Eagle Crag

About Eagle Crag

Eagle Crag sits where the valleys of Langstrath and Greenup meet, near the village of Stonethwaite. Walls of crag fall towards the settlement, and the fell is the most arresting thing in view from there.

Despite the rock, a direct line to the top is possible by threading between the faces.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Eagle Crag (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

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 54.499, -3.120. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

obvious summit

Record revised

03-Aug-24

Drop measured from

NY 2762 1179 · 493.6 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

2 waymarked long-distance routes run 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 lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

Which hill this one belongs to

Eagle Crag is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to High Raise (763 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 494 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