England · Lake District National Park

The Pike

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
370 m · 1,214 ft
Grid reference
SD 18642 93410
Coordinates
54.32976, -3.25260
County / area
Cumberland
OS Landranger
96
OS Explorer
OL6N
Summit feature
outcrop in wall
Key col
SD183939 (297 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 54.330, -3.253. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (370 m)…

Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

outcrop 8m SW of wall at SD 18637 93404 is c 15cm lower (Wainwright's cairn at this position no longer exists).

The recorded summit point is outcrop in wall. 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
15-Aug-12
Drop measured from
SD183939 · 297 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.

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Rated places to eat within 10 km of The Pike
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Blacksmiths ArmsPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 54.6 km · SE
The Newfield InnPub/bar/nightclub3 out of 54.7 km · NE
The Square CafeRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 56.3 km · SE

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

Which hill this one belongs to

The Pike is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Whitfell (573 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 297 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
Hesk Fell478.1 m1.6 km
Stickle Pike375 m2.6 km
Tarn Hill313 m2.6 km
Dunnerdale Fells280 m2.6 km
Whitfell573.3 m2.8 km
Great Stickle305 m3.1 km