England · Lake District National Park

Arthur's Pike

WainwrightBirkettSyngeFellranger

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.

Arthur's Pike, 533 m, Westmorland and Furness
Arthur's Pike, 533 m, Westmorland and Furness. Photo by Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
533 m · 1,749 ft
Grid reference
NY 46074 20677
Coordinates
54.57843, -2.83580
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
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

Surveyor's note

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.

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).

Rated places to eat within 10 km of Arthur's Pike
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
The Howtown Hotel & TearoomRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 51.4 km · W
The Outward Bound Trust Howtown CentreRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 51.4 km · W
Ullswater Yacht ClubRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 51.8 km · N

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

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

PeakHeightDistance
Bonscale Pike524 m0.9 km
Loadpot Hill672 m2.7 km
Hallin Fell388 m2.9 km
Steel Knotts432 m3.3 km
Heughscar Hill375 m3.7 km
Wether Hill672.5 m3.9 km