Skiddaw Little Man
4 classifications here — 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
- 865 m · 2,838 ft
- Prominence
- 60.6 m
- Grid reference
- NY 26676 27792
- Coordinates
- 54.63991, -3.13763
- County / area
- Cumberland
- Region
- Lake District N
- OS Landranger
- 89 90
- OS Explorer
- OL4S
- Summit feature
- rock 5m N of cairn
- Key col
- NY 2650 2808 (804.4 m)
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 54.640, -3.138. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
old Wainwright cairn probably stood at NY 26680 27785. Modern cairn rebuilt at NY 26676 27787.
The recorded summit point is rock 5m N of cairn. 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
- 27-Jan-24
- Drop measured from
- NY 2650 2808 · 804.4 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
Skiddaw Little Man is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Skiddaw (930 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 804 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Carl Side | 746.8 m | 1.2 km |
| Sale How | 666 m | 1.3 km |
| Skiddaw | 930.4 m | 1.4 km |
| Long Side | 734 m | 1.9 km |
| Lonscale Fell | 715 m | 2 km |
| Dodd (Skiddaw) | 502 m | 2.3 km |