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Lovely Seat (Lunasett)
Lovely Seat from Askrigg Common.jpg
Lovely Seat seen from Askrigg
Common, 5 miles (8 km) to the east
Highest point
Elevation 674.7 m (2,214 ft) [1]
Prominence 149.1 m (489 ft)1
Parent peak Great Shunner Fell
Listing Hewitt, Nuttall
Geography
Lovely Seat (Lunasett) is located in Yorkshire Dales
Lovely Seat (Lunasett)
Lovely Seat (Lunasett)
Location in Yorkshire Dales
OS grid SD879950
Topo map OS Landranger 98

Lovely Seat, originally known as Lunasett until being misnamed by map makers some time in the twentieth century, is a fell in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in North Yorkshire, England. It reaches a height of 675 metres (2,215 feet). It is situated at grid reference SD878950 three miles (five km) north of the town of Hawes, and is part of the high ground which separates Wensleydale from Swaledale. It is the highest point of Abbotside Common. The fell is separated from its neighbour to the west, Great Shunner Fell, by the Buttertubs Pass which carries the minor motor road between Hawes in Wensleydale and Thwaite in Swaledale. The name Lunasett derives from the Norse dialect moon pasture; Commoners of Abbotside still use the original name.

The fell is very rarely climbed directly from the valley and is usually ascended from the top of the Buttertubs Pass in conjunction with nearby Great Shunner Fell. The latter is climbed first from Hawes or Thwaite using the Pennine Way, after which it is a short walk to descend to the top of the pass and then climb to the summit of Lovely Seat following a fence which helps navigation in bad conditions.

The summit is adorned by a fair-sized cairn and a stone-built chair, and gives good views of the Yorkshire Three Peaks to the south. 300 metres west of the summit are a series of stone cairns which are clearly visible on the skyline when the fell is viewed from a distance.

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