Blencathra - Hallsfell Top
7 classifications here — Trail 100, Marilyn, HuMP, Simm, Birkett, Synge and Fellranger — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.
- Height
- 867.8 m · 2,847 ft
- Prominence
- 461 m
- Grid reference
- NY 32345 27708
- Coordinates
- 54.63995, -3.04979
- County / area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Region
- Lake District N
- OS Landranger
- 90
- OS Explorer
- OL5S
- Summit feature
- rock 1m N of trig point
- Key col
- NY296287 (407 m)
About Blencathra - Hallsfell Top
Blencathra, also called Saddleback, is one of the most northerly of the Cumbrian Mountains. It carries six separate fell tops, and Hallsfell Top is the highest of them at 868 metres.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Blencathra (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
- Sunrise
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- Sunset
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- Daylight
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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for 54.640, -3.050. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (868 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
ground 2m N of trig point about as high.
The recorded summit point is rock 1m N of 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/Leica RX1250
- Record revised
- 19-May-19
- Drop measured from
- NY296287 · 407 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).
| Place | Type | Rating | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The White Horse Inn | Pub/bar/nightclub | 5 out of 5 | 1.9 km · SE |
| Keswick Golf Club | Pub/bar/nightclub | 5 out of 5 | 2.2 km · S |
| The Salutation Inn | Pub/bar/nightclub | 4 out of 5 | 2.3 km · S |
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 Blencathra - Hallsfell Top group
6 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Blencathra - Hallsfell Top as the independent hill at its head.
| Summit | Height | Drop |
|---|---|---|
| Gategill Fell Top | 852 m | 18 m |
| Atkinson Pike | 845 m | 16 m |
| Bowscale Fell | 702 m | 87 m |
| Bannerdale Crags | 684 m | 37 m |
| Mungrisdale Common | 632 m | 2 m |
| Souther Fell | 522 m | 88 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Atkinson Pike | 845 m | 0.6 km |
| Gategill Fell Top | 852.2 m | 0.7 km |
| Bannerdale Crags | 684.1 m | 1.8 km |
| Mungrisdale Common | 631.8 m | 1.9 km |
| Bowscale Fell | 702 m | 3 km |
| Souther Fell | 522 m | 3.4 km |