Esk Pike
| Esk Pike | ||
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| height | 885 m | |
| location | Cumbria , England | |
| Mountains | Cumbrian Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 27 '26 " N , 3 ° 10' 44" W | |
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Esk Pike is one of the 214 Wainwright mountains (English Fells , see Fjell ) in the Lake District National Park in Northern England and is assigned to the Southern Fells .
Surname
The Esk Pike was originally called Tongue Fell , named after the tongue-shaped foothill located northeast of the mountain between Angle Tarn and Allencrags Gill , which is now recorded as Tongue Head on the maps of the Ordnance Survey . The current official name refers to the River Esk , the headwaters of which the Great Moss is on the southwestern slopes of Esk Pike.
geology
Layers of pyroclastic rock , claystone and siltstone form the upper regions of Esk Pike, interspersed with andesite and porphyry .
topography
The Southern Fells are located in the region with the highest mountains in England, a horseshoe-shaped mountain range that begins in the west with Sca Fell and Scafell Pike and continues as the northern end around the upper Eskdale Valley via Great End , Esk Pike and Bowfell to Crinkle Crags . Esk Pike forms the direct end of Eskdale, but is not the highest mountain in the Southern Fells.
In the north-west of Esk Pike is Esk home , a wide saddle as a crossing point of various paths that connect Eskdale with Borrowdale in north-south direction and Great Langdale with Wasdale in east-west direction . From here the path continues south-west to the highest mountain in England, Scafell Pike.
The River Esk rises to the south ; to the southeast is the Ore Gap pass , the name of which is derived from the reddish earth present there, which is rich in hematite . Below the pass, to the north, in a basin, is the approximately 15 m deep Angle Tarn , where trout can be found. Its water finds its way north as Langstrath Beck and later flows as the River Derwent over Derwent Water and Bassenthwaite Lake through the towns of Keswick and Cockermouth and flows into the Irish Sea at Workington .
Remarks
- ^ Wainwright, Alfred: Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells , Volume 4, The Southern Fells
- ^ Robert Gambles, Lake District Place Names , Dalesman Books, Clapham 1985
- ^ British Geological Survey : 1: 50,000 series maps, England & Wales Sheet 38 : BGS (1998)
- ↑ Lake District Place Names , Robert Gambles, Dalesman Books, Clapham 1985
- ^ Blair, Don: Exploring Lakeland Tarns : Lakeland Manor Press (2003): ISBN 0-9543904-1-5