England · Lake District National Park

Gray Crag

WainwrightBirkettSyngeFellranger

3 classifications here — Birkett, Synge and Fellranger — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.

Gray Crag, 698 m, Westmorland and Furness
Gray Crag, 698 m, Westmorland and Furness. Photo by Mick Knapton at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
698.1 m · 2,290 ft
Grid reference
NY 42757 11707
Coordinates
54.49746, -2.88536
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
90
OS Explorer
OL5S
Summit feature
rock
Key col
NY 4285 1151 (684.4 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

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Computed astronomically for 54.497, -2.885. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

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Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

this is Nuttall summit S of wall; Wainwright summit is N of wall at NY 42672 11869.

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

Record revised
06-Feb-22
Drop measured from
NY 4285 1151 · 684.4 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Gray Crag is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to High Street (829 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 684 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
The Knott (High Street) 739 m 1.4 km
High Street 828.5 m 1.5 km
Hartsop Dodd 619 m 1.6 km
Thornthwaite Crag 784 m 1.7 km
Rampsgill Head 792.4 m 2 km
Stony Cove Pike 763.7 m 2 km