Summit Register

Lake District fell · Westmorland and Furness, England

Bannerdale Crags

684.1 m

2,244 ftDrop 37 mNY 335 290

Finder: 94 Wainwrights in Westmorland and Furness

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmBannerdale Crags684.1Bowscale Fell702Blencathra – Hallsfell Top867.8Souther Fell522Mungrisdale Common631.8
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmBannerdale Crags684.1Bowscale Fell702Blencathra – Hallsfell Top867.8
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×24 (method).

Bannerdale Crags is a Lake District fell of 684.1 m in Westmorland and Furness. It rises only 37 m above its key col, 5.4% of its height.

Its key col leads to Blencathra – Hallsfell Top, not to its nearest higher summit, Atkinson Pike. Its nearest higher summit, Atkinson Pike (845.3 m, 1.3 km south-west), is a listed top not profiled here. Its drop of 37 m makes it a Hewitt but is short of the 150 m a Marilyn needs. The highest point is recorded as rock 3m ne of pile of stones, not a cairn.

To scale

Summit684.1 mKey col647 msea level
Key col NY 331 296, 0.7 km north-west of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

684.1 m110th highest of 242 in England

Drop

37 m1068th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

1.3 km977th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Bowscale Fell1.5 km north
    702 m
  2. 2867.8 m
  3. 3
    Souther Fell1.9 km east
    522 m
  4. 4
    Mungrisdale Common2.4 km west
    631.8 m
1234Bowscale FellBlencathraSouther FellN1 km

Lists

  • 97th highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 179th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 138th highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Atkinson Pike, 845.3 m, 1.3 km south-west
Region
34A: Lake District N
OS map
90
Summit
Rock 3m NE of pile of stones
DoBIH no.
2332
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Bannerdale Crags

Data: DoBIH v18.6, CC BY 4.0 (method). What prominence (drop) means, with real figures