Muncaster Fell - Hooker Crag

About Muncaster Fell - Hooker Crag

Hooker Crag is the high point of Muncaster Fell, at 231 metres, and the fell itself is what gives it interest: a long, narrow ridge roughly 6 km from end to end and only about 1.2 km wide, at the far western edge of the Lake District National Park.

The ridge is hemmed by the River Mite to the north and the Esk to the south. It lifts from the coast near Ravenglass to Hooker Crag, then runs north-east, easing down to a final rise at Silver Knott at 174 metres before dropping sharply to Eskdale Green at its far end.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Muncaster 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 54.373, -3.368. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is outcrop 35m N of trig point. 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

20-Oct-16

Drop measured from

SD 11451 98571 · 201.1 m

Classification history: Promoted to Tump in Oct 2016; Marilyn moved to hill 19242 in Sept 2016.

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Reaching Muncaster Fell - Hooker Crag by train

One National Rail station sits within 8 km of the summit — close enough to make a car-free day of it. Distances are straight lines, not walking routes.

Each station page lists every hill in its reach, long-distance paths from the door and a live-times link — see all stations with hills in reach. Station positions from NaPTAN (OGL v3.0).

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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Muncaster Fell - Hooker Crag is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Muncaster Fell — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 201 m. That hill is outside the lists OpenFell publishes, so it has no page here.

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