Beacon Fell

About Beacon Fell

Beacon Fell belongs to the Blawith Fells, west of the foot of Coniston Water, and reaches 255 metres above Beacon Tarn. Quiet paths off the Water Yeat to Torver road give access.

Wainwright's chapter in The Outlying Fells of Lakeland climbs from Brown Howe, crosses the summit, drops to Beacon Tarn and returns along the western slopes on the line of the Cumbria Way. For its modest height the outlook is wide, taking in the Coniston Fells, Coniston Water and Morecambe Bay.

Structurally, the Beacon Tarn fault runs beneath the eastern side of the tarn on a bearing of roughly N 10 degrees E, part of the wider Coniston Fault complex.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Beacon Fell, Cumbria (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 54.307, -3.111. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

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

25-Jan-24

Drop measured from

SD261871 · 126 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.

Long-distance paths past this hill

One waymarked long-distance route runs within 2.5 km of the summit — useful if you are linking this hill into a longer walk, or want a made path for the approach.

Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

Which hill this one belongs to

Beacon Fell is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Kirkby Moor — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 126 m. That hill is outside the lists OpenFell publishes, so it has no page here.

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