England · Lake District National Park

Hare Stones

NuttallBirkettSynge

2 classifications here — Birkett and Synge — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.

Height
627 m · 2,057 ft
Grid reference
NY 31515 34393
Coordinates
54.69990, -3.06422
County / area
Cumberland/Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
90
OS Explorer
OL5N
Summit feature
ground 10m NW of small cairn
Key col
NY317346 (611 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

Sunrise
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Daylight
Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 54.700, -3.064. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (627 m)…

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

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

cairn (NY 31523 34388 is 20cm lower and is the Birkett).

The recorded summit point is ground 10m NW of small cairn. 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
15-Aug-12
Drop measured from
NY317346 · 611 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.

Long-distance paths past this hill

One waymarked long-distance route runs within 2.5 km of the summit — useful if you are linking this hill into a longer walk, or want a made path for the approach.

RouteTotal lengthFrom summit
Cumbria Way 119 km over the top

Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

Which hill this one belongs to

Hare Stones is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Knott (710 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 611 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
High Pike (Caldbeck) 658 m 0.7 km
Great Lingy Hill 616 m 0.7 km
Miller Moss 610.1 m 1.3 km
Knott 710.1 m 2.4 km
Great Sca Fell 651 m 2.4 km
Brae Fell 586 m 2.7 km