nameless (Potter Fell - 2) · Potter Fell
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- Height
- 390 m · 1,280 ft
- Prominence
- 45 m
- Grid reference
- NY 49665 00351
- Coordinates
- 54.39614, -2.77678
- County / area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Region
- Lake District E
- OS Landranger
- 90
- OS Explorer
- OL7N
- Summit feature
- stone on grassy knoll
- Key col
- NY 49205 00337 (345 m)
About nameless (Potter Fell - 2)
This unnamed 390 m top is one of four summits Wainwright identified on Potter Fell in The Outlying Fells of Lakeland, alongside Brunt Knott, Ulgraves and a second nameless point. All four are carried through into the Database of British and Irish Hills, which is why a summit without a name of its own gets a page here.
Potter Fell itself rises between the villages of Burneside and Staveley in the eastern Lake District, topping out at around 430 m on Brunt Knott. Water is a feature of the fell: Gurnal Dubs and Potter Tarn are among several tarns scattered across it.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Potter 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 54.396, -2.777. 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
The recorded summit point is stone on grassy knoll. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- obvious summit
- Record revised
- 23-Aug-10
- Drop measured from
- NY 49205 00337 · 345 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.
Long-distance paths past this hill
One waymarked long-distance route runs within 2.5 km of the summit — useful if you are linking this hill into a longer walk, or want a made path for the approach.
| Route | Total length | From summit |
|---|---|---|
| Dales Way | 129 km | 2.5 km |
Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.
Which hill this one belongs to
nameless (Potter Fell - 2) is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to High Street (829 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 345 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 |
|---|---|---|
| nameless (Potter Fell - 1) | 395 m | 0.9 km |
| Brunt Knott | 427 m | 1.2 km |
| Ulgraves | 333 m | 1.6 km |
| Todd Fell | 401 m | 2.3 km |
| Whiteside Pike | 397 m | 2.7 km |
| Capplebarrow | 512.7 m | 3.4 km |