Scoat Fell

About Scoat Fell

Scoat Fell occupies the head of the Mosedale Horseshoe in the western Lake District, turning its back on Ennerdale.

Paths converge on it from several directions: up from Ennerdale by way of Steeple, from Wasdale over Red Pike, and along the connecting ridge from Pillar.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Scoat 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

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 54.491, -3.299. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is rock N of wall. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

23-Oct-23

Drop measured from

NY168117 · 756 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

Scoat Fell is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Pillar (892 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 756 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