Grey Friar

Grey Friar is a fell in the English Lake District, it is one of the Coniston Fells and is situated 13 kilometres west-south-west of Ambleside. It reaches a height of 770 metres and stands to the north west of the other Coniston Fells, a little off the beaten track and tends to be the least visited of the group.

Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Great Carrs and Swirl How.

Great Carrs

Peak

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Great Carrs is a fell in the English Lake District. It stands above Wrynose Pass in the southern part of the District.

Swirl How

Peak

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Swirl How is a fell in the English Lake District. It stands between Coniston and the Duddon Valley in the southern part of the District. It rivals the Old Man of Coniston as the highest point within the traditional County Palatine of Lancashire.

Brim Fell

Peak

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Brim Fell is a fell in the English Lake District. It stands to the west of Coniston village in the southern part of the District.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cockley Beck and Coniston.

Cockley Beck

Hamlet

Photo: Dave Smethurst, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cockley Beck is a small hamlet, situated in the Duddon Valley in Cumbria, England. Historically, the hamlet was part of Lancashire. Located today within the Lake District National Park, it was established in the late 16th century, and is closely associated with the mining of copper ore in Cumbria.

Coniston

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Coniston is a picturesque lakeside village in the Lake District National Park. Coniston sits next to Coniston Water, the Lake District's third largest lake is the home to many attempts at the world water speed record.