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
- Prominence
- 73 m
- Grid reference
- SD 18642 93410
- Coordinates
- 54.32976, -3.25260
- County / area
- Cumberland
- Region
- Lake District S
- 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
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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
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.
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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Hesk Fell | 478.1 m | 1.6 km |
| Stickle Pike | 375 m | 2.6 km |
| Tarn Hill | 313 m | 2.6 km |
| Dunnerdale Fells | 280 m | 2.6 km |
| Whitfell | 573.3 m | 2.8 km |
| Great Stickle | 305 m | 3.1 km |