Meal Fell
3 classifications here — 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
- 549.4 m · 1,802 ft
- Prominence
- 29.3 m
- Grid reference
- NY 28301 33763
- Coordinates
- 54.69380, -3.11392
- County / area
- Cumberland
- Region
- Lake District N
- OS Landranger
- 89 90
- OS Explorer
- OL4N
- Summit feature
- small cairn
- Key col
- NY 2856 3376 (520.1 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 54.694, -3.114. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
cairn is 2m higher and 65m NE of large shelter (Wainwright/Birkett summit) which is at NY 28258 33711.
The recorded summit point is 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 2856 3376 · 520.1 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
Meal Fell is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Knott (710 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 520 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Great Sca Fell | 651 m | 0.8 km |
| Great Cockup | 526 m | 1.1 km |
| Knott | 710.1 m | 1.5 km |
| Brae Fell | 586 m | 1.5 km |
| Longlands Fell | 483 m | 1.8 km |
| Miller Moss | 610.1 m | 2.1 km |