Green Crag
4 classifications here — HuMP, 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
- 488.7 m · 1,603 ft
- Prominence
- 142.4 m
- Grid reference
- SD 20015 98276
- Coordinates
- 54.37370, -3.23280
- County / area
- Cumberland
- Region
- Lake District S
- OS Landranger
- 96
- OS Explorer
- OL6N
- Summit feature
- rock 5m NW of cairn
- Key col
- SD 2097 9911 (346.3 m)
About Green Crag
Green Crag is a Southern Fell of the Lake District, standing on the ground between Eskdale and the Duddon valley. Its northern slopes fall within the civil parish of Eskdale and its southern slopes within Ulpha, both in the Cumberland unitary authority and the ceremonial county of Cumbria. At 488.7 m it appears on the Wainwright, Birkett, Synge and Fellranger lists.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Green Crag (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 54.374, -3.233. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (489 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
rib of rock 25m NE of summit at SD 20033 98293 is 2cm lower.
The recorded summit point is rock 5m NW of cairn. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- Abney level/Leica RX1250
- Record revised
- 12-May-25
- Drop measured from
- SD 2097 9911 · 346.3 m
Classification history: Submarilyn status removed in May 2025 following redefinition by list author.
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
Green Crag is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Harter Fell (Eskdale) (653 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 346 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Great Worm Crag | 427 m | 1.5 km |
| Harter Fell (Eskdale) | 653.2 m | 2.3 km |
| Seat How (Birker Moor) | 311 m | 3.6 km |
| Rough Crag (Birker Moor) | 319 m | 3.9 km |
| Hesk Fell | 478.1 m | 4.3 km |
| Water Crag | 305 m | 4.7 km |