Low Fell

About Low Fell

Low Fell looks south over Loweswater and is bordered to the north by its neighbour Fellbarrow. Ascents usually begin from the villages of Loweswater or Thackthwaite.

Much of the fell is taken up by grassed enclosures, with a few rocky outcrops near the top, and the slopes on the south and east sides are fairly steep. At 422.5 m it is a Marilyn as well as a Wainwright.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Low Fell (Lake District) (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 54.591, -3.337. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is ground by small 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

05-Feb-23

Drop measured from

NY 1058 2375 · 155.9 m

Classification history: An alternative location for the Wainwright is the south top at NY136223 (417.1m).

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).

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.

The Low Fell group

One other listed summit sits in the same prominence group, with Low Fell as the independent hill at its head.

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