Mungrisdale Common

About Mungrisdale Common

Mungrisdale Common — pronounced mun-GRIZE-dl — has an unusual claim to fame: of the 214 fells in Alfred Wainwright's Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, it was the one he liked least. He wrote that it had no more pretension to elegance than a pudding someone had sat on. Some suspect he included it merely to fill pages, though that has never been established.

The name is a puzzle in itself, since the fell lies several miles from the village of Mungrisdale and in a different river catchment altogether.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Mungrisdale Common (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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Computed astronomically for 54.653, -3.068. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is no feature. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Record revised

11-Jul-21

Drop measured from

NY 3130 2914 · 629.3 m

Classification history: Wainwright's 2068' height does not appear to correspond to any topographical feature.

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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Mungrisdale Common is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Blencathra - Hallsfell Top (868 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 629 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