Wainwright's Lake District - The Eastern Fells Quiz

Answer: Nethermost Pike

Nethermost Pike at 2920 feet high is taller than Fairfield (2863 ft), Dollywagon Pike (2815 ft) and Hartsop Above How (1870 ft). Both Nethermost and Dollywagon form part of the Helvellyn ridge, being the two mountains to the south of Helvellyn. After Dollywagon Pike is reached a path zigzags down to Grisedale Tarn, (still 1800 feet above sea level) and on the other side of the tarn the north face of Fairfield is seen. Hartsop above How is a peak on the eastern ridge of Fairfield heading towards Patterdale.

Answer: Red Screes

Red Screes stands on the western side of the Kirkstone Pass Road, at a height of over 2,500 feet. The Kilnshaw Chimney is a narrow gully on the side facing the Kirkstone Inn, the other two routes are greater in distance (but at the same time less steep) and both of which can be taken directly from Ambleside.
The other options listed are too far away to be be accessed by the routes listed in the question.

Answer: Arnison Crag

Arnison Crag lies at the end of a ridge to the east of St Sunday Crag. From its summit a view may be had of part of Ullswater. Arnison Crag is listed by Wainwright as being 1424 feet high, whilst of the others Little Mell Fell and Low Pike are both around 1650 feet high. Little Hart Crag is far more lofty being over 2,000 feet at its summit. (Resurveying may change the official heights for these fells but only by a few feet or so.)

Answer: Sheffield Pike

The 214 hills which Wainwright devoted a chapter to in his 7 volume Guide to the Lake District are known as 'Wainwrights'. Many people try (and succeed) to ascend all of them. On 17 August 2008 a six year old completed them to be proclaimed the first person of that age ever to do so!
The summits of eight Wainwrights will be achieved if you complete the Fairfield Horseshoe. The others (apart from the wrong answers to this question and Fairfield itself) are Nab Scar, Great Rigg, Hart Crag and Dove Crag. Sheffield Pike is a shoulder of Stybarrow Dodd overlooking Ullswater.
The term Wainwright can also refer to the author or the guide books he wrote.

Answer: Clough Head

"Fisher's Wife Rake" is named after a local family who used to harvest peat on the hill. The husband would cut it and his wife would take it downhill via the route now bearing the name. To the north of Clough Head, just before the A66 main road is reached is the Threkeld Mining Museum in the remains of a former quarry. Clough Head differs from the rest of the Helvellyn ridge in that it is smoother to the east and rockier to the west, whereas the reverse is true for all the other peaks on the ridge.
Great Dodd is the next hill along the ridge to the south, its height exceeding 2,800 feet.
Stone Arthur lies to the west of the Fairfield Horseshoe, and Great Mell Fell stands in solitude to the north-east of Clough Head. Neither of these form part of the Helvellyn ridge and the summits of both are below 1,800 feet in height.

Answer: Catstycam

Catstycam, alternatively spelled Catstye Cam or Catchedicam stands more than 2,900 feet at its summit. At its base lie the waters of Red Tarn, the remains of Brown Cove Tarn along with the marsh where Keppelcove Tarn used to be before it broke its banks after a storm and flooded the village of Glenridding in 1927.
All three of these tarns were created, or artificially increased in size by means of dams to provide water for the Greenside Lead Mine, which closed in 1961.
From the eastern end of Striding Edge, it is a short walk to reach the summit of Birkhouse Moor.

Answer: Aira Force

The popularity of Aira Force may be due to it being named in the poems of William Wordsworth. It may also be due to it being accessible with minimal walking, (compared to some Lake District waterfalls). The waterfall and surrounding land is owned by the National Trust, who provide a car park nearby.
There are in fact two waterfalls to view in Gowbarrow Park. The lower (in the sense of down stream) is Aira Force where the water falls 65-70 feet. A bit further upstream is High Force which, although cascading water only half that distance, can also be spectacular.
Of the other options Stockghyll Force is in Ambleside in the Lake District, close to the center of town but no car park at the falls themselves. Stainforth Force is a shallow but very attractive cascade of water just north of Settle in Yorkshire, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park". Parking here is almost impossible as the road leading to the falls and over the river is wide enough for one car - no passing. Hardraw Force is also in the Yorkshire Dales, near the village of Hawes.
If it seems strange that these are all named 'force' it should be noted that this is a common term for a waterfall in the north of England with it's origins in the Norse language.

Answer: Watson's Dodd

Castle Rock is a rock crag that may, if looked at from certain angles and not too closely, resemble a ruined castle. The name is taken from the poem "The Bridal of Triermain" by Sir Walter Scott. It is a rocky crag on the western side of the mountain.
Mill Gill Ravine lies between Great Dodd and Watson's Dodd and can be considered part of either.
As you may have noticed, all of the options have the word 'dodd' in their name. The word dodd is probably derived from the word dod, which my trusty copy of Chambers English Dictionary tells me is Scottish in origin, and gives the definition "a rounded hilltop, especially a shoulder of a greater hill".

Answer: Helvellyn

The plaque proclaims "The first aeroplane to land on a mountain in Great Britain did so on this spot on December 22nd 1926. John Leeming and Bert Hinkler in an Avro 585 Gosport landed here and after a short stay flew back to Woodford."
The Helvellyn ridge is very grassy and as such far more suitable for landing on than, for instance, Fairfield, whose summit although wide and level, is strewn with boulders.

Answer: Cartographers

Although Alfred Wainwright dedicated a volume to each of the listed options, the full inscription in volume one reads:
"Book one is dedicated to the men of the Ordnance Survey, whose maps of Lakeland have given me so much pleasure, both on the fells and by my fireside."
Alfred Wainwright wrote about 35 different fells in volume 1, all of which have been mentioned somewhere in this quiz.