Lank Rigg
4 classifications here — HuMP, 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
- 541 m · 1,775 ft
- Prominence
- 110 m
- Grid reference
- NY 09165 11959
- Coordinates
- 54.49481, -3.40397
- County / area
- Cumberland
- Region
- Lake District C&W
- OS Landranger
- 89
- OS Explorer
- OL4S 303
- Summit feature
- ground within 1m of trig point
- Key col
- NY 0955 1230 (431 m)
About Lank Rigg
Lank Rigg lies south of Ennerdale among the Western Fells, a sprawling hill of gentle grassy slopes rather than crag. Various starting points on the Coldfell road give access.
The fell carries a number of remains left by ancient habitation.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Lank Rigg (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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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for 54.495, -3.404. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (541 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
cairn 3m S is lower; cairn 200m SW at NY 09024 11817 is several metres lower.
The recorded summit point is ground within 1m of trig point. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- Abney level
- Record revised
- 23-Oct-23
- Drop measured from
- NY 0955 1230 · 431 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shepherds Arms Hotel | Hotel/bed & breakfast/guest house | 4 out of 5 | 4.4 km · NW |
| Fox & Hounds Inn | Pub/bar/nightclub | 5 out of 5 | 4.4 km · NW |
| The Gather | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 5 out of 5 | 4.5 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.
Which hill this one belongs to
Lank Rigg is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Pillar (892 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 431 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.