Maiden Moor

Maiden Moor is a fell in the English Lake District, it stands six kilometres (3+3⁄4 miles) south of the town of Keswick and is part of the high ground that separates the Newlands Valley and Borrowdale; it has a modest height of 576 m (1,890 ft) and so fails to be mentioned on many UK mountain lists but it does have a separate chapter in Alfred Wainwright’s Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells.

The Maiden Moor ridge is an example of the Buttermere Formation, an olistostrome of disrupted, sheared and folded mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.

[1] The Combe is the site of the disused Yewthwaite lead mine and there are extensive spoil heaps and old adits and shafts.

This mine area was made famous by Beatrix Potter as the location of the story "The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle", the story she dedicated to Lucy Carr, daughter of the vicar of Newlands Church, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle is supposed to have lived in one of the holes in the fell above the mine.

Both routes climb to the col (Hause Gate) linking the fell to Catbells and then ascend by the northern ridge.

Looking north from Maiden Moor to Catbells and Derwentwater.