England · Lake District National Park

Bakestall

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.

Bakestall, 674 m, Cumberland
Bakestall, 674 m, Cumberland. Photo by Mick Knapton at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
673.5 m · 2,210 ft
Grid reference
NY 26631 30738
Coordinates
54.66638, -3.13907
County / area
Cumberland
OS Landranger
89 90
OS Explorer
OL4N OL4S
Summit feature
ground 15m SW of cairn
Key col
NY 2658 3055 (663 m)

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 54.666, -3.139. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

Wainwright cairn is 100m N at NY 26634 30855.

The recorded summit point is ground 15m SW of cairn. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Record revised
19-Dec-22
Drop measured from
NY 2658 3055 · 663 m

Classification history: This is the Birkett and Synge summit; the Wainwright and Fellranger summit is 100m N at NY266306 is 6m lower.

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

Bakestall is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Skiddaw (930 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 663 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
Skiddaw 930.4 m 1.8 km
Sale How 666 m 2.3 km
Great Calva 691 m 2.5 km
Great Cockup 526 m 2.7 km
Skiddaw Little Man 865 m 2.9 km
Carl Side 746.8 m 2.9 km