England · Lake District National Park

Nab Scar

WainwrightBirkettSyngeFellranger

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
450 m · 1,476 ft
Grid reference
NY 35537 07236
Coordinates
54.45641, -2.99585
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
90
OS Explorer
OL7N
Summit feature
large cairn beyond wall
Key col
NY355072 (448 m)

About Nab Scar

Nab Scar is an outlier of the Fairfield group in the Eastern Fells, standing above Rydal Water. At 450 metres it is a Wainwright, Birkett and Fellranger summit.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Nab Scar (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 54.456, -2.996. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (450 m)…

Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

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).

Rated places to eat within 10 km of Nab Scar
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Rydal Mount TearoomRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 51.2 km · SE
Rydal Hall Tea RoomRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 51.4 km · SE
The Cafe at Wordsworth GrasmereRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 51.4 km · W

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

Nab Scar is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Fairfield (873 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 448 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

PeakHeightDistance
Heron Pike (Rydal)612 m1.1 km
Heron Pike North Top621.3 m1.4 km
Low Pike508 m1.9 km
Stone Arthur504 m2.1 km
Loughrigg Fell335.1 m2.3 km
High Pike (Scandale)657 m2.5 km