England · Lake District National Park

High Spy North Top

NuttallSynge

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High Spy North Top, 634 m, Cumberland
High Spy North Top, 634 m, Cumberland. Photo by Mick Knapton at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
634 m · 2,080 ft
Grid reference
NY 23685 17116
Coordinates
54.54354, -3.18118
County / area
Cumberland
OS Landranger
89 90
OS Explorer
OL4S
Summit feature
cairn
Key col
NY234167 (618 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 54.544, -3.181. 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

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
15-Aug-12
Drop measured from
NY234167 · 618 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.

Long-distance paths past this hill

One waymarked long-distance route runs within 2.5 km of the summit — useful if you are linking this hill into a longer walk, or want a made path for the approach.

RouteTotal lengthFrom summit
Cumbria Way 119 km 1.3 km

Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

Which hill this one belongs to

High Spy North Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Dale Head (754 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 618 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 Spy 653.1 m 0.9 km
Maiden Moor 575 m 1.1 km
Castle Crag 290 m 1.7 km
Hindscarth 727 m 2.2 km
Dale Head 754 m 2.3 km
Cat Bells 451 m 2.8 km