Top o' Selside (Wainwright summit)

About Top o' Selside (Wainwright summit)

Top o'Selside is the high point of the block of hills lying between Coniston Water and Windermere, a group that also takes in the Wainwright of Black Fell together with Black Brows and Rusland Heights. Rather than sitting centrally, it occupies the south-western corner of that ground, just beyond the plantations of Grizedale Forest and roughly two-thirds of a mile back from the eastern shore of Coniston Water.

The distance from any higher ground gives it enough relative height to qualify as a Marilyn, and it is also an Outlying Fell and a Birkett.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Top o'Selside (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

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 54.318, -3.065. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

03-Jun-24

Drop measured from

SD308918 · 326.5 m

Classification history: Hill 2667 Top o' Selside is the East top and is the Marilyn and Hump.

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).

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

Top o' Selside (Wainwright summit) is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Top o' Selside — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 327 m. That hill is outside the lists OpenFell publishes, so it has no page here.

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