Blake Fell

About Blake Fell

Blake Fell is the high point of the Loweswater Fells in the western Lake District, a group of low grassy hills with steep flanks above the lake of Loweswater. Because that group stands as a separate geographical unit, Blake Fell qualifies as a Marilyn.

It lies in the parish of Lamplugh and can be reached from the village of Loweswater, or from Cogra Moss reservoir on the western side.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Blake Fell (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 54.565, -3.377. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is no feature 3m E of shelter. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

03-Jun-24

Drop measured from

NY 1209 1717 · 409.5 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).

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.

The Blake Fell group

4 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Blake Fell as the independent hill at its head.

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