Summit Register

Lake District fell · Westmorland and Furness, England

Birks

624 m

2,047 ftDrop 20.3 mNY 380 143

Finder: 94 Wainwrights in Westmorland and Furness

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmBirks624St Sunday Crag841.2Arnison Crag433Birkhouse Moor717.6Hartsop Above How586.1
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmBirks624St Sunday Crag841.2Arnison Crag433
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×24 (method).

Birks is a Lake District fell of 624 m in Westmorland and Furness. It rises only 20.3 m above its key col, 3.3% of its height.

It sits below St Sunday Crag, only 1.5 km to the south-west and 217.2 m higher. Its key col leads to St Sunday Crag, not to its nearest higher summit, Gavel Pike. Its nearest higher summit, Gavel Pike (784 m, 1.2 km south-west), is a listed top not profiled here. The highest point is recorded as no feature: grass mound, not a cairn.

To scale

Summit624 mKey col603.7 msea level
Key col NY 3754 1405, 0.5 km south-west of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

624 m146th highest of 242 in England

Drop

20.3 m1100th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

1.2 km1003rd most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    St Sunday Crag1.5 km south-west
    841.2 m
  2. 2
    Arnison Crag1.5 km north-east
    433 m
  3. 3
    Birkhouse Moor2.3 km north-west
    717.6 m
  4. 4
    Hartsop Above How2.4 km south
    586.1 m
1234St Sunday CragArnison CragBirkhouse MoorN1 km

Lists

  • 124th highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 181st highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Gavel Pike, 784 m, 1.2 km south-west
Parent Marilyn
St Sunday Crag
Region
34C: Lake District E
OS map
90
Summit
No feature: grass mound
DoBIH no.
2570
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Birks

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