England · Lake District National Park

Hart Crag

WainwrightHewittNuttallSimmBirkettSyngeFellranger

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

Hart Crag, 823 m, Westmorland and Furness
Hart Crag, 823 m, Westmorland and Furness. Photo by Shanesykes, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
823.1 m · 2,700 ft
Grid reference
NY 36818 11262
Coordinates
54.49275, -2.97695
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
90
OS Explorer
OL5S
Summit feature
outcrop
Key col
NY 3664 1141 (771.9 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

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Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 54.493, -2.977. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

rock near Wainwright cairn 100m SE at NY 36891 11207 is as high.

The recorded summit point is outcrop. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Leica RX1250
Record revised
19-May-19
Drop measured from
NY 3664 1141 · 771.9 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

Hart Crag is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Fairfield (873 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 772 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
Dove Crag 792 m 1 km
Fairfield 873.3 m 1.1 km
Great Rigg 766.4 m 1.5 km
Hartsop Above How 586.1 m 1.7 km
St Sunday Crag 841.2 m 2.1 km
Little Hart Crag 637 m 2.3 km