England · Lake District National Park

Grisedale Pike

WainwrightHewittNuttallTrail 100MarilynHuMPSimmBirkettSyngeFellranger

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Grisedale Pike, 790 m, Cumberland
Grisedale Pike, 790 m, Cumberland. Photo by Mick Knapton at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
790.3 m · 2,593 ft
Grid reference
NY 19841 22547
Coordinates
54.59175, -3.24207
County / area
Cumberland
OS Landranger
89 90
OS Explorer
OL4S
Summit feature
cairn
Key col
NY 1886 2126 (599.4 m)

About Grisedale Pike

Grisedale Pike lies about 7 km west of Keswick in the north-western sector of the national park. At 791 m it is the 40th-highest Wainwright, and also counts as a Hewitt, Marilyn and Nuttall.

Seen from the east, and especially from around Keswick, it presents a striking pointed outline. It has two subsidiary summits, one of them unnamed and the other Hobcarton End.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Grisedale Pike (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.

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Computed astronomically for 54.592, -3.242. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

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The Grisedale Pike group

6 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Grisedale Pike as the independent hill at its head.

Listed summits in the Grisedale Pike prominence group
SummitHeightDrop
Hopegill Head 770 m 97 m
Sand Hill 756 m 18 m
Hobcarton Crag 738 m 36 m
Whiteside East Top 719 m 39 m
Whiteside 707 m 17 m
Ladyside Pike 704 m 29 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
Hobcarton Crag 737.6 m 0.7 km
Hopegill Head 769.6 m 1.3 km
Sand Hill 756 m 1.3 km
Ladyside Pike 703.5 m 1.4 km
Outerside 568 m 1.7 km
Scar Crags 672 m 2.1 km