England · Lake District National Park

Sail

WainwrightHewittNuttallSimmBirkettSyngeFellranger

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.

Sail, 773 m, Cumberland
Sail, 773 m, Cumberland. Photo by Cacolantern at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Height
773 m · 2,536 ft
Grid reference
NY 19817 20275
Coordinates
54.57133, -3.24182
County / area
Cumberland
OS Landranger
89 90
OS Explorer
OL4S
Summit feature
ground 10m SW of cairn
Key col
NY196202 (741 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 54.571, -3.242. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (773 m)…

Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

cairn is at NY 19821 20281.

The recorded summit point is ground 10m SW of 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
28-Oct-01
Drop measured from
NY196202 · 741 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.

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).

Rated places to eat within 10 km of Sail
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Scotgate Tea Room and ShopRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 54.9 km · NE
The Flight ParkRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 55.4 km · NE
Sykefarm Tearoom and Gifts Ltd (Braithwaite)Takeaway/sandwich shop5 out of 55.4 km · NE

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

Sail is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Grasmoor (852 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 741 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

PeakHeightDistance
Crag Hill839.2 m0.5 km
Ard Crags581 m1 km
Wandope773.9 m1.1 km
Scar Crags672 m1.1 km
Knott Rigg556 m1.4 km
Outerside568 m1.7 km