England · Lake District National Park

nameless (Top o' Selside - Brock Barrow)

Height
221 m · 725 ft
Grid reference
SD 29812 89813
Coordinates
54.29910, -3.08002
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
96 97
OS Explorer
OL6N OL7S
Summit feature
tall square cairn
Key col
SD298898 (218 m)

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 54.299, -3.080. 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

Surveyor's note

about 8m lower than true summit (rock outcrop) 105m NE at SD 29884 89887; Wainwright's second cairn is 210m N at SD 29810 90025.

The recorded summit point is tall square 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
04-Feb-12
Drop measured from
SD298898 · 218 m

Classification history: Wainwright's route goes directly from the tall square cairn to a 2nd cairn at SD298900, by-passing the true summit. He incorrectly attributes the height of the true summit to his chosen cairn. See Database Notes..

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

Which hill this one belongs to

nameless (Top o' Selside - Brock Barrow) is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Top o' Selside — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 218 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

PeakHeightDistance
Low Light Haw 250 m 0.4 km
High Light Haw 263 m 0.8 km
Beacon Fell 255 m 2.2 km
Top o' Selside (Wainwright summit) 332.3 m 2.3 km
Wool Knott 223 m 2.5 km
Tottlebank Height 236 m 3.2 km