Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

Broom Fell

510.2 m

1,674 ftDrop 28.9 mNY 195 270

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmBroom Fell510.2Lord's Seat552Barf469Whinlatter517Graystones450.4
sea level1 kmBroom Fell510.2Lord's Seat552Barf469
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×36 (method).

Broom Fell is a Lake District fell of 510.2 m in Cumberland. It rises only 28.9 m above its key col, 5.7% of its height.

Its nearest higher summit, Lord's Seat, is also the hill its key col leads to. The highest point is recorded as no feature: heather, not a cairn. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 89 and 90.

To scale

Summit510.2 mKey col481.4 msea level
Key col NY 2000 2691, 0.5 km east of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

510.2 m197th highest of 242 in England

Drop

28.9 m1087th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

1.0 km1047th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Lord's Seat1.0 km south-east
    552 m
  2. 2
    Barf1.9 km east
    469 m
  3. 3
    Whinlatter2.0 km south
    517 m
  4. 4
    Graystones2.0 km west
    450.4 m
1234Lord's SeatBarfWhinlatterGraystonesN1 km

Lists

Record

Nearest higher
Lord's Seat, 552 m, 1.0 km south-east
Parent Marilyn
Lord's Seat
Region
34A: Lake District N
OS map
89, 90
Summit
No feature: heather
DoBIH no.
2480
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Broom Fell

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