Talk:Little Mell Fell

CORRECTED the name Watermillock Common to Watermillock Fell in the Topography section. The summit immediately south of The Hause is unnamed on OS maps. However, although it stands just above the village of Watermillock, it is certainly not Watermillock Common. OS maps use that name for the area of high ground to the west of Gowbarrow Fell. Bill Birkett uses Watermillock Fell for the summit adjacent to The Hause. See Birkett, The Lakeland Fells Almanac, ISBN 1-897784-59-7. Silence-is-infinite (talk) 21:58, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

DELETED the quotation from Wainwright in the Topography section. His negative opinion of the fell is certainly not written from a neutral point of view, nor was it counter-balanced by other views from other writers. Silence-is-infinite (talk) 09:06, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

DELETED the sentence "Public access through Thackthwaite Gill has however been a source of recent dispute with residents." 1. There is no mention of such a dispute in the reference given. 2. In fact there is no public right of access from Thackthwaite. The northern parts of Little Mell Fell are not Open Access land, and there are no Public rights of way from the north. 3. Wainwright showed a possible route up Thackthwaite Gill, as well as two other possible routes on the fell, but even he noted "there will be a doubt lurking in the mind of the climber as to whether he is committing an act of trespass." Fortunately, since his time in the 1950s, the legal situation has been clarified by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 Silence-is-infinite (talk) 12:16, 16 December 2013 (UTC)