Dunmail Raise

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Dunmail Raise, high point (238m) on the A591 that bisects the English Lake District National Park north to south between Keswick and Ambleside. Dunmail Raise rises between Grasmere and Thirlmere and is marked by a large cairn of stones reputed to be the burial mound of Dunmail, last king of Cumbria and after whom the pass is named. It has also been suggested that the cairn is a boundary marker, although firm evidence for this appears lacking.