Harter Fell (Eskdale)
6 classifications here — Marilyn, HuMP, 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.
- Height
- 653.2 m · 2,143 ft
- Prominence
- 273.5 m
- Grid reference
- SD 21877 99715
- Coordinates
- 54.38692, -3.20452
- County / area
- Cumberland
- Region
- Lake District S
- OS Landranger
- 96
- OS Explorer
- OL6N
- Summit feature
- rock tor
- Key col
- NY 2288 0120 (379.8 m)
About Harter Fell (Eskdale)
Harter Fell sits between Eskdale and the Duddon valley in the western Lake District. Several walking routes reach the summit.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Harter Fell (Eskdale) (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 54.387, -3.205. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (653 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
rock tor 20m ENE is 1.6m lower.
The recorded summit point is rock tor. 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
- 10-Apr-21
- Drop measured from
- NY 2288 0120 · 379.8 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 Harter Fell (Eskdale) group
2 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Harter Fell (Eskdale) as the independent hill at its head.
| Summit | Height | Drop |
|---|---|---|
| Green Crag | 489 m | 142 m |
| Great Worm Crag | 427 m | 34 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Green Crag | 488.7 m | 2.3 km |
| Hard Knott | 549.6 m | 3 km |
| Great Worm Crag | 427 m | 3.8 km |
| Grey Friar | 773 m | 4.2 km |
| Dow Crag | 778 m | 4.8 km |
| Little Stand | 740 m | 4.8 km |