Troutbeck Tongue
3 classifications here — 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
- 364 m · 1,194 ft
- Prominence
- 74 m
- Grid reference
- NY 42240 06427
- Coordinates
- 54.44995, -2.89231
- County / area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Region
- Lake District E
- OS Landranger
- 90
- OS Explorer
- OL7N
- Summit feature
- grassy knoll
- Key col
- NY426078 (290 m)
About Troutbeck Tongue
Troutbeck Tongue is a small fell about five kilometres ENE of Ambleside, one of the 214 hills covered by Alfred Wainwright's Pictorial Guides, which keeps a steady stream of walkers coming to it.
At 364 m it is modest in height and close to a main road, and it is often used as a half-day outing when the higher fells are under cloud. Alongside its Wainwright status it appears in the Birkett, Synge and Fellranger lists.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Troutbeck Tongue (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.
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 54.450, -2.892. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (364 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
knoll is 40m N of cairn (NY 42233 06386) and 2m higher; cairn is Birkett and Wainwright summit.
The recorded summit point is grassy knoll. 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
- NY426078 · 290 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.
Reaching Troutbeck Tongue by train
One National Rail station sits within 8 km of the summit — close enough to make a car-free day of it. Distances are straight lines, not walking routes.
| Station | From summit | Summit lies |
|---|---|---|
| Windermere | 7.9 km | N of the station |
Each station page lists every hill in its reach, long-distance paths from the door and a live-times link — see all stations with hills in reach. Station positions from NaPTAN (OGL v3.0).
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).
| Place | Type | Rating | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kirkstone Pass Inn | Pub/bar/nightclub | 2 out of 5 | 2.7 km · NW |
| Queens Head Hotel | Pub/bar/nightclub | 5 out of 5 | 2.8 km · S |
| The Mortal Man | Pub/bar/nightclub | 5 out of 5 | 3.2 km · S |
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
Troutbeck Tongue is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to High Street (829 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 290 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.