Allen Crags
4 classifications here — Simm, Birkett, Synge and Fellranger — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.
- Height
- 785 m · 2,575 ft
- Prominence
- 61 m
- Grid reference
- NY 23671 08527
- Coordinates
- 54.46637, -3.17917
- County / area
- Cumberland
- Region
- Lake District C&W
- OS Landranger
- 89 90
- OS Explorer
- OL6N
- Summit feature
- cairn
- Key col
- NY234083 (724 m)
About Allen Crags
Allen Crags sits within the Scafell group, among some of the busiest ground in the Lake District. Most people who reach its 785-metre top are passing along the ridge rather than heading for the fell itself; it is rarely the day's sole objective.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Allen Crags (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.
Access rights here
Conditional Right to roam: Right to roam only on mapped CRoW open access land.
Permission needed Wild camping: Needs the landowner's permission — the Dartmoor commons are the only exception in England.
General position for England — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in England ·check another location.
Daylight at this summit today
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Computed astronomically for 54.466, -3.179. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (785 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
The recorded summit point is cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- obvious summit
- Record revised
- 23-Oct-23
- Drop measured from
- NY234083 · 724 m
Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.
Get food nearby
3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).
| Place | Type | Rating | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Yew Tree | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 5 out of 5 | 5.3 km · N |
| Wasdale Head Inn | Hotel/bed & breakfast/guest house | 4 out of 5 | 5.4 km · W |
| Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 5 out of 5 | 5.5 km · SE |
Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.
Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.
Which hill this one belongs to
Allen Crags is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Scafell Pike (978 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 724 m.
Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.
Nearest listed peaks
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| High House Tarn Top | 682.9 m | 0.8 km |
| Great End | 909.5 m | 1 km |
| Esk Pike | 885 m | 1 km |
| Red Beck Top | 719.5 m | 1.3 km |
| Seathwaite Fell South Top | 631 m | 1.3 km |
| Seathwaite Fell | 631 m | 1.5 km |