Red Beck Top · Glaramara South Top] [Lincomb Head - Glaramara

About Red Beck Top

Red Beck Top is one of the subsidiary tops on the Glaramara ridge, a long spine of over six kilometres running from Stonethwaite in Borrowdale to the pass of Esk Hause. Glaramara's own 783 m summit sits at the centre of that ridge, which separates Langstrath from Grains Gill.

The ridge carries two further fells alongside its numerous tops and several small tarns, so Red Beck Top is best understood as one incident along a substantial traverse rather than a hill approached in isolation.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Glaramara (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 54.477, -3.170. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is rock 7m W of cairn on 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

23-Oct-23

Drop measured from

NY 2442 0983 · 683.4 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Red Beck Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Scafell Pike (978 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 683 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