Great Gable
7 classifications here — Trail 100, Marilyn, HuMP, Simm, 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
- 898.8 m · 2,949 ft
- Prominence
- 425.5 m
- Grid reference
- NY 21101 10320
- Coordinates
- 54.48208, -3.21930
- County / area
- Cumberland
- Region
- Lake District C&W
- OS Landranger
- 89 90
- OS Explorer
- OL4S OL6N
- Summit feature
- rock
- Key col
- NY 2194 0948 (473.3 m)
About Great Gable
Great Gable owes its name to the pyramid it presents to Wasdale; seen from most other directions it is a dome rather than a gable. It is one of the busier Lakeland fells, with many routes converging on the top.
The high pass of Windy Gap connects it to its smaller sister Green Gable, while the lower Beck Head links it westward to Kirk Fell.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Great Gable (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.
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 54.482, -3.219. 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
The recorded summit point is rock. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- obvious summit
- Record revised
- 03-Jun-24
- Drop measured from
- NY 2194 0948 · 473.3 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.
The Great Gable group
7 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Great Gable as the independent hill at its head.
| Summit | Height | Drop |
|---|---|---|
| Green Gable | 800 m | 49 m |
| Brandreth | 715 m | 60 m |
| Grey Knotts | 697 m | 16 m |
| Fleetwith Pike | 649 m | 118 m |
| Base Brown | 646 m | 38 m |
| Honister Crag | 634 m | 21 m |
| Haystacks (Buttermere) | 597 m | 78 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Green Gable | 799.9 m | 0.5 km |
| Kirk Fell East Top | 787 m | 1.2 km |
| Kirk Fell | 802 m | 1.6 km |
| Brandreth | 715 m | 1.6 km |
| Seathwaite Fell | 631 m | 1.7 km |
| Base Brown | 646 m | 1.8 km |