England · Yorkshire Dales National Park

Darnbrook Fell

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Height
624 m · 2,047 ft
Grid reference
SD 88459 72783
Coordinates
54.15074, -2.17820
County / area
North Yorkshire
OS Landranger
98
OS Explorer
OL30S
Summit feature
peat hag near trig point
Key col
SD876724 (583 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

Sunrise
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Daylight
Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 54.151, -2.178. 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

Surveyor's note

trig point is 15m NW at SD 88451 72797.

The recorded summit point is peat hag near trig point. 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
23-Oct-23
Drop measured from
SD876724 · 583 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.

Long-distance paths past this hill

One waymarked long-distance route runs within 2.5 km of the summit — useful if you are linking this hill into a longer walk, or want a made path for the approach.

RouteTotal lengthFrom summit
Pennine Way 411 km 1.7 km

Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

Which hill this one belongs to

Darnbrook Fell is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Fountains Fell (668 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 583 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
Fountains Fell 667.8 m 2.4 km
Fountains Fell South Top 663.4 m 2.5 km
Plover Hill 679.9 m 4.3 km
Pen-y-ghent 694.1 m 4.6 km
Birks Fell 610.4 m 4.9 km
Yockenthwaite Moor 643 m 8.7 km