England · Lake District National Park

Tarn Hill

2 classifications here — Birkett and Synge — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.

Height
313 m · 1,027 ft
Grid reference
SD 20951 92098
Coordinates
54.31833, -3.21676
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
96
OS Explorer
OL6N
Summit feature
cairn
Key col
SD210925 (283 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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Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 54.318, -3.217. 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

Surveyor's note

N top is about as high.

The recorded summit point is 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
25-Jan-24
Drop measured from
SD210925 · 283 m

Classification history: Position of summit indeterminate; the ridge traversed by Wainwright's route has three 310m contours on the current 1:25000 map.

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

Tarn Hill is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to The Old Man of Coniston (802 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 283 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

PeakHeightDistance
Dunnerdale Fells 280 m 0.3 km
Great Stickle 305 m 0.5 km
Stickle Pike 375 m 0.7 km
The Knott 284 m 1.5 km
Raven's Crag 360.8 m 1.6 km
The Pike 370 m 2.6 km