Arthur's Pike
3 classifications here — 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
- 533 m · 1,749 ft
- Prominence
- 4 m
- Grid reference
- NY 46074 20677
- Coordinates
- 54.57843, -2.83580
- County / area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Region
- Lake District E
- OS Landranger
- 90
- OS Explorer
- OL5S
- Summit feature
- cairn
- Key col
- NY461204 (529 m)
About Arthur's Pike
Arthur's Pike is a subsidiary top on the ridge running north from Loadpot Hill in the Far Eastern Fells, close to Ullswater. An extensive craggy face falls from it above the lower reach of the lake.
It appears on the Wainwright, Birkett, Synge and Fellranger lists.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Arthur's Pike (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 54.578, -2.836. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (533 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
probably Wainwright/Birkett summit; also cairn 190m SSE at NY 46165 20510 and knoll 50m S at NY 46056 20627 may be as high.
The recorded summit point is cairn. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Record revised
- 08-Jun-09
- Drop measured from
- NY461204 · 529 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
Arthur's Pike is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to High Street (829 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 529 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bonscale Pike | 524 m | 0.9 km |
| Loadpot Hill | 672 m | 2.7 km |
| Hallin Fell | 388 m | 2.9 km |
| Steel Knotts | 432 m | 3.3 km |
| Heughscar Hill | 375 m | 3.7 km |
| Wether Hill | 672.5 m | 3.9 km |