Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

Brandreth

715 m

2,346 ftDrop 60 mNY 214 119

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmBrandreth715Grey Knotts697Base Brown646Green Gable799.9Great Gable898.8
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmBrandreth715Grey Knotts697Base Brown646
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×24 (method).

Brandreth is a Lake District fell of 715 m in Cumberland. Its key col leads to Great Gable, not to its nearest higher summit, Green Gable.

It shares its height of 715 m with Beinn Mheadhonach (Argyll and Bute) and Lonscale Fell. On the Wainwrights height ladder it sits between Birkhouse Moor (717.6 m) and Lonscale Fell (715 m). Its drop of 60 m makes it a Hewitt but is short of the 150 m a Marilyn needs. The key col is close by, only 0.4 km to the south at 655 m. The highest point is recorded as rock, not a cairn. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 89 and 90.

To scale

Summit715 mKey col655 msea level
Key col NY 215 115, 0.4 km south of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

715 m87th highest of 242 in England

Drop

60 m1031st of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

1.2 km1003rd most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Grey Knotts0.7 km north
    697 m
  2. 2
    Base Brown1.2 km east
    646 m
  3. 3
    Green Gable1.2 km south
    799.9 m
  4. 4
    Great Gable1.6 km south
    898.8 m
1234Grey KnottsBase BrownGreen GableGreat GableN1 km

Lists

  • 79th highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 142nd highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 112th highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Green Gable, 799.9 m, 1.2 km south
Parent Marilyn
Great Gable
Region
34B: Lake District C&W
OS map
89, 90
Summit
Rock
DoBIH no.
2416
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Brandreth

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