- Height
- 290.7 m · 954 ft
- Prominence
- 79.1 m
- Grid reference
- NY 05815 09192
- Coordinates
- 54.46934, -3.45479
- County / area
- Cumberland
- Region
- Lake District C&W
- OS Landranger
- 89
- OS Explorer
- OL4S OL6N 303
- Summit feature
- no feature
- Key col
- NY 0554 1009 (211.5 m)
About Cold Fell
This Cold Fell rises in the west of the Lake District above the road linking Ennerdale Bridge and Calder Bridge, a route known as Cold Fell Road and much used by Sellafield workers living in Cockermouth. The fell is grassy and nowhere steep, and the summit is very flat, looking out over the west Cumbrian coast and Sellafield. A group of horses roams freely across it and neighbouring fells.
Wainwright included it in The Outlying Fells of Lakeland but, unusually, declined to set out an ascent: if you cannot find the top with a map, he suggested, take some good advice, old man, and pack it in. He recorded the height as 955 feet.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Cold Fell (Calder Bridge) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.
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
- Sunrise
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- Sunset
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- Daylight
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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for 54.469, -3.455. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (291 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
flat summit area.
The recorded summit point is no feature. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Record revised
- 08-May-25
- Drop measured from
- NY 0554 1009 · 211.5 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.
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).
| Place | Type | Rating | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stanley Arms Hotel | Pub/bar/nightclub | 5 out of 5 | 3.6 km · SW |
| Florence Arts Centre | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 5 out of 5 | 4.1 km · W |
| Sella Park Hotel | Hotel/bed & breakfast/guest house | 5 out of 5 | 4.3 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
Cold Fell is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Pillar (892 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 212 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.