Irton Pike

Irton Pike is a hill in the west of the English Lake District, near Santon Bridge, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Alfred Wainwright's book The [Outlying Fells of Lakeland]. The hill reaches a height of. Wainwright's walk as described in Lakeland is an anticlockwise circuit from Irton [Road railway station|Irton Road station] on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, near Eskdale Green. He describes "this tiny top" as "a near-perfect solace for reminiscences of past happy days on the higher fells", adding "Climb Irton Pike while ye may!"