Seatallan

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Seatallan
Seatallan seen from the neighbouring Middle Fell
Elevation	692 m (2,270 ft)
Location	Lake District, England
Prominence	193 m
Topo map	OS Landranger 89
OS grid reference	NY139084
Listing	Marilyn, Hewitt, Wainwright, Nuttall

Seatallan is a mountain in the western part of the English Lake District. It is rounded, grassy and fairly unassuming, occupying a large amount of land. However, it is classed as a Marilyn because of the low elevation of the col connecting it to Haycock, its nearest higher neighbour to the north.

Seatallan's most interesting feature is Buckbarrow, the 400-feet rampart of crags on the southern edge overlooking Wast Water. Buckbarrow is given a separate chapter in A. Wainwright's The Western Fells, and is thus classed as a Wainwright, despite having virtually no topographic prominence of its own.

The name Seatallan is believed to have a Cumbric origin, meaning "Aleyn's high pasture".