1. The EASTERN FELLS
2. The FAR EASTERN
    FELLS
3. The CENTRAL FELLS
4. The SOUTHERN FELLS
5. The NORTHERN FELLS
6. The NORTH WESTERN
    FELLS
7. The WESTERN FELLS

Book Two of Wainwright's Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells covers the Far Eastern Fells, an area which includes the High Street range and the fells around Mardale . It was first published in 1957.

Each of the guides has a dedication:

Book Two is dedicated to the memory of THE MEN WHO BUILT THE STONE WALLS, which have endured for centuries and remain to this day as monuments to enterprise, perseverance and hard work.

The Far Eastern Fells • 1

THE FELLS IN THIS AREA: ANGLETARN PIKES • ARTHUR'S PIKE • BEDA FELL •  BONSCALE PIKE • BRANSTREE • BROCK CRAGS • CAUDALE MOOR • FROSWICK • GRAY CRAG • GREY CRAG • HALLIN FELL • HARTER FELL • HARTSOP DODD • HIGH RAISE • HIGH STREET • ILL BELL • KENTMERE PIKE • KIDSTY PIKE • The KNOTT • LOADPOT HILL • MARDALE ILL BELL • The NAB • PLACE FELL • RAMPSGILL HEAD • REST DODD • SALLOWS • SELSIDE PIKE • SHIPMAN KNOTTS • SOUR HOWES • STEEL KNOTTS • TARN CRAG • THORNTHWAITE CRAG • The TONGUE  • WANSFELL • WETHER HILL • YOKE

ANGLETARN PIKES
Height: 1860', (567m)
Grid reference: NY 413148

The double summit of Angletarn Pikes gets its name from the nearby Angle Tarn, probably the finest in the district with its two rocky islands and indented shoreline. The two rocky tops are separated by a marshy col with a small nameless tarn. The north summit is the higher by about six feet, though the south summit probably has the better views.

Angle Tarn at dawn from Angletarn Pikes

ARTHUR'S PIKE
Height: 1745', (532m)
Grid Ref: NY 461207

Arthur's Pike is the most northerly fell on the long High Street ridge, though there is little more than 50 feet of reascent when approached from this direction. The summit itself is uninteresting apart from the views. There are even better views from the nine foot beacon situated above crags a few hundred yards north west of the summit

BEDA FELL
Height: 1670', (509m)
Grid Ref: NY 428170

The long ridge of Beda Fell runs for about two mile north east from Angletarn Pikes, the highest point being Beda Head.

BONSCALE PIKE
Height: 1718', (524m)
Grid Ref: NY 453201

Though seen prominently from across Ullswater, the summit of Bonscale Pike is really a shelf on a ridge rising to Loadpot Hill, with little loss of altitude on its southern side. Nevertheless, it is a fine viewpoint for Ullswater. Below the summit is Bonscale Tower, the lower of two prominent beacon cairns on the fell. The difference in quality between these two beacons seems to suggest different builders, the higher one perhaps being a copy inspired by Bonscale Tower, which is the finer of the two. Wainwright describes it as 'the work of a craftsman'. The higher tower is described, perhaps unfairly, as 'the effort of amateurs'.

BROCK CRAGS
Height: 1842', (561m)
Grid reference: NY 4117137

Brock Crags is situated about a quarter of a mile to the south of Angle Tarn, and is well worth the extra effort by anyone visiting the tarn, mainly for the good views in all directions.

BRANSTREE
Height: 2339713', (m)
Grid Ref: NY 478100

The name Branstree is a corruption of Brant Street. The cairn-less summit is broad and grassy, and on the map appears to be named Artlecrag Pike, though this probably refers to the cairn on Artle Crag, situated a little lower down to the north east. The ridge route to Selside Pike is a simple matter of following a fence NE. This passes a survey pillar similar to the one on Tarn Crag, and an unnamed summit, (both over the fence on the right).

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CAUDALE MOOR (Stoney Cove Pike)
Height: 2503'; (763m)
Grid Ref: NY 418100

The term Caudale Moor strictly refers to a broad marshy plateau with its own prominent cairn at 2477', located to the west of the wall of the highest ground. The actual summit of the fell is just east of the wall and is known as Stoney Cove Pike. To add to the confusion, Caudale Moor is also known as John Bell's Banner. (The Rev. John Bell was a curate and schoolmaster who lived in Ambleside in the sixteenth century and at that time several parish boundaries met on this summit. Banner is an old word for boundary, hence the name).

Though there is little depression between them, many peakbaggers count Caudale Moor proper and Stoney Cove Pike as two separate summits. To the south of Caudale Moor is a cairn with a cross known as the Atkinson memorial, which marks the spot where the ashes of the former licensee of the Kirkstone Pass Inn were scattered some seventy years ago. He'd also farmed this area and owned the land at the time of his death, although now much of the fell belongs to the National Trust.

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1. The EASTERN FELLS
2. The FAR EASTERN
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3. The CENTRAL FELLS
4. The SOUTHERN FELLS
5. The NORTHERN FELLS
6. The NORTH WESTERN
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7. The WESTERN FELLS

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