Rampsgill Head
4 classifications here — 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
- 792.4 m · 2,600 ft
- Prominence
- 41.1 m
- Grid reference
- NY 44333 12871
- Coordinates
- 54.50809, -2.86125
- County / area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Region
- Lake District E
- OS Landranger
- 90
- OS Explorer
- OL5S
- Summit feature
- rock
- Key col
- NY 4458 1308 (751.3 m)
About Rampsgill Head
Rampsgill Head rises west of Haweswater Reservoir in the Far Eastern Fells, at 792.4 m. Three ridges radiate from it, running north-east, north-west and south, which makes it a junction point rather than a terminus.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Rampsgill Head (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 54.508, -2.861. 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
Wainwright's cairn is 145m SW at NY 44227 12772 and is 1m lower; rock 80m SW at NY 44293 12800 and ground 90m SW at NY 44276 12801 are both of similar height.
The recorded summit point is rock. 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
- 06-Apr-22
- Drop measured from
- NY 4458 1308 · 751.3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coast to Coast Walk | 303 km | over the top |
Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.
Which hill this one belongs to
Rampsgill Head 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, 751 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kidsty Pike | 781 m | 0.5 km |
| The Knott (High Street) | 739 m | 0.6 km |
| High Raise (High Street) | 803.6 m | 0.8 km |
| Rest Dodd | 696 m | 1.3 km |
| High Street | 828.5 m | 1.8 km |
| Gray Crag | 698.1 m | 2 km |