England · Lake District National Park

Yew Bank

Height
207 m · 679 ft
Grid reference
SD 26251 90962
Coordinates
54.30892, -3.13501
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
96 97
OS Explorer
OL6N OL6S
Summit feature
large cairn
Key col
SD299910 (190 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

Sunrise
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Daylight
Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 54.309, -3.135. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

rock c 5m N of cairn and heathery mound 25m NE of cairn are of equal height and are the highest points of the fell.

The recorded summit point is large cairn. 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
10-May-05
Drop measured from
SD299910 · 190 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.

Long-distance paths past this hill

One waymarked long-distance route runs within 2.5 km of the summit — useful if you are linking this hill into a longer walk, or want a made path for the approach.

RouteTotal lengthFrom summit
Cumbria Way 119 km 1.4 km

Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

Which hill this one belongs to

Yew Bank is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Kirkby Moor — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 190 m. That hill is outside the lists OpenFell publishes, so it has no page here.

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
Beacon Fell 255 m 1.6 km
Wool Knott 223 m 1.7 km
Tottlebank Height 236 m 2.5 km
Blawith Knott 248 m 2.6 km
nameless (Top o' Selside - Brock Barrow) 221 m 3.7 km
The Knott 284 m 3.9 km