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4 unusual facts about Wasdale Head


Joss Naylor

Joss Naylor MBE (Born on 10 February 1936 at Wasdale Head) is an English fell runner.

Walter Parry Haskett Smith

On a university reading party at Aber, Wales, in 1880, Haskett Smith became interested in exploring local cliffs, and in 1881 he journeyed to the Lake District and took a room at the inn at Wasdale Head, staying there for two months, meeting Frederick Herman Bowring, an enthusiastic fell-scrambler some forty years older, and, in essence, becoming Bowring's protégé.

Wasdale Head

It is located at the "head" of the valley of Wasdale, and is surrounded by some of England's highest mountains: Scafell Pike, Sca Fell, Great Gable, Kirk Fell and Pillar.

Adam Nicolson and Nick Meers, Panoramas of England, 1997, London: Orion (p. 102)



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