Grasmoor

About Grasmoor

Grasmoor is the highest of the group of hills lying between Lorton, Braithwaite and Buttermere, and it looks out over Crummock Water. Its defining feature is the steep western flank falling towards that lake.

Rock climbers find little to work with on that face, there being scarcely any clean rock, though Alfred Wainwright set out a demanding line up it in his Pictorial Guides. Eastward the fell connects to its neighbours by way of Crag Hill and Coledale Hause. Grasmoor also carries the largest expanse of scree anywhere in the North Western Fells.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Grasmoor (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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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 54.572, -3.278. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

11-Nov-18

Drop measured from

NY 1928 1761 · 333.4 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.

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.

The Grasmoor group

11 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Grasmoor as the independent hill at its head.

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