High Seat

High Seat seen from Wild Boar Fell across the valley

Height: 709m (2,326ft)

Prominence: 112m (367ft)

Region: Yorkshire Dales

Classifications: Nuttall, Hewitt

Summit feature: Pile of stones

Times climbed: 1

Related trip reports:

Mallerstang Edge, Swarth Fell & Wild Boar Fell - 13/04/2019

A small pile of stones sits on the summit

High Seat is in the dale of Mallerstang and is the fourth highest fell in the Yorkshire Dales after Whernside, Ingleborough and Great Shunner Fell.

It is not a Marilyn, having a relative height of 112 m, and therefore may be regarded as a subsidiary top of Great Shunner Fell, to the east.

Oddly enough, it is the highest point on the main England east-to-west watershed in the Dales, the three higher fells being some distance from the watershed. Three great rivers have their origins within a mile of each other in the peat bogs here: the River Eden, the River Swale, and the River Ure.

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