Finsthwaite Heights

About Finsthwaite Heights

Finsthwaite Heights is less a single summit than a stretch of upland above the village of Finsthwaite, and Wainwright was blunt about it in The Outlying Fells of Lakeland: the surroundings are delightful, he wrote, but this is not fellwalking.

His route begins at Newby Bridge and climbs through woodland past a tower inscribed in 1799 in commemoration of the Royal Navy, then goes on through the village to Low Dam and High Dam. Both tarns are artificial, built to supply power to Stott Park Bobbin Mill.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Finsthwaite Heights (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 54.287, -2.983. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Record revised

04-Feb-18

Drop measured from

SD361883 · 180 m

Classification history: Summit of fell is 230m at SD362880 (16172 Summer Sides Wood) and walk also visits the tower at SD369869 on hill 16218 Summer House Knott.

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Which hill this one belongs to

Finsthwaite Heights is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Top o' Selside — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 180 m. That hill is outside the lists OpenFell publishes, so it has no page here.

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