Sail (Lake District)
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 773 m (2,536 ft) |
| Prominence | c. 32 m |
| Parent peak | Crag Hill |
| Listing | Wainwright, Hewitt, Nuttall |
| Coordinates | 54°34′16″N 3°14′31″W / 54.571°N 3.242°WCoordinates: 54°34′16″N 3°14′31″W / 54.571°N 3.242°W |
| Geography | |
 Sail
Location in Lake District, UK
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| Location | Cumbria, England |
| Parent range | Lake District, North Western Fells |
| OS grid | NY198204 |
| Topo map | OS Landranger 89, 90, Explorer OL4 |
Sail is a hill in the English Lake District, lying between Derwentwater and Crummock Water.
The North Western Fells occupy the area between the rivers Derwent and Cocker, a broadly oval swathe of hilly country, elongated on a north-south axis. Two roads cross from east to west, dividing the fells into three convenient groups. The central sector, rising between Whinlatter Pass and Newlands Pass, includes Sail. The highest ground in the North Western Fells is an east-west ridge in this central sector, beginning with Grasmoor above Crummock Water and then gradually descending eastwards over Crag Hill, Sail, Scar Crags and Causey Pike.
Sail is in every sense a satellite of Crag Fell, although having sufficient prominence to be listed as a Hewitt. From the summit of Crag Hill the eastward ridge narrows between opposing walls of crag. This rocky crest is The Scar, the depression being at around 2,425 ft. The roughness decreases as the rounded top of Sail is reached, and the ridge then turns east north east. A further depression at 2,015 ft leads to the summit of Scar Crags. This col is unnamed on maps of the Ordnance Survey, but Alfred Wainwright termed it Sail Pass in his influential Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells
Sail has a further connection to the south of the main ridge, a high level bridge to Ard Crags. Ard Crags and its neighbour, Knott Rigg, form a lower parallel ridge to the south of the main range.
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