Scafell Pike
8 classifications here — Current County/UA Top, Trail 100, Marilyn, HuMP, 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.
- Height
- 978.1 m · 3,209 ft
- Prominence
- 912.2 m
- Grid reference
- NY 21541 07216
- Coordinates
- 54.45426, -3.21168
- County / area
- Cumberland
- County top
- Highest point of Cumberland
- Region
- Lake District C&W
- OS Landranger
- 89 90
- OS Explorer
- OL6N
- Summit feature
- rock by trig point
- Key col
- SJ 6368 3387 (65.9 m)
About Scafell Pike
Scafell Pike is the highest ground in England, at 978 metres, and also its most prominent mountain. It stands in the Lake District of Cumbria, among the Southern Fells.
The peak belongs to the wider Scafell massif, which is the remains of an extinct volcano.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Scafell Pike (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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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for 54.454, -3.212. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (978 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
The recorded summit point is rock by trig point. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- Leica NA730/Leica GS15/Leica RX1250
- Record revised
- 09-Jul-22
- Drop measured from
- SJ 6368 3387 · 65.9 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).
| Place | Type | Rating | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wasdale Head Inn | Hotel/bed & breakfast/guest house | 4 out of 5 | 3.2 km · W |
| Woolpack Inn | Hotel/bed & breakfast/guest house | 5 out of 5 | 6.7 km · S |
| Eskdale Campsite | Takeaway/sandwich shop | 5 out of 5 | 6.7 km · S |
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.
The Scafell Pike group
37 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Scafell Pike as the independent hill at its head.
| Summit | Height | Drop |
|---|---|---|
| Scafell | 964 m | 132 m |
| Symonds Knott | 959 m | 21 m |
| Broad Crag | 935 m | 58 m |
| Ill Crag | 931 m | 49 m |
| Great End | 910 m | 56 m |
| Bowfell | 903 m | 148 m |
| Esk Pike | 885 m | 112 m |
| Bowfell North Top | 866 m | 17 m |
| Crinkle Crags - Long Top | 859 m | 139 m |
| Crinkle Crags South Top | 834 m | 32 m |
| Shelter Crags | 815 m | 31 m |
| Lingmell | 807 m | 72 m |
Twelve highest shown, of 37 in the group.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Broad Crag | 935.3 m | 0.5 km |
| Ill Crag | 930.9 m | 0.8 km |
| Symonds Knott | 959.3 m | 0.9 km |
| Round How | 741 m | 0.9 km |
| Middleboot Knotts | 703 m | 0.9 km |
| Scafell | 963.9 m | 1.1 km |