Calf Top

About Calf Top

Calf Top stands in the western Yorkshire Dales, in Cumbria but with Lancashire and North Yorkshire both close by. Seen from the smaller hills to the west, such as Lambrigg Fell and Hutton Roof Crags, it makes a dominating profile.

The deep trench of Barbondale cuts it off from its neighbours Great Coum and Aye Gill Pike. That separation gives it substantial relative height despite it being lower than most hills in the region, and it qualifies as a Marilyn as well as a Hewitt, Nuttall, HuMP and Simm.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Calf Top (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 54.265, -2.517. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is small cairn. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica NA730/Leica 530

Record revised

09-Jul-22

Drop measured from

SD 6818 8625 · 289.3 m

Classification history: Promoted to Nuttall and Hewitt September 2016. See Database Notes..

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 Calf Top group

One other listed summit sits in the same prominence group, with Calf Top 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