England · Yorkshire Dales National Park

Fell Head

One classification here — Simm — belongs to a list OpenFell holds only part of, so it has no list page. See how far the coverage goes.

Height
640 m · 2,100 ft
Grid reference
SD 64964 98190
Coordinates
54.37801, -2.54091
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
97
OS Explorer
OL19S
Summit feature
cairn
Key col
SD 6570 9832 (553.8 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
Sunset
Daylight
Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 54.378, -2.541. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (640 m)…

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

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Abney level/Leica RX1250
Record revised
08-Apr-14
Drop measured from
SD 6570 9832 · 553.8 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
Dales High Way 144 km 2.1 km

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

Which hill this one belongs to

Fell Head is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to The Calf (677 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 554 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
Bush Howe 622.3 m 0.9 km
The Calf 676.7 m 2.1 km
Calders 675.4 m 3 km
Yarlside 639.2 m 3.6 km
Randygill Top 624 m 4.2 km
Knoutberry Haw 675.7 m 10.3 km