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What is the significance of the word "Hospice" - do you know? Also what on earth is the square building or construction (casting a very substantial shadow on the aerial view) with the series of geometric blobs around it in a square configuration shown here at the summit?

https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=e0b65ae1-713f-40fc-8845-fb5d64daa994&cp=54.206627~-2.922248&lvl=19&style=h&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027

If it is a trig point it is a weird one.

It's a stone shelter build by a vicar in 1846 for travellers across the fell.
Worth going just for that. The limestone on top is excellent as well.

https://www.visitcumbria.com/sl/hampsfell-hospice/

It looked quite something as we approached through the mist.

Odd that it's marked as a pillar on the OS 1:25000. No trig there just a bolt.