloriously named Humble Jumble Gill which drains Binsey's northern flank.
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