Newton Fell South · Dixon Heights

About Newton Fell South

Newton Fell, northeast of the A590 near High Newton and southeast of Newby Bridge, has two tops, and this is the southern one — the summit Wainwright called Newton Fell (south), otherwise Dixon Heights. Its northern counterpart is the higher of the pair at around 240 m.

The fell forms one chapter of The Outlying Fells of Lakeland, in which Wainwright sets out a separate walk to each top. Neither summit is reached by a public right of way; he noted that both walks depend on the goodwill of owners and tenants.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Newton 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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Computed astronomically for 54.226, -2.901. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is slight rocky/grassy rise 4m from ruined tower. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Record revised

25-Jan-24

Drop measured from

SD414818 · 139 m

Classification history: Not in Turner's list.

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 Newton Fell South by train

2 National Rail stations sit 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

Newton Fell South is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Gummer's How (321 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 139 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.

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