Hen Comb

About Hen Comb

Hen Comb is one of the Loweswater Fells, lying south of both Loweswater lake and the village of the same name in the west of the Lake District. Its height is moderate, but bogs surround much of it, and that wet ground rather than the climb itself is the fell's chief obstacle.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Hen Comb (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 54.551, -3.343. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

obvious summit

Record revised

16-Jan-21

Drop measured from

NY 1282 1758 · 367.4 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Hen Comb is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Blake Fell (573 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 367 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.

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