Robin Hood
2 classifications here — Birkett and Synge — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.
- Height
- 492 m · 1,614 ft
- Prominence
- 30 m
- Grid reference
- NY 53037 05867
- Coordinates
- 54.44603, -2.72572
- County / area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Region
- Lake District E
- OS Landranger
- 90
- OS Explorer
- OL7N
- Summit feature
- tiny cairn
- Key col
- NY 5254 0634 (462 m)
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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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for 54.446, -2.726. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (492 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
cairn 230m NW at NY 52881 06035 is 1.5m lower; beacon/ancient cairn is 70m SW at NY 52988 05818 and is also lower.
The recorded summit point is tiny cairn. 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
- 09-Aug-20
- Drop measured from
- NY 5254 0634 · 462 m
Classification history: decimalised heights 492.0/462.0/P30.0.
Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.
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).
| Place | Type | Rating | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shap Wells Hotel | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 2 out of 5 | 6.1 km · NE |
| Maggs Howe | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 5 out of 5 | 7.2 km · W |
| Tebay Motorway Services (Northbound) | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 5 out of 5 | 7.5 km · E |
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
Robin Hood is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Tarn Crag (Sleddale) (664 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 462 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Whatshaw Common | 490 m | 1.2 km |
| Little Yarlside | 518 m | 1.3 km |
| Lord's Seat (Crookdale) | 524 m | 1.4 km |
| High House Bank | 495 m | 1.6 km |
| Bannisdale Fell - Long Crag | 493 m | 1.6 km |
| Great Yarlside | 591 m | 1.8 km |