England · Lake District National Park

Capplebarrow

2 classifications here — Birkett and Synge — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.

Height
512.7 m · 1,682 ft
Grid reference
NY 50800 03541
Coordinates
54.42492, -2.75983
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
90
OS Explorer
OL7N
Summit feature
cairn
Key col
NY 5071 0390 (493.8 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 54.425, -2.760. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

this is the Wainwright; Birkett is ground by fence 40m E at NY 50839 03541 and is c 0.5m lower; cairn 85m E on far side of fence at NY 50885 03532 is not mentioned by Wainwright or Birkett and is of similar height to the Birkett..

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

Record revised
11-Jul-23
Drop measured from
NY 5071 0390 · 493.8 m

Classification history: Birkett summit is a few metres from the west side of the fence.

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

Capplebarrow is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Tarn Crag (Sleddale) (664 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 494 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
Swinklebank Crag 554 m 1.5 km
Todd Fell 401 m 1.5 km
White Howe (Bannisdale) 530 m 1.7 km
Bannisdale Fell - Long Crag 493 m 1.9 km
The Forest 528 m 2 km
nameless (Bannisdale Horseshoe - Ancrow Brow N) 541 m 2.4 km