Haystacks (Lake District) - Wainwright

Wainwright

Haystacks was the favourite summit of influential guidebook author Alfred Wainwright. He neglected to name the fell as a whole in his "best half-dozen" at the end of the Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells because of inferior height, but stated that for beauty, variety and interesting detail, for sheer fascination and unique individuality, the summit area of Haystacks is supreme. This is in fact the best fell-top of all.. Wainwright's ashes were scattered by his wife Betty near the shores of Innominate Tarn. In Buttermere church there is a memorial to Wainwright, and one can look out of the window to Haystacks.

• Great Gable from Blackbeck Tarn

• Innominate Tarn

• High Crag, Pillar (Lake District), Buttermere and Crummock Water from Haystacks