Whiteside · Whiteside West Top

About Whiteside

Whiteside occupies the western end of the ridge linking Grisedale Pike and Hopegill Head, in the north-western Lake District, with Crummock Water below to the south.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Whiteside (Lake District) (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.

Daylight at this summit today

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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 54.586, -3.285. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is a few stones. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit

Record revised

23-Oct-23

Drop measured from

NY171220 · 690 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Whiteside is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Grisedale Pike (790 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 690 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