Pike of Stickle

About Pike of Stickle

Pike of Stickle, also written Pike o' Stickle, rises above Great Langdale in the central Lake District and reaches 709 m. With Harrison Stickle and Loft Crag it makes up the Langdale Pikes, among the best-known skylines in Lakeland.

The name is partly tautological: a stickle is a hill with a steep, prominent rocky top, while a pike is a hill with a peaked summit.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Pike of Stickle (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 54.456, -3.121. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit

Record revised

23-Oct-23

Drop measured from

NY275077 · 653 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 lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

Which hill this one belongs to

Pike of Stickle is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to High Raise (763 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 653 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