Seat Robert

About Seat Robert

Seat Robert lies south-west of Shap in the eastern Lake District, reaching 515 metres. Instead of the usual trig pillar it has a cairn and an Ordnance Survey ring set at ground level.

Wainwright covered it in The Outlying Fells of Lakeland with a clockwise circuit from Swindale, taking in Langhowe Pike at 400 metres and Great Ladstones at 439 metres on the way up, then continuing over High Wether Howe at 520 metres and Fewling Stones at 508 metres. The opening section follows the Old Corpse Road, along which the dead were once carried from Mardale for burial at Shap.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Seat Robert (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 54.496, -2.733. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is cairn by windshelter. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Record revised

23-Oct-23

Drop measured from

NY521110 · 483 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

Seat Robert is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Tarn Crag (Sleddale) (664 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 483 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.

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