White Side

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

General position for England — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in England · check another location.

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Computed astronomically for 54.541, -3.025. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

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.

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