England · Lake District National Park

Grey Crag · Sleddale Fell

WainwrightHewittNuttallSimmBirkettSyngeFellranger

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Grey Crag, 638 m, Westmorland and Furness
Grey Crag, 638 m, Westmorland and Furness. Photo by Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
638 m · 2,093 ft
Grid reference
NY 49714 07220
Coordinates
54.45787, -2.77719
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
90
OS Explorer
OL7N
Summit feature
rocky outcrop
Key col
NY493077 (597 m)

About Grey Crag

Grey Crag, also recorded as Sleddale Fell, lies east of Longsleddale among the Far Eastern Fells of the Lake District.

It stands at 638 m in Westmorland and Furness, and appears on the Wainwright, Hewitt and Nuttall lists.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Grey 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 54.458, -2.777. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

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Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

outcrop is 40m N of Wainwright cairn (NY 49713 07177) and c 1.7m higher.

The recorded summit point is rocky outcrop. 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
28-Oct-01
Drop measured from
NY493077 · 597 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Grey Crag 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, 597 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
Harrop Pike 637 m 0.7 km
Tarn Crag (Sleddale) 663.9 m 1.1 km
nameless (Bannisdale Horseshoe - Ancrow Brow N) 541 m 1.4 km
Lord's Seat (Crookdale) 524 m 2.2 km
Swinklebank Crag 554 m 2.3 km
Shipman Knotts 587 m 2.6 km