Seat Robert

Seat Robert is a hill in the east of the English Lake District, south west of Shap, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The [Outlying Fells of Lakeland]. It reaches, and has a cairn and an Ordnance Survey "ring" at ground level rather than the usual trig point column. Wainwright's route is a clockwise circuit from Swindale reaching Seat Robert by way of Langhowe Pike at and Great Ladstones at, and continuing over High Wether Howe at and Fewling Stones and. The first section of his route follows the Old [Corpse Road, Mardale|Old Corpse Road], a corpse road, along which corpses were carried from Mardale to be buried at Shap.