England · Lake District National Park

Whatshaw Common

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
490 m · 1,608 ft
Grid reference
NY 54195 06194
Coordinates
54.44908, -2.70792
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
90
OS Explorer
OL7N
Summit feature
no feature: grass
Key col
NY534065 (419 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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Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 54.449, -2.708. 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

Surveyor's note

summit higher than top 750m E at NY 54769 06260 (hill 8008) with 484m spot height.

The recorded summit point is no feature: 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
29-Jul-12
Drop measured from
NY534065 · 419 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

Whatshaw Common is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Tarn Crag (Sleddale) (664 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 419 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

PeakHeightDistance
Robin Hood 492 m 1.2 km
High House Bank 495 m 1.4 km
Little Yarlside 518 m 1.5 km
Great Yarlside 591 m 2.2 km
Wasdale Pike 565 m 2.4 km
Lord's Seat (Crookdale) 524 m 2.4 km