Dovenest Top · Dovenest Crag] [Stonethwaite Fell
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
- Prominence
- 39.6 m
- Grid reference
- NY 25668 11397
- Coordinates
- 54.49245, -3.14909
- County / area
- Cumberland
- Region
- Lake District C&W
- 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
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Computed astronomically for 54.492, -3.149. 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
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.
| Route | Total length | From 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |