England · Lake District National Park

High Street

WainwrightHewittNuttallTrail 100MarilynHuMPSimmBirkettSyngeFellranger

7 classifications here — Trail 100, Marilyn, HuMP, Simm, Birkett, Synge and Fellranger — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.

High Street, 829 m, Westmorland and Furness
High Street, 829 m, Westmorland and Furness. Photo by Personal Photo taken by Mick Knapton at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
828.5 m · 2,718 ft
Prominence
373.8 m
Grid reference
NY 44141 11116
Coordinates
54.49230, -2.86388
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
90
OS Explorer
OL5S
Summit feature
no feature: 90m NE of trig point at NY 44077 11049
Key col
NY 4014 0825 (454.7 m)

About High Street

High Street takes its name from the Roman road that crossed its top, and at 828 m it is the highest ground in the far eastern portion of the Lake District national park. It carries a long list of classifications, among them Wainwright, Hewitt, Marilyn and Trail 100.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on High Street (Lake District) (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 54.492, -2.864. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

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Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

all natural ground in the vicinity of the trig point is lower.

The recorded summit point is no feature: 90m NE of trig point at NY 44077 11049. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Record revised
03-Jun-24
Drop measured from
NY 4014 0825 · 454.7 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.

The High Street group

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

Listed summits in the High Street prominence group
SummitHeightDrop
High Raise (High Street) 804 m 90 m
Rampsgill Head 792 m 41 m
Thornthwaite Crag 784 m 31 m
Kidsty Pike 781 m 15 m
Harter Fell (Mardale) 779 m 149 m
Mardale Ill Bell 760 m 13 m
Ill Bell 757 m 124 m
The Knott (High Street) 739 m 13 m
Kentmere Pike 731 m 40 m
Froswick 720 m 75 m
Branstree 712 m 137 m
Yoke 707 m 39 m

Twelve highest shown, of 57 in the group.

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
Mardale Ill Bell 760 m 1.2 km
Rough Crag (Riggindale) 628 m 1.3 km
Thornthwaite Crag 784 m 1.5 km
Gray Crag 698.1 m 1.5 km
Kidsty Pike 781 m 1.6 km
The Knott (High Street) 739 m 1.6 km