According to Alfred Wainwright the name Graystones properly refers only to the summit, but he then chose to apply it to the whole fell in his influential Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells. Wainwright stated that the hill is correctly known as Kirk Fell, not to be confused with Kirk Fell in Wasdale.
According to Alfred Wainwright, Graystones only refers to the summit, but he later decided to include the entire fell in his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells. He clarified that the correct name for the hill is Kirk Fell, distinct from another Kirk Fell in Wasdale.