Green Crag
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Summit of Green Grag from the plateau to the north
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 489 m (1,604 ft) |
| Prominence | c. 145 m |
| Parent peak | Harter Fell |
| Listing | Wainwright |
| Coordinates | 54°22′26″N 3°13′57″W / 54.37389°N 3.23250°WCoordinates: 54°22′26″N 3°13′57″W / 54.37389°N 3.23250°W |
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 Green Crag
Location in Lake District, UK
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| Location | Cumbria, England |
| Parent range | Lake District, Southern Fells |
| OS grid | SD200982 |
| Topo map | OS Landranger 89,90, Explorer OL6 |
Green Crag is a fell in the English Lake District. It stands between Eskdale and the Duddon valley in the Southern Fells.
The headwaters of Eskdale and the Duddon are separated by a ridge falling south west from the summit of Crinkle Crags. This line of high ground continues over many twists and turns for 15 miles, finally meeting the sea on the slopes of Black Combe. From Crinkle Crags the first fells on this ridge are Hard Knott, Harter Fell and Green Crag. Alfred Wainwright considered the remainder of the range unworthy of inclusion in his influential Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, stating that "south and west from Green Crag the scenery quickly deteriorates. This summit has therefore been taken as the boundary of fellwalking country." Later guidebook writers have disagreed, adding Great Worm Crag, Yoadcastle, Whitfell, Buck Barrow, Black Combe and the low hills around Devoke Water to their hill lists. Wainwright himself later relented and included these lesser hills in a supplementary volume, The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.
Green Crag is the highest of a series of rocky tops which stand out from the Birker Fell moorland. Running from north to south these outcrops present a fine serrated skyline when viewed from Eskdale. Birker Fell itself is roughly square and about two miles across, with Eskdale to the north and the River Duddon to the south.
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