High Stile · Grey Crag - High Stile

About High Stile

High Stile is the highest of the range of fells running north-west from Great Gable towards Loweswater. With Red Pike and High Crag it makes up a trio above the lake and village of Buttermere.

The Buttermere side carries high crags, wild combes and the small Bleaberry Tarn. At 807 metres with 362 metres of relative height, it ranks as the eleventh-highest English Marilyn, and is usually taken as part of a traverse of the three fells.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on High Stile (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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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 54.522, -3.284. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is small cairn on outcrop. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level/Leica RX1250

Record revised

06-Feb-22

Drop measured from

NY189133 · 445 m

Classification history: Hill 3728 at NY167147 is Wainwright, B&L top and another Birkett.

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

The High Stile group

7 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with High Stile as the independent hill at its head.

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