High Street
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.
- 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
- Region
- Lake District E
- 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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- Daylight
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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for 54.492, -2.864. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (829 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
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.
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).
| Place | Type | Rating | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Brotherswater Hotel | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 5 out of 5 | 3.9 km · NW |
| Kirkstone Pass Inn | Pub/bar/nightclub | 2 out of 5 | 5 km · SW |
| Side Farm Tea Room | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 5 out of 5 | 6.4 km · NW |
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 Street group
57 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with High Street as the independent hill at its head.
| Summit | Height | Drop |
|---|---|---|
| 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |