Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

Barf

469 m

1,539 ftDrop 38 mNY 214 267

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmBarf469Lord's Seat552Broom Fell510.2Whinlatter517Dodd (Skiddaw)502
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmBarf469Lord's Seat552Broom Fell510.2
Looking north, 96 km wide, heights ×24 (method).

Barf is a Lake District fell of 469 m in Cumberland. It rises only 38 m above its key col, 8.1% of its height.

All four of its nearest neighbours are higher, up to Lord's Seat at 552 m. Its key col leads to Lord's Seat, not to its nearest higher summit, Ullister Hill. Its nearest higher summit, Ullister Hill (525 m, 0.9 km south-west), is a listed top not profiled here. The key col is close by, only 0.2 km to the north-west at 431 m. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 89 and 90.

To scale

Summit469 mKey col431 msea level
Key col NY 212 268, 0.2 km north-west of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

469 m213th highest of 242 in England

Drop

38 m1066th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

0.9 km1069th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Lord's Seat1.0 km west
    552 m
  2. 2
    Broom Fell1.9 km west
    510.2 m
  3. 3
    Whinlatter2.8 km south-west
    517 m
  4. 4
    Dodd (Skiddaw)3.0 km east
    502 m
1234Lord's SeatBroom FellWhinlatterDoddN2 km

Lists

Record

Nearest higher
Ullister Hill, 525 m, 0.9 km south-west
Parent Marilyn
Lord's Seat
Region
34A: Lake District N
OS map
89, 90
Summit
Shattered cairn on rock
DoBIH no.
2486
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Barf

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