Burnbank Fell

About Burnbank Fell

Burnbank Fell is the most westerly of the Loweswater Fells, a group of low grassy hills lying just south of Loweswater in the west of the Lake District. It is largely grass, with sprawling flanks and a broad ridge linking it to Blake Fell. Approaches run from Lamplugh to the west or from Waterend by the lakeshore.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Burnbank 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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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 54.576, -3.378. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is metal post at fence corner. 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

16-Jul-18

Drop measured from

NY 1111 2065 · 453 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Burnbank Fell is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Blake Fell (573 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 453 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