Pillar
7 classifications here — Trail 100, Marilyn, HuMP, Simm, 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
- 892.4 m · 2,928 ft
- Prominence
- 348.7 m
- Grid reference
- NY 17126 12104
- Coordinates
- 54.49748, -3.28113
- County / area
- Cumberland
- Region
- Lake District C&W
- OS Landranger
- 89 90
- OS Explorer
- OL4S
- Summit feature
- trig point
- Key col
- NY 1916 1142 (543.7 m)
About Pillar
Pillar stands between Ennerdale to the north and Wasdale to the south, the highest of the dozen or so fells clustered around it in the Pillar group, and at 892 metres the eighth-highest mountain in the Lake District.
The fell is named for Pillar Rock, the prominent crag on the Ennerdale flank that is regarded as the birthplace of rock climbing in the district.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Pillar (Lake District) (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 54.497, -3.281. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (892 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
The recorded summit point is trig point. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- obvious summit
- Record revised
- 16-Jan-21
- Drop measured from
- NY 1916 1142 · 543.7 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.
The Pillar group
18 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Pillar as the independent hill at its head.
| Summit | Height | Drop |
|---|---|---|
| Scoat Fell | 841 m | 85 m |
| Black Crag | 828 m | 34 m |
| Red Pike (Wasdale) | 826 m | 64 m |
| Steeple | 819 m | 21 m |
| Haycock | 797 m | 94 m |
| Pillar Rock | 780 m | 18 m |
| Little Gowder Crag | 735 m | 17 m |
| Caw Fell | 697 m | 22 m |
| Iron Crag | 640 m | 54 m |
| Yewbarrow | 629 m | 144 m |
| Looking Stead (Pillar) | 628 m | 19 m |
| Yewbarrow North Top | 617 m | 33 m |
Twelve highest shown, of 18 in the group.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pillar Rock | 779.9 m | 0.3 km |
| Black Crag | 828 m | 0.7 km |
| Scoat Fell | 841 m | 1.4 km |
| Steeple | 819 m | 1.4 km |
| Looking Stead (Pillar) | 627.7 m | 1.5 km |
| Red Pike (Wasdale) | 826 m | 1.6 km |