Seathwaite Fell · Great Slack - Seathwaite Fell

About Seathwaite Fell

Seathwaite Fell rises above the hamlet of the same name at the head of Borrowdale in the Lake District. The summit recorded here, Great Slack, stands at 631 m and carries Hewitt, Nuttall, Simm, Birkett and Synge status. The Wikipedia intro offers little beyond its setting, so this note is deliberately short.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Seathwaite 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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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 54.477, -3.194. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is cairn on rock. 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

30-Oct-21

Drop measured from

NY 2290 0908 · 600 m

Classification history: probably higher than hill 2448. Col 600.0m.

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

Seathwaite Fell is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Scafell Pike (978 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 600 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