Gragareth

About Gragareth

Gragareth straddles the Lancashire and North Yorkshire boundary, its 627 m top lying about 200 m west of the county line and inside the 2016 Yorkshire Dales National Park border. It is the second-highest point in post-1974 Lancashire, one metre below Green Hill some 3.2 km north; the traditional county's high point was the Old Man of Coniston at 803 m.

Leck Fell forms the western slopes and Ireby Fell the southern. The trig point looks out over Morecambe Bay, the Lake District fells, the Howgills, Ingleborough and the Forest of Bowland. The boundary wall along the ridge is reckoned to be among the highest dry stone walls in the country, and the Three Men of Gragareth, a set of tall cairns, stand on the western flank above Leck Fell House. The hill was formerly known as Greygarth Fell.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Gragareth (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 54.209, -2.479. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is small cairn 100m E of trig point. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica RX1250

Record revised

08-Apr-14

Drop measured from

SD 6997 8110 · 595.2 m

Classification history: Lancashire county top transferred from hill 2792 Green Hill in April 2014. Measured height is 628.0m.

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

Reaching Gragareth by train

One National Rail station sits within 8 km of the summit — close enough to make a car-free day of it. Distances are straight lines, not walking routes.

Each station page lists every hill in its reach, long-distance paths from the door and a live-times link — see all stations with hills in reach. Station positions from NaPTAN (OGL v3.0).

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

Which hill this one belongs to

Gragareth is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Great Coum (686 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 595 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.

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