England

Brownber Hill

Height
519 m · 1,703 ft
Grid reference
NY 70575 27537
Coordinates
54.64210, -2.45745
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
91
OS Explorer
OL19N
Summit feature
no feature
Key col
NY 70666 27646 (483 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 54.642, -2.457. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (519 m)…

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

Finding the summit

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

Survey method
Abney level
Record revised
10-Mar-07
Drop measured from
NY 70666 27646 · 483 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.

Reaching Brownber Hill by train

One National Rail station sits within 8 km of the summit — close enough to make a car-free day of it. Distances are straight lines, not walking routes.

StationFrom summitSummit lies
Appleby7.1 kmN of the station

Each station page lists every hill in its reach, long-distance paths from the door and a live-times link — see all stations with hills in reach. Station positions from NaPTAN (OGL v3.0).

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).

Rated places to eat within 10 km of Brownber Hill
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
The Stag InnPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 52.9 km · SW
Post Box PantryRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen3 out of 52.9 km · SW
Ghyll BarnPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 54.7 km · SW

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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Brownber Hill is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Cross Fell (893 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 483 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
Backstone Edge699 m2 km
Knock Fell794 m3.1 km
Great Dun Fell847.5 m4.7 km
Murton Pike594 m5.3 km
Little Dun Fell842 m5.5 km
Murton Fell673.6 m5.5 km