Broad Crag is a fell in the English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 Lake District

Lake District

The Lake District, also commonly known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous not only for its lakes and its mountains but also for its associations with the early 19th century poetry and writings of William Wordsworth...

. By some counts, it is the fifth highest peak in England at a height of 934 metres (3064 feet).

Topography

It forms part of the Scafell chain, and lies about 0.5 kilometre (0.310686368324903 mi) northeast of Scafell Pike

Scafell Pike

Scafell Pike is the highest mountain in England at . It is located in Lake District National Park sometimes confused with the neighbouring Sca Fell, to which it is connected by the col of Mickledore...

. Ill Crag

Ill Crag

Ill Crag is a fell in the English Lake District. By some counts it is the fourth highest peak in England, although many people, including Alfred Wainwright, consider it to be a subsidiary summit of Scafell Pike...

 lies south east, with Great End

Great End

Great End is the most northerly mountain in the Scafell chain, in the English Lake District. From the south it is simply a lump continuing this chain....

 at the end of the chain being about 1.5 kilometre (0.93205910497471 mi) away.

Ascents

Broad Crag may be climbed en route to Scafell Pike, via a path from Esk Hause

Esk Hause

Esk Hause is a mountain pass in the English Lake District, where paths from Eskdale, Borrowdale, Langdale and Wasdale all meet. Esk Hause is a first step to reaching higher summits, such as Scafell Pike, Great End, Esk Pike and Allen Crags, which are all nearby.The source of the River Esk is close...

 or from the route from Crinkle Crags

Crinkle Crags

Crinkle Crags is a fell in the English Lake District in the county of Cumbria. It forms part of two major rings of mountains, surrounding the valleys of Great Langdale and Upper Eskdale. The name reflects the fell's physical appearance as its summit ridge is a series of five rises and depressions ...

 and Bowfell

Bowfell

Bowfell is a pyramid-shaped mountain lying at the heart of the English Lake District, in the Southern Fells area. It is the sixth highest mountain in the lakes and one of the most popular of the Lake District fells...

.

Claims as a Fell

Broad Crag is one of very few fells in the lake District not to be given a separate chapter in Alfred Wainwright

Alfred Wainwright

Alfred Wainwright MBE was a British fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator. His seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, published between 1955 and 1966 and consisting entirely of reproductions of his manuscript, has become the standard reference work to 214 of the fells of the...

's celebrated guide books. It therefore does not qualify as a Wainwright, though it is a Hewitt and a Nuttall

Nuttall

Nuttall may refer to:People:*Amy Nuttall , British actress*Anthony Nuttall , English literary critic*Carrie Nuttall, photographer*Charles Nuttall , Australian artist*David Nuttall Nuttall may refer to:People:*Amy Nuttall (b. 1982), British actress*Anthony Nuttall (1937 - 2007), English literary...

1946 Royal Navy X7394 crash

On the 30 August 1946, a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 de Havilland Dominie

De Havilland Dragon Rapide

The de Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide was a British short-haul passenger airliner of the 1930s.-Design and development:Designed by the de Havilland company in late 1933 as a faster and more comfortable successor to the DH.84 Dragon, it was in effect a twin-engined, scaled-down version of the...

 X7394 operated by 782 Naval Air Squadron, Royal Navy took off from Glasgow Prestwick Airport to Rochester Airport with a stopover at RNAS Stretton (HMS Blackcap)

RNAS Stretton (HMS Blackcap)

Royal Naval Air Station Stretton , was an airfield in the village of Appleton Thorn, close to the village of Stretton, south of Warrington, in Cheshire....

 south of Warrington

Warrington

Warrington is a town, borough and unitary authority area of Cheshire, England. It stands on the banks of the River Mersey, which is tidal to the west of the weir at Howley. It lies 16 miles east of Liverpool, 19 miles west of Manchester and 8 miles south of St Helens...

. The flight was in bad weather when the aircraft crashed into the western side of Broad Crag. All five passengers and crew were killed in the crash.http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/pages/lakedistrict/lakesx7394.htm

See Also

Also this fell has fair evidence of being classed as a Fell because it is listed on official fell listings,
http://www.leaney.org/lake_district_fells_listings.php

http://www.thelakedistrictmountains.org/Links%20etc/fellslist2000ft.+.htm Both websites lists Broad Crag as a fell