Great Crag (Stonethwaite)
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.
- Height
- 449 m · 1,473 ft
- Prominence
- 34 m
- Grid reference
- NY 27001 14685
- Coordinates
- 54.52219, -3.12933
- County / area
- Cumberland
- Region
- Lake District C&W
- OS Landranger
- 89 90
- OS Explorer
- OL4S
- Summit feature
- cairn
- Key col
- NY272146 (415 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 54.522, -3.129. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
this is S top (Wainwright summit); top (two cairns) 80m N (Birkett) at NY 26998 14765 is 50cm lower.
The recorded summit point is cairn. 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
- 25-Jan-24
- Drop measured from
- NY272146 · 415 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
2 waymarked long-distance routes run 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.
| Route | Total length | From summit |
|---|---|---|
| Coast to Coast Walk | 303 km | 0.9 km |
| Cumbria Way | 119 km | 0.9 km |
Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.
Which hill this one belongs to
Great Crag (Stonethwaite) is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to High Raise (763 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 415 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Grange Fell | 417.2 m | 1.7 km |
| Low Saddle | 656.1 m | 2.3 km |
| Castle Crag | 290 m | 2.4 km |
| Rosthwaite Fell - Bessyboot | 551 m | 2.5 km |
| Eagle Crag | 522.8 m | 2.6 km |
| High Tove | 515 m | 2.6 km |