Great Dun Fell
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- Height
- 847.5 m · 2,781 ft
- Prominence
- 74 m
- Grid reference
- NY 71000 32184
- Coordinates
- 54.68388, -2.45133
- County / area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Region
- North Pennines
- OS Landranger
- 91
- OS Explorer
- OL31W
- Summit feature
- ground within radar station perimeter fence
- Key col
- NY699337 (773 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 54.684, -2.451. 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
grassy mound 45m SE at NY 71038 32156 is 30cm lower.
The recorded summit point is ground within radar station perimeter fence. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Record revised
- 23-Oct-23
- Drop measured from
- NY699337 · 773 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
One waymarked long-distance route runs 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pennine Way | 411 km | over the top |
Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.
Which hill this one belongs to
Great Dun Fell is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Cross Fell (893 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 773 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Little Dun Fell | 842 m | 1 km |
| Knock Fell | 794 m | 2.3 km |
| Cross Fell | 893.1 m | 3.1 km |
| Backstone Edge | 699 m | 4.8 km |
| Round Hill | 686 m | 5.2 km |
| Bullman Hills | 610 m | 5.2 km |