England · Lake District National Park

Dovenest Top · Dovenest Crag] [Stonethwaite Fell

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
633.3 m · 2,078 ft
Grid reference
NY 25668 11397
Coordinates
54.49245, -3.14909
County / area
Cumberland
OS Landranger
89 90
OS Explorer
OL4S
Summit feature
rock
Key col
NY 2553 1117 (593.7 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 54.492, -3.149. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (633 m)…

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

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

this is E summit; W summit with small cairn at NY 25579 11374 is 0.6m lower.

The recorded summit point is rock. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Record revised
06-Feb-22
Drop measured from
NY 2553 1117 · 593.7 m

Classification history: Birkett and Nuttalls refer to both summits in their narratives. Nuttalls suggest W top is higher..

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
Cumbria Way 119 km 1.1 km

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

Which hill this one belongs to

Dovenest Top 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, 594 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
Rosthwaite Fell 612 m 0.4 km
Combe Door Top 676 m 0.6 km
Combe Head 735.3 m 0.8 km
Rosthwaite Fell - Bessyboot 551 m 1.1 km
Glaramara 782.7 m 1.4 km
Looking Steads (Glaramara) 774.5 m 1.6 km