Kinder Scout
5 classifications here — Current County/UA Top, Trail 100, Marilyn, HuMP and Simm — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.
- Height
- 636.3 m · 2,088 ft
- Prominence
- 496.6 m
- Grid reference
- SK 08484 87560
- Coordinates
- 53.38481, -1.87391
- County / area
- Derbyshire
- OS Landranger
- 110
- OS Explorer
- OL1W
- Summit feature
- grassy prominence on peat mound
- Key col
- SD 89482 48616 (139.6 m)
About Kinder Scout
Kinder Scout is a peat moorland plateau rather than a peaked summit, spread across the Dark Peak of the Derbyshire Peak District and designated a National Nature Reserve.
At 636 m, part of the moor is the highest ground in the Peak District, in Derbyshire and in the East Midlands. It is a Hewitt, Nuttall, Marilyn and Simm, and appears on the Trail 100 list.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Kinder Scout (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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- Sunset
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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for 53.385, -1.874. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (636 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
cairn 35m SW (SK 08462 87538) 69cm lower; cairn 200m E (SK 08678 87549) 47cm lower; cairn 475m ENE (SK 08953 87619) about 75cm lower; ground 340m WSW (SK 08180 87395) 30cm lower.
The recorded summit point is grassy prominence on peat mound. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- Leica NA730/Leica 530
- Record revised
- 25-Apr-11
- Drop measured from
- SD 89482 48616 · 139.6 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.
| Route | Total length | From summit |
|---|---|---|
| Pennine Way | 411 km | 0.6 km |
Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.
The Kinder Scout group
3 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Kinder Scout as the independent hill at its head.
| Summit | Height | Drop |
|---|---|---|
| Bleaklow Head | 633 m | 128 m |
| Higher Shelf Stones | 622 m | 20 m |
| Newtonwood Lane (boundary) | 205 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Higher Shelf Stones | 621.8 m | 7.2 km |
| Bleaklow Head | 633 m | 8.6 km |
| Black Hill | 581.1 m | 17.2 km |
| Cheeks Hill (boundary) | 518.9 m | 18.6 km |