England · Lake District National Park

Great Yarlside

One classification here — Birkett — belongs to a list OpenFell holds only part of, so it has no list page. See how far the coverage goes.

Height
591 m · 1,939 ft
Grid reference
NY 52514 07595
Coordinates
54.46151, -2.73407
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
90
OS Explorer
OL7N
Summit feature
small cairn
Key col
NY524077 (585 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 54.462, -2.734. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (591 m)…

Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is small cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Abney level
Record revised
08-Jun-09
Drop measured from
NY524077 · 585 m

Classification history: Highest point of fell is hill 3661 which is now a Subdodd, having once been a Dewey.

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).

Rated places to eat within 10 km of Great Yarlside
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Shap Wells HotelRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen2 out of 55.7 km · E
Maggs HoweRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 57.4 km · SW
Haweswater HotelRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 57.9 km · N

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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Great Yarlside is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Tarn Crag (Sleddale) (664 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 585 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
Little Yarlside518 m0.7 km
Great Saddle Crag560 m1.1 km
Lord's Seat (Crookdale)524 m1.2 km
Wasdale Pike565 m1.4 km
Robin Hood492 m1.8 km
Ulthwaite Rigg502 m2 km