Gummer's How

About Gummer's How

Standing above the eastern shore of Windermere towards its southern end, Gummer's How is the highest of the foothills in this part of the Lake District at 321 m. The name uses how, from the Old Norse haugr, a common local word for a hill or mound. The view runs the length of Windermere and reaches the Coniston fells, the central fells and the sweep of Morecambe Bay. A trig pillar marks the top.

Most walkers set out from the road at Astley's Plantation car park, itself above 200 m and only about 700 metres from the summit. The lower ground is forested and the upper part moorland, with rowan, bracken and heather, short steep pitches and rock to work around. Wainwright covered it in The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Gummer's How (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

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 54.288, -2.938. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

03-Jun-24

Drop measured from

SD 4044 9450 · 104.4 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 Gummer's How group

7 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Gummer's How as the independent hill at its head.

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