England · Lake District National Park

White Combe

One classification here — Birkett — belongs to a list OpenFell holds only part of, so it has no list page. See how far the coverage goes.

Height
417 m · 1,368 ft
Grid reference
SD 15454 86284
Coordinates
54.26521, -3.29959
County / area
Cumberland
OS Landranger
96
OS Explorer
OL6S
Summit feature
large windshelter
Key col
SD154863 (413 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 54.265, -3.300. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (417 m)…

Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

windshelter is WOF and Birkett summit although there is higher ground to W.

The recorded summit point is large windshelter. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Record revised
10-Mar-07
Drop measured from
SD154863 · 413 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 White Combe by train

3 National Rail stations sit within 8 km of the summit — close enough to make a car-free day of it. Distances are straight lines, not walking routes.

StationFrom summitSummit lies
Green Road4.2 kmNW of the station
Silecroft4.9 kmNE of the station
Foxfield5.5 kmW 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).

Rated places to eat within 10 km of White Combe
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Baystone Bank Farm CafeRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 51.6 km · SE
The Punch BowlPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 53.3 km · SE
Miners ArmsPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 54.8 km · SW

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

White Combe is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Black Combe (600 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 413 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
Stoupdale Head472 m1.1 km
Black Combe600.2 m2.1 km
Kinmont Buck Barrow535 m4.7 km
Buck Barrow549 m4.8 km
Burn Moor543 m6.2 km
Whitfell573.3 m6.7 km