Hopegill Head

About Hopegill Head

Hopegill Head stands about nine kilometres west of Keswick in the north-western fells, and is well seen from the B5292 over Whinlatter Pass. At 770 metres it qualifies as a Wainwright, Hewitt and Nuttall.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Hopegill Head (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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Computed astronomically for 54.588, -3.262. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is rock. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit

Record revised

05-Jan-20

Drop measured from

NY 1906 2198 · 672.4 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

Hopegill Head is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Grisedale Pike (790 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 672 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