St Sunday Crag
7 classifications here — 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
- 841.2 m · 2,760 ft
- Prominence
- 160.5 m
- Grid reference
- NY 36920 13396
- Coordinates
- 54.51194, -2.97584
- County / area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Region
- Lake District E
- OS Landranger
- 90
- OS Explorer
- OL5S
- Summit feature
- rock 2m N of cairn
- Key col
- NY 3603 1252 (680.7 m)
About St Sunday Crag
St Sunday Crag belongs to the Fairfield group in the Eastern Fells, and its rounded bulk is one of the more recognisable shapes on the Patterdale skyline.
It shows to particular advantage from the upper reach of Ullswater, and that view has earned it the informal title of the Ullswater Fell.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on St Sunday Crag (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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Computed astronomically for 54.512, -2.976. 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
The recorded summit point is rock 2m N of cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- Leica RX1250
- Record revised
- 19-May-19
- Drop measured from
- NY 3603 1252 · 680.7 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.
Long-distance paths past this hill
One waymarked long-distance route runs within 2.5 km of the summit — useful if you are linking this hill into a longer walk, or want a made path for the approach.
| Route | Total length | From summit |
|---|---|---|
| Coast to Coast Walk | 303 km | 1.1 km |
Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.
The St Sunday Crag group
2 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with St Sunday Crag as the independent hill at its head.
| Summit | Height | Drop |
|---|---|---|
| Birks | 624 m | 20 m |
| Arnison Crag | 433 m | 31 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Birks | 624 m | 1.5 km |
| Fairfield | 873.3 m | 1.9 km |
| Hartsop Above How | 586.1 m | 2 km |
| Hart Crag | 823.1 m | 2.1 km |
| Dollywaggon Pike | 858.5 m | 2.3 km |
| Striding Edge | 862.9 m | 2.4 km |