Great Ewe Fell is less than 2 miles north of Newbiggin-on-Lune. The coast to Coast path passes at its foot, tracing the very edge of the Fell above the walled field enclosure of farms between the Fell and Newbiggin. The path just touches the Ewefell Mire and passes the local reservoir.

The summit cairn on Great Ewe Fell is composed of roughly cut slabs and shards of limestone, which I am supposing have been dug from a shallow oblong depression a few metres away.

From the summit of Great Ewe Fell it is possible to line up the summits of Little Ewe Fell and Nettle Hill. Between Crosby Garrett's subsidiary fell summits there are many ponds, shake holes and other uncommon hill formations.

The cairn on the 382m summit of Nettle Hill has a mystical and lonely silhouette when viewed from the south west while climbing Great Ewe Fell from the Potts Valley.

Presumably the double row of shake holes in the coum below Great Ewe Fell indicate the line of a subterranean cave whose roof is collapsing.

There are rows and rows of long ridges of turfed-over earth throughout Ewe Fell Coum.

Ewe Fell Mire is a tarn that is naturalising into the earth around it. Water continues to feed into it from some springs near to Intake, but that source is obviously failing. It was shown as a marsh in the OS of 1863.

The moorland reservoir at the foot of Great Ewe Fell is positioned alongside the Coast to Coast path and outside of the wall enclosure that encircles the farming communities of Brownber, Brackenber and Bents.

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