| Castle Crag | |
|---|---|
 Castle Crag from the south, with Derwent Water in the background | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 290 m (950 ft) |
| Prominence | c. 75 m |
| Parent peak | High Spy |
| Listing | Wainwright |
| Coordinates | 54°31′58″N 3°09′43″W / 54.53278°N 3.16207°W |
| Geography | |
  Castle Crag Location in Lake District, UK | |
| Location | Cumbria, England |
| Parent range | Lake District, North Western Fells |
| OS grid | NY249159 |
| Topo map | OS Landranger 89, 90, Explorer OL4 |
Castle Crag is a hill in the North Western Fells of the English Lake District. It is the smallest hill included in Alfred Wainwright's influential Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, the only Wainwright below 1,000 feet (300 m).
Wainwright accorded Castle Crag the status of a separate fell because it "is so magnificently independent, so ruggedly individual, so aggressively unashamed of its lack of inches, that less than justice would be done by relegating it to a paragraph in the High Spy chapter."[1] Subsequent guidebooks have not always agreed: Castle Crag is one of only two Wainwrights not included in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells.[2]
- ^ Alfred Wainwright: A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Book 6, The North Western Fells: Westmorland Gazette (1964): ISBN 0-7112-2459-5
- ^ Bill Birkett: Complete Lakeland Fells: Collins Willow (1994): ISBN 0-00-713629-3