Lingmell

About Lingmell

Lingmell rises above Wasdale Head, an outlier thrown out from the north-west flank of Scafell Pike, the highest mountain in England. At 807 m it counts as a Wainwright, Hewitt and Nuttall, but it is a shoulder of a larger mass rather than a freestanding fell.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Lingmell (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 54.463, -3.221. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is rock 3m E of cairn. 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

28-Oct-01

Drop measured from

NY210079 · 735 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

Lingmell is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Scafell Pike (978 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 735 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