Robinson is named after a person, Richard Robinson, who bought estates around Buttermere centuries ago, and it was once known as Robinson's Fell. The broad top has its highest point on a bare rock, close to a cairn on the westerly of two outcrops. Its southern slope holds the Hackney Holes, now known to be the biggest rock-slope collapse in the Lake District, and on the west sits the marshy hollow of Buttermere Moss.
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Jumbled mudstone, siltstone and sandstone of the Buttermere Formation; broad plateau, craggy north-east ridge, landslipped south.
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Also on this route: Hindscarth, Ard Crags, Knott Rigg
Safety: Routes are a guide only. Carry a map and compass and know how to use them, check the weather before you go, and turn back if in doubt. You use this route at your own risk.
