Seat Sandal
| Seat Sandal | |
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Seat Sandal (left) and Fairfield (right) seen from Helm Crag two km to the SW.
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 736 m (2,415 ft) |
| Prominence | c. 150 m |
| Parent peak | Fairfield |
| Listing | Hewitt, Marilyn, Nuttall, Wainwright |
| Coordinates | 54°29′40″N 3°00′57″W / 54.49456°N 3.01585°WCoordinates: 54°29′40″N 3°00′57″W / 54.49456°N 3.01585°W |
| Geography | |
 Seat Sandal
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| Location | Cumbria, England |
| Parent range | Lake District, Eastern Fells |
| OS grid | NY343115 |
| Topo map | OS Landranger 90 OS Explorer 5 |
Seat Sandal is a fell in the English Lake District, situated four kilometres north of the village of Grasmere from where it is very well seen. Nevertheless, it tends to be overshadowed by its more illustrious neighbours in the Eastern Fells, Helvellyn and Fairfield.
The fell's western flanks above Dunmail Raise are grassy and smooth while its eastern slopes are steep and craggy as they fall away towards Grisedale Hause which at 537 m (1,761 ft) contains Lakeland's highest substantial tarn, Grisedale Tarn. The fell reaches a height of 736 m (2,415 ft) and just scrapes into the list of Marilyns by being given prominence of "around" 150 metres from the higher fell of Fairfield. However, this must be regarded as a borderline case as there is no Ordnance Survey surveyed height for the top of Grisedale Hause. Alfred Wainwright gives it a height of 1929 feet (588 metres) giving Seat Sandal a topographic prominence of only 148 metres (two metres short of Marilyn qualification). The hills unusual name comes from the Norse language, meaning “Sandulf’s Hill Pasture”, Sandulf being a Nordic personal name.
Seat Sandal is distinctive in that its drainage reaches the sea at more widely spread points than any other Lakeland Fell, with Raise Beck going through Thirlmere and Derwent Water to reach the Irish Sea at Workington, Tongue Beck going through the lakes of Grasmere and Windermere to reach Morecambe Bay and Grisedale Beck draining into Ullswater and then to the sea at the Solway Firth. However, this is true only as a result of the diversion of Raise Beck north to feed Thirlmere Reservoir — before this (and still today when there is enough water in Raise Beck for it to flow both north and south), Dollywaggon Pike shared in this distinction — Birkside Gill feeding Thirlmere, Raise Beck feeding Grasmere, and Grisedale Beck feeding Ullswater. The fell's main topographic attraction is Gavel Crag on its eastern side, which is connected to the main body of the fell by a fine rock arête.
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