Kidsty Pike
| Kidsty Pike | ||
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 Kidsty Pike from the west |
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| height | 780 m | |
| location | Cumbria , England | |
| Mountains | Cumbrian Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 30 '20 " N , 2 ° 51' 18" W | |
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Kidsty Pike is one of the 214 Wainwright mountains ( Fell ) in the Lake District National Park in Northern England and is assigned to the Far Eastern Fells .
The author Alfred Wainwright led his Coast to Coast Walk over Kidsty Pike as the highest point of this hike across the British Isles.
Surname
The name is derived from the old Norse names kith = young goat, stigr = path and pik = summit as a summit on the goat path .
topography
Kidsty Pike is on the ridge that runs west of Haweswater Reservoir from the former village of Mardale to Rampsgill Head and separates the Riggindale and Rampage valleys .
A short plateau leads west to the Straits of Riggindale . Here steep, inaccessible slopes lead to Hayeswater, 400 m below, in a valley that opens north-west into Patterdale ; is to the south to connect to the Mountain High Street , to the north is via the spell Patterdale and Boredale to Howtown on Ullswater .
While the north side has a relatively low gradient, the south side drops steeply over craggy rocks and scree slopes into the 500 m lower Riggindale .
The Riggindale Beck rises on the south side of the Kidsty Pike.
Remarks
- ^ Wainwright, Alfred: Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells , Volume 2, The Far Eastern Fells
- ^ Wainwright, Alfred: Coast to Coast Walk
- ^ Robert Gambles, Lake District Place Names , Dalesman Books, Clapham 1985