Heughscar Hill
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
- 375 m · 1,230 ft
- Prominence
- 51 m
- Grid reference
- NY 48801 23164
- Coordinates
- 54.60106, -2.79405
- County / area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Region
- Lake District E
- OS Landranger
- 90
- OS Explorer
- OL5S
- Summit feature
- cairn
- Key col
- NY487223 (324 m)
About Heughscar Hill
Heughscar Hill sits in the eastern corner of the Lake District, with Ullswater to the west and the long ridge of High Street rising to the south. At 375 m it is modest by Lakeland standards, and it is one of the fells Wainwright gathered into The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.
His chapter describes an anticlockwise circuit begun at Askham, and he summed the hill up as a gem for aged fellwalkers. Beyond the Wainwright listing it also carries Birkett and Synge status.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Heughscar Hill (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 54.601, -2.794. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (375 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
cairn c 50m SW is lower.
The recorded summit point is 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
- 25-Jan-24
- Drop measured from
- NY487223 · 324 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
Heughscar Hill is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to High Street (829 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 324 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dunmallet | 240 m | 2.5 km |
| Arthur's Pike | 533 m | 3.7 km |
| Bonscale Pike | 524 m | 4.6 km |
| Knipescar Common | 341.2 m | 5.6 km |
| Loadpot Hill | 672 m | 6 km |
| Hallin Fell | 388 m | 6.4 km |