England · Lake District National Park

Hartsop Above How · Gill Crag - Hartsop Above How

WainwrightBirkettSyngeFellranger

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

Hartsop Above How, 586 m, Westmorland and Furness
Hartsop Above How, 586 m, Westmorland and Furness. Photo by Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
586.1 m · 1,923 ft
Grid reference
NY 38318 12003
Coordinates
54.49959, -2.95396
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
90
OS Explorer
OL5S
Summit feature
knoll
Key col
NY 3807 1191 (556.7 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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Computed astronomically for 54.500, -2.954. 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

local topography fits Wainwright's sketch and knoll is several metres higher than any other top on ridge; embedded rock on knoll 240m away at NY 38540 12105 is probably Wainwright's NE summit.

The recorded summit point is knoll. 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
06-Apr-22
Drop measured from
NY 3807 1191 · 556.7 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

Hartsop Above How 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, 557 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 Hartsop Dodd 519 m 1.6 km
Hart Crag 823.1 m 1.7 km
Dove Crag 792 m 1.8 km
St Sunday Crag 841.2 m 2 km
Little Hart Crag 637 m 2 km
Birks 624 m 2.4 km