Wether Hill

About Wether Hill

Wether Hill sits on the main north-south spine of the Far Eastern Fells, between Loadpot Hill and High Raise, with Martindale on one side and Haweswater on the other. Smaller ridges run off east and north-west.

At 673 metres it is a Wainwright, Birkett, Synge and Fellranger fell. It is a different hill from the Wether Hill in north Northumberland.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Wether Hill (Lake District) (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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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 54.543, -2.842. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is no feature: rough grass. 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

31-Oct-22

Drop measured from

NY 4560 1657 · 668.2 m

Classification history: Replaced as Nuttall by hill 2927 in March 2012.

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

Wether Hill 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, 668 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