A new generation of fellwalkers may arrive seeking to overthrow the traditional perception and feeling no compunction at adopting the highest ground as a summit.

[3] To provide ease of identification, the highest point 2,073 feet (632 m) is immediately east of Great Slack on Ordnance Survey maps.

This has been of little interest to guidebook writers, but of great significance to the authors of modern hill lists based purely upon height and prominence.

This in turn is fed by the outflow of Sprinkling Tarn, a beautiful indented pool lying between Seathwaite Fell and Great End.

A long line of crags also stands above Grains Gill on the eastern side, looming above the popular path from Seathwaite to Esk Hause.

[1] Provisionally, the 24-hour total rainfall at Seathwaite (ending 0045 on Friday 20 November 2009) of 314.4 mm (12.38 in) is a UK record for a single location in any given 24-hour period.

[6] The fell is most frequently climbed from Seathwaite, taking the bridleway from Stockley Bridge which goes to Styhead Tarn for a kilometre, passing the waterfall of Taylorgill Force, before striking south westerly over rocky terrain to reach the cairned northern summit.

[2] Auntie Mabel and Pippin visit Seathwaite Fell in the second episode of the third series of Come Outside, as they learnt about how graphite was discovered and how pencils are made.