England · Lake District National Park

Combe Head

HewittNuttallSimmBirkettSynge

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

Height
735.3 m · 2,412 ft
Grid reference
NY 24955 10940
Coordinates
54.48824, -3.15998
County / area
Cumberland
OS Landranger
89 90
OS Explorer
OL4S OL6N
Summit feature
cairn
Key col
NY 2484 1074 (704.1 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 54.488, -3.160. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

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Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

grassy knoll 20m E at NY 24973 10938 is as high.

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.

Survey method
Abney level
Record revised
16-Jan-21
Drop measured from
NY 2484 1074 · 704.1 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

Combe Head is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Scafell Pike (978 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 704 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
Combe Door Top 676 m 0.4 km
Glaramara 782.7 m 0.6 km
Dovenest Top 633.3 m 0.8 km
Looking Steads (Glaramara) 774.5 m 0.9 km
Rosthwaite Fell 612 m 1.1 km
Red Beck Top 719.5 m 1.4 km