Yewbarrow North Top · Stirrup Crag

About Yewbarrow North Top

Stirrup Crag, listed as Yewbarrow North Top, is the second summit of Yewbarrow, standing 616 m and about 0.8 km north of the 628 m main top. Both Hewitt and Nuttall treat it as a separate summit in its own right.

Yewbarrow lies immediately north of the head of Wast Water, and its outline is often likened to an upturned boat hull or a barrow, which along with the yew trees once common on the fell gives the name. The fell forms the left-hand side of the well-known view of Wast Water and Great Gable.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Yewbarrow (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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Computed astronomically for 54.471, -3.273. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is rock. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level/Leica RX1250

Record revised

06-Feb-22

Drop measured from

NY 1752 0881 · 583.6 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

Yewbarrow North Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Pillar (892 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 584 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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