England · Lake District National Park

Kinmont Buck Barrow

2 classifications here — Birkett and Synge — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.

Height
535 m · 1,755 ft
Grid reference
SD 14680 90971
Coordinates
54.30720, -3.31281
County / area
Cumberland
OS Landranger
96
OS Explorer
OL6N OL6S
Summit feature
cairn
Key col
SD149910 (514 m)

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 54.307, -3.313. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

Finding the summit

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

Survey method
obvious summit
Record revised
08-May-25
Drop measured from
SD149910 · 514 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

Kinmont Buck Barrow is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Whitfell (573 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 514 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

PeakHeightDistance
Buck Barrow 549 m 0.5 km
Burn Moor 543 m 1.5 km
Whitfell 573.3 m 2.3 km
Stainton Pike 498 m 3.3 km
Stoupdale Head 472 m 3.6 km
The Knott (Stainton Fell) 331 m 4.2 km