White Side
4 classifications here — Simm, Birkett, Synge and Fellranger — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.
- Height
- 863.2 m · 2,832 ft
- Prominence
- 43.1 m
- Grid reference
- NY 33780 16664
- Coordinates
- 54.54090, -3.02506
- County / area
- Cumberland/Westmorland and Furness
- Region
- Lake District E
- OS Landranger
- 90
- OS Explorer
- OL5S
- Summit feature
- windshelter
- Key col
- NY 3395 1688 (820.1 m)
About White Side
White Side sits on the Helvellyn range in the Eastern Fells, on the ground between Thirlmere to the west and the Glenridding valley to the east.
It is a middle link in that chain rather than a high point of it: Raise rises to the north and Helvellyn Lower Man to the south, and both are higher than White Side's 863 m.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on White Side (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.
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 54.541, -3.025. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (863 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
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).
| Place | Type | Rating | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Lodge in the Vale | Hotel/bed & breakfast/guest house | 5 out of 5 | 3.1 km · NW |
| Travellers Rest | Pub/bar/nightclub | 4 out of 5 | 4.3 km · E |
| The Tea Garden | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 5 out of 5 | 4.3 km · NW |
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 Side is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Helvellyn (950 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 820 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Raise | 882.7 m | 0.9 km |
| Helvellyn Lower Man | 924.5 m | 1.1 km |
| Catstye Cam | 889.6 m | 1.3 km |
| Helvellyn | 949.8 m | 1.6 km |
| Striding Edge | 862.9 m | 2.2 km |
| Stybarrow Dodd | 843.7 m | 2.3 km |