Black Fell

About Black Fell

Black Fell stands north of Tarn Hows, in the country between Coniston and Hawkshead in the southern Lake District. At 323 metres it is one of the lower Wainwrights, and it also appears on the HuMP, Birkett, Synge and Fellranger lists.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Black Fell (Lake District) (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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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 54.406, -3.018. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is rock 1m W trig point. 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

20-Nov-09

Drop measured from

SD331986 · 197 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

Black Fell is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Top o' Selside — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 197 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