Yoke
4 classifications here — Simm, Birkett, Synge and Fellranger — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.
- Height
- 707 m · 2,320 ft
- Prominence
- 38.8 m
- Grid reference
- NY 43773 06739
- Coordinates
- 54.45293, -2.86873
- County / area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Region
- Lake District E
- OS Landranger
- 90
- OS Explorer
- OL7N
- Summit feature
- small cairn on outcrop
- Key col
- NY 4365 0727 (668.2 m)
About Yoke
Yoke closes off the southern end of the long ridge that reaches down from High Street, making it the first or last summit on that spine depending on the direction of travel. It sits in the far eastern sector of the Lake District National Park, roughly six and a half kilometres east-north-east of Ambleside.
The name is thought to come from the Old English geoc, a relative of the German joch, meaning a mountain ridge — an apt label for a fell defined by the arm of high ground it terminates.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Yoke (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
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 54.453, -2.869. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (707 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
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).
| Place | Type | Rating | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maggs Howe | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 5 out of 5 | 3.5 km · SE |
| Queens Head Hotel | Pub/bar/nightclub | 5 out of 5 | 3.8 km · SW |
| Kirkstone Pass Inn | Pub/bar/nightclub | 2 out of 5 | 3.9 km · W |
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
Yoke is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to High Street (829 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 668 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Ill Bell | 757 m | 1 km |
| Troutbeck Tongue | 364 m | 1.6 km |
| Froswick | 720 m | 1.8 km |
| Sallows | 516 m | 2.8 km |
| Kentmere Pike | 730.5 m | 3 km |
| Thornthwaite Crag | 784 m | 3.4 km |