White Howe (Bannisdale)
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
- 530 m · 1,739 ft
- Prominence
- 73 m
- Grid reference
- NY 52364 04197
- Coordinates
- 54.43096, -2.73583
- County / area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Region
- Lake District E
- OS Landranger
- 90
- OS Explorer
- OL7N
- Summit feature
- trig point
- Key col
- NY520050 (457 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
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Computed astronomically for 54.431, -2.736. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (530 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
ground 80m E at NY 52449 04199 is c.60cm lower; ground 100m NE at NY 52440 04259 is c.25cm lower.
The recorded summit point is trig point. 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
- 08-Jun-09
- Drop measured from
- NY520050 · 457 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maggs Howe | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 5 out of 5 | 6.3 km · W |
| Shap Wells Hotel | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 2 out of 5 | 7.7 km · NE |
| Earthworm Kitchen | Takeaway/sandwich shop | 5 out of 5 | 7.8 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 Howe (Bannisdale) 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, 457 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 |
|---|---|---|
| The Forest | 528 m | 0.7 km |
| Bannisdale Fell - Long Crag | 493 m | 1.3 km |
| Capplebarrow | 512.7 m | 1.7 km |
| Robin Hood | 492 m | 1.8 km |
| High House Bank | 495 m | 2 km |
| Swinklebank Crag | 554 m | 2.4 km |