Water Crag
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
- 305 m · 1,001 ft
- Prominence
- 36 m
- Grid reference
- SD 15387 97478
- Coordinates
- 54.36578, -3.30380
- County / area
- Cumberland
- Region
- Lake District S
- OS Landranger
- 96
- OS Explorer
- OL6N
- Summit feature
- outcrop 45m N of cairn
- Key col
- SD158975 (269 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 54.366, -3.304. 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
cairn (SD 15397 97434) is Wainwright Outlying Fell and adjacent boulder is c 30cm lower than the summit outcrop.
The recorded summit point is outcrop 45m N of 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
- 15-Aug-12
- Drop measured from
- SD158975 · 269 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
Water Crag 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, 269 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rough Crag (Birker Moor) | 319 m | 0.8 km |
| Seat How (Birker Moor) | 311 m | 1.2 km |
| White Pike (Birkby Fell) | 442 m | 1.9 km |
| Woodend Height | 489 m | 2.1 km |
| Yoadcastle | 494 m | 2.3 km |
| The Knott (Stainton Fell) | 331 m | 2.5 km |