Wild Boar Fell, Mallerstang, viewed from Nateby Common. Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe.

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Wild Boar Fell is a mountain (or more accurately a fell) in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, in the civil parish of Mallerstang on the eastern edge of Cumbria, England. At 2,323 feet (708 m), it is either the 4th-highest fell in the Yorkshire Dales or the 5th, depending on whether nearby High Seat (2,326 ft) is counted or not. The nearest high point is Swarth Fell which is a ridge about a mile (1½ km) long to the south, at grid reference SD754965. To the east, on the opposite side of the narrow dale, are High Seat and Hugh Seat. According to Wainwright the fell gets its name from the wild boar which inhabited the area over 500 years ago but it would be unusual in an area of Viking settlement, for its old Norse name to have disappeared, when the names of many of its features, such as the Nab, Dolphinsty, etc., retain their Norse origin. Wild Boar fell was named in a late-17th century boundary description as both Wilbright and Wilbert fell and it must be doubtful that Wild Boar is the original name. We should instead look to the Old Norse tongue for an original name. A tusk, claimed to be of ‘the last wild boar caught on the fell’, is kept in Kirkby Stephen parish church.

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Location: Wild Boar Fell, Mallerstang, viewed from Nateby Common. Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria, Engl
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Keywords: boar, common, fell, mallerstang, nateby, wild