Dale Head
6 classifications here — Marilyn, HuMP, Simm, Birkett, Synge and Fellranger — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.
- Height
- 754 m · 2,474 ft
- Prominence
- 397.7 m
- Grid reference
- NY 22289 15325
- Coordinates
- 54.52724, -3.20228
- County / area
- Cumberland
- Region
- Lake District C&W
- OS Landranger
- 89 90
- OS Explorer
- OL4S
- Summit feature
- no feature 18m W of large cairn
- Key col
- NY 2245 1355 (356.3 m)
About Dale Head
Dale Head occupies the north-western sector of the Lake District, standing directly north of Honister Pass — the road linking Borrowdale with Buttermere — which makes its position easy to fix from either valley.
At 753 m it carries a long list of entries: Wainwright, Hewitt, Nuttall, Marilyn, HuMP, Simm, Birkett, Synge and Fellranger.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Dale Head (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
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Computed astronomically for 54.527, -3.202. 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
ground at cairn (Wainwright/Birkett) at NY 22310 15330 is 30cm lower.
The recorded summit point is no feature 18m W of large 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
- 03-Jun-24
- Drop measured from
- NY 2245 1355 · 356.3 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.
The Dale Head group
6 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Dale Head as the independent hill at its head.
| Summit | Height | Drop |
|---|---|---|
| Hindscarth | 727 m | 71 m |
| High Spy | 653 m | 148 m |
| High Spy North Top | 634 m | 16 m |
| Maiden Moor | 575 m | 10 m |
| Cat Bells | 451 m | 87 m |
| Castle Crag | 290 m | 76 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Hindscarth | 727 m | 1.4 km |
| High Spy | 653.1 m | 1.4 km |
| Honister Crag | 634 m | 1.6 km |
| Fleetwith Pike | 648.9 m | 2 km |
| High Spy North Top | 634 m | 2.3 km |
| Robinson | 737.6 m | 2.6 km |