Wainwrights Baggers

Book 1 · The Eastern Fells

Little Mell Fell

A 505 m Wainwright in The Eastern Fells, with one desk-checked ascent from roadside parking below Little Mell Fell: 0.6 km and 120 m of climbing.

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Is Little Mell Fell a Wainwright?

Yes. Little Mell Fell is one of the 214 Wainwrights: number 22 of 35 in Book 1, The Eastern Fells, of Alfred Wainwright’s Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells.

Climbing Little Mell Fell from roadside parking below Little Mell Fell

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The route in green, from the car park (P) to the summit (triangle), with the bus stop (B) where it falls on the map and nearby Wainwrights as dots. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

This is a very short route. It climbs Little Mell Fell from free roadside parking at about 385 m. The nearest bus stop with a current service is The Quiet Site at Horrockwood, about 770 m away in a straight line, served by the UB1 and UB2.

The whole line is 0.6 km long and gains about 120 m. It follows a lane for about 30 m, then a footway for about 100 m, then a single path for the rest of the way. None of it is graded for difficulty on the map.

The first 100 m are nearly level. From there the path climbs at an even rate, from about 390 m to 420 m at 200 m in, 475 m at 400 m and 500 m at 500 m, before reaching the summit at 505 m. No cairn or trig pillar is mapped at the top.

About 130 m of the line follows a public footpath, and about 450 m crosses open access land.

Little Mell Fell is 505 m high, 173rd of the 214 Wainwrights by height, and belongs to the Eastern Fells in Book 1.

The GPX file is the same line, from the roadside parking to the summit. Return the same way, or plan a longer walk with a map before you set out.

Download the GPXFree. The route is © OpenStreetMap contributors and the file is released under the Open Database Licence: you may copy, share and adapt it.

Where Little Mell Fell stands

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Little Mell Fell among all 214 Wainwright summits, each in its true position.

Nearest Wainwrights

Straight-line distances between summits.

All the fells in The Eastern FellsAll 214 Wainwrights

Map and route data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Heights along the route from OS Terrain 50. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (NaPTAN, Bus Open Data Service, Lake District National Park Authority rights of way).

Access land © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Heights, grid references and summit positions come from The Database of British and Irish Hills v18.3, used under CC BY 4.0.