Sale Fell
4 classifications here — HuMP, 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
- 359 m · 1,178 ft
- Prominence
- 139 m
- Grid reference
- NY 19445 29664
- Coordinates
- 54.65563, -3.25016
- County / area
- Cumberland
- Region
- Lake District N
- OS Landranger
- 89 90
- OS Explorer
- OL4S
- Summit feature
- outcrop
- Key col
- NY205281 (220 m)
About Sale Fell
Sale Fell is a small hill near Cockermouth at the northern edge of the Lake District, rising to 359 m. It is popular with people living locally for its gentle walking and its views across Bassenthwaite Lake to Skiddaw.
It appears in the Wainwright, Birkett, Synge and Fellranger lists and also counts as a HuMP.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Sale Fell (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 54.656, -3.250. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (359 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
there is no longer any evidence of the cairn described by Wainwright and Birkett.
The recorded summit point is outcrop. 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
- 25-Jan-24
- Drop measured from
- NY205281 · 220 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
Sale Fell is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Lord's Seat (552 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 220 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ling Fell | 374 m | 1.8 km |
| Broom Fell | 510.2 m | 2.6 km |
| Lord's Seat | 552 m | 3.3 km |
| Barf | 469 m | 3.5 km |
| Graystones | 450.4 m | 3.5 km |
| Watch Hill | 255.4 m | 4.1 km |