Sale Fell. Photo: Mick Knapton. CC-BY-SA-3.0

A walker was stretchered from a Lakeland fell after injuring herself in a fall.

Members of the Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team were called at about 12.35pm today to the incident on Sale Fell.

The woman, who had suffered a suspected broken ankle, was found by the team on a forest track on the 359m (1,178ft) fell. Steve Brailey from the team said: “She was taken to the roadside by stretcher near the Pheasant Inn and taken by road ambulance to hospital. An air ambulance sent to the scene was not required.”

Keswick Mountain Rescue Team also aided the rescue, in which 18 members of the Cockermouth team took part.

Sale Fell is one of the lower and most northerly of the wainwrights, the hills listed by Alfred Wainwright in his Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells and lies just within the Lake District national park boundary east of Cockermouth.