Little Hart Crag
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| Little Hart Crag | |
|---|---|
 Little Hart Crag from High Hartsop Dodd with the crags of Black Brow on the right. | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 637 m (2,090 ft) |
| Prominence | 34 m (112 ft) |
| Parent peak | Dove Crag |
| Listing | Hewitt, Nuttall, Wainwright |
| Coordinates | 54°28′54″N 2°56′51″W / 54.48163°N 2.94762°W |
| Geography | |
  Little Hart Crag Location in Lake District, UK | |
| Location | Cumbria, England |
| Parent range | Lake District, Eastern Fells |
| OS grid | NY387100 |
| Topo map | OS Landranger 90 OS Explorer 5, 7 |
Little Hart Crag is a fell in the Lake District area of England. It stands at the head of Scandale, six kilometres (3+3⁄4 miles) north of Ambleside, at a height of 637 metres (2,090 ft). It is an eastern outlier of Dove Crag in the Eastern Fells, although it does have 34 metres (112 ft) of prominence from that fell making it both a Hewitt and a Nuttall fell. It is frequently climbed as part of the Dovedale horseshoe, an 11-kilometre (7-mile) walk over the neighbouring fells of Hartsop above How, Hart Crag, Dove Crag and High Hartsop Dodd, starting and finishing at Brothers Water.
Little Hart Crag is composed of grassy slopes on its eastern slopes above the Scandale Pass, with the tiny Scandale Tarn tucked in a hollow in the hill. To the east it drops steeply into Caiston Glen. On its west side it is connected to Dove Crag by the boggy hollow of Bakestone Moss and to the north east a ridge falls away towards Patterdale going over High Hartsop Dodd before dropping steeply to the valley. The fell is craggy on its northern side as the crags of Black Brow fall into Dovedale.
Geology
The summit is an outcrop of Middle Dodd Dacite, the underlying rock being volcaniclastic sandstone.[1]