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High Seat (Yorkshire Dales)

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Listing
  
Hewitt, Nuttall

Topo map
  
OS Landrangers 91, 92

Prominence
  
112 m

OS grid
  
NY802012

Elevation
  
709 m

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Mountain range
  
Yorkshire Dales Northern Fells

Similar
  
Swarth Fell, Wild Boar Fell, Nine Standards Rigg, Great Shunner Fell, Rogan's Seat

High Seat is a fell in the dale of Mallerstang, Cumbria. With a summit at 709 metres, it is the fourth highest fell in the Yorkshire Dales after Whernside, Ingleborough and Great Shunner Fell. It is in the north-western part of the Dales, overlooking the deep trench of Mallerstang, and is usually climbed from this side.

Map of High Seat, Richmond, UK

To the south-east is Hugh Seat (whose summit is marked by Lady Anne's Pillar, commemorating Sir Hugh de Morville). On the opposite (western) side of Mallerstang is the more striking (but 1 metre lower) Wild Boar 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.

References

High Seat (Yorkshire Dales) Wikipedia