England

Long Fell

Height
623.5 m · 2,046 ft
Grid reference
NY 76871 19810
Coordinates
54.57299, -2.35929
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
91
OS Explorer
OL19N
Summit feature
no feature: ground 8m SW of cairn
Key col
NY 77220 19730 (607 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 54.573, -2.359. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (624 m)…

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

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

grassy knoll with exploded shell casing 130m E at NY 77009 19823 is 1m lower; also just lower than Tinside Rigg.

The recorded summit point is no feature: ground 8m SW of cairn. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Leica NA730/Leica GS15
Record revised
18-Nov-16
Drop measured from
NY 77220 19730 · 607 m

Classification history: Promoted to Nuttall November 2016; col measured as 607.0m.

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).

Rated places to eat within 10 km of Long Fell
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Appleby Golf Club also trading as KLN CateringRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen4 out of 54.7 km · W
Sandford ArmsPub/bar/nightclub4 out of 55.4 km · SW
Cafe Sixty SixRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 55.6 km · W

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

Long Fell is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Mickle Fell (790 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 607 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
Tinside Rigg624 m0.7 km
Roman Fell594 m1.5 km
Little Fell748 m2.8 km
Murton Pike594 m4.7 km
Murton Fell673.6 m5.1 km
Mickle Fell790.2 m6 km