England · Lake District National Park

Tarn Crag (Sleddale)

WainwrightHewittNuttallMarilynHuMPSimmBirkettSyngeFellranger

6 classifications here — 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
663.9 m · 2,178 ft
Prominence
160.3 m
Grid reference
NY 48791 07865
Coordinates
54.46358, -2.79154
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
90
OS Explorer
OL7N
Summit feature
no feature: grassy rise
Key col
NY 4851 0886 (503.6 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 54.464, -2.792. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

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Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

tall pillar 60m S at NY 48784 07802; cairn 60m ESE at NY 48848 07851 is c 0.5m lower and is Wainwright's summit.

The recorded summit point is no feature: grassy rise. 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
03-Jun-24
Drop measured from
NY 4851 0886 · 503.6 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.

The Tarn Crag (Sleddale) group

27 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Tarn Crag (Sleddale) as the independent hill at its head.

Listed summits in the Tarn Crag (Sleddale) prominence group
SummitHeightDrop
Grey Crag 638 m 41 m
Harrop Pike 637 m 15 m
Great Yarlside 591 m 6 m
Wasdale Pike 565 m 5 m
Great Saddle Crag 560 m 2 m
Swinklebank Crag 554 m 46 m
nameless (Bannisdale Horseshoe - Ancrow Brow N) 541 m 16 m
High Wether Howe 531 m 66 m
White Howe (Bannisdale) 530 m 73 m
The Forest 528 m 40 m
Lord's Seat (Crookdale) 524 m 36 m
Little Yarlside 518 m 11 m

Twelve highest shown, of 27 in the group.

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

PeakHeightDistance
Grey Crag 638 m 1.1 km
Harrop Pike 637 m 1.3 km
Kentmere Pike 730.5 m 2.2 km
Shipman Knotts 587 m 2.2 km
Branstree 711.5 m 2.4 km
Branstree NE Top 673 m 2.5 km