England · Lake District National Park

Carrock Fell

WainwrightHewittNuttallSimmBirkettSyngeFellranger

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Carrock Fell, 662 m, Cumberland/Westmorland and Furness
Carrock Fell, 662 m, Cumberland/Westmorland and Furness. Photo by Mick Knapton at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
662.3 m · 2,173 ft
Grid reference
NY 34169 33639
Coordinates
54.69348, -3.02287
County / area
Cumberland/Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
90
OS Explorer
OL5N
Summit feature
large cairn
Key col
NY 3250 3420 (572.4 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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Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 54.693, -3.023. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is large cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
obvious summit
Record revised
16-Jan-21
Drop measured from
NY 3250 3420 · 572.4 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

Carrock Fell is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Knott (710 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 572 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
High Pike (Caldbeck) 658 m 2.7 km
Hare Stones 627 m 2.8 km
Bowscale Fell 702 m 3.2 km
Great Lingy Hill 616 m 3.2 km
Miller Moss 610.1 m 3.8 km
Knott 710.1 m 4.6 km