Mickle Fell
4 classifications here — Current County/UA Top, Marilyn, HuMP and Simm — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.
- Height
- 790.2 m · 2,593 ft
- Prominence
- 212.2 m
- Grid reference
- NY 80600 24539
- Coordinates
- 54.61564, -2.30192
- County / area
- Durham
- Region
- North Pennines
- OS Landranger
- 91 92
- OS Explorer
- OL19N
- Summit feature
- rock 15m ENE of large cairn
- Key col
- NY 7471 2653 (578 m)
About Mickle Fell
Mickle Fell rises in the Pennines about 16 km south of Cross Fell, set slightly off the range's main watershed. Among Marilyns within the North Pennines AONB, only Cross Fell exceeds it.
Its status as a county top is layered. It is the highest ground in the historic county of Yorkshire, and it forms part of southern Teesdale, transferred from the North Riding to County Durham by the Local Government Act 1972 with effect from 1974 — which also makes it the top of the present Durham unitary area. Historic County Durham's high point is Burnhope Seat, between Teesdale and Weardale.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Mickle 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
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 54.616, -2.302. 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
small cairn 7m NNE is of similar height.
The recorded summit point is rock 15m ENE of large 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
- 21-Jul-24
- Drop measured from
- NY 7471 2653 · 578 m
Classification history: B&L give NY805245.
Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.
The Mickle Fell group
5 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Mickle Fell as the independent hill at its head.
| Summit | Height | Drop |
|---|---|---|
| Little Fell | 748 m | 72 m |
| Murton Fell | 674 m | 74 m |
| Tinside Rigg | 624 m | 19 m |
| Long Fell | 624 m | 17 m |
| Bink Moss | 619 m | 42 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Little Fell | 748 m | 3.4 km |
| Murton Fell | 673.6 m | 5.3 km |
| Tinside Rigg | 624 m | 5.5 km |
| Meldon Hill | 767 m | 5.7 km |
| Long Fell | 623.5 m | 6 km |
| Bink Moss | 619 m | 7 km |