Lonscale Fell

About Lonscale Fell

Lonscale Fell marks the eastern end of the Skiddaw massif, and its pointed second top makes the fell easy to pick out from a distance. Keswick and Skiddaw House, to the north, both sit within reach of it.

Sheep pasture covers most of the ground today, but the long eastern wall of crag below the top once saw a good deal of mining activity.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Lonscale Fell (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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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 54.634, -3.109. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is no feature: ground 25m S 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

23-Oct-23

Drop measured from

NY280273 · 663 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 lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

Which hill this one belongs to

Lonscale Fell is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Skiddaw (930 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 663 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