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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Computed astronomically for 54.571, -3.242. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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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.

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 Hill 839.2 m 0.5 km
Ard Crags 581 m 1 km
Wandope 773.9 m 1.1 km
Scar Crags 672 m 1.1 km
Knott Rigg 556 m 1.4 km
Outerside 568 m 1.7 km