Ard Crags

About Ard Crags

Ard Crags rises in the Newlands Valley, just off the minor road linking Keswick and Buttermere. Seen from parts of Rigg Beck or the wider Newlands area it takes a sharply defined pyramidal outline, though it sits among taller fells such as Causey Pike and Eel Crag and is often passed over.

There is a discrepancy worth noting in the numbers: the Ordnance Survey records 581 metres, whereas Alfred Wainwright gave roughly 1,860 feet in his Pictorial Guide to the North Western Fells of 1964, published long before satellite mapping.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Ard 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

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 54.567, -3.228. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is no feature: ground by stone. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

23-Oct-23

Drop measured from

NY204199 · 461 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Ard Crags is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Grasmoor (852 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 461 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