England · Lake District National Park

Whiteside Pike

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
397 m · 1,302 ft
Grid reference
NY 52073 01513
Coordinates
54.40682, -2.73988
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
90
OS Explorer
OL7N
Summit feature
ground 1.5m E of cairn
Key col
NY517018 (350 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 54.407, -2.740. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (397 m)…

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

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is ground 1.5m E of cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
obvious summit
Record revised
10-May-05
Drop measured from
NY517018 · 350 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 Whiteside Pike by train

2 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
Burneside6 kmN of the station
Staveley6.2 kmNE 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 Whiteside Pike
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Earthworm KitchenTakeaway/sandwich shop5 out of 55.8 km · SW
Nook KitchenRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 55.9 km · SW
Wilfs Cafe & Outside CateringRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 55.9 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

Whiteside Pike 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, 350 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
Todd Fell401 m1 km
Lamb Pasture367 m1.5 km
Ulgraves333 m2.1 km
The Forest528 m2.2 km
Capplebarrow512.7 m2.4 km
White Howe (Bannisdale)530 m2.7 km