Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

Caw Fell

697 m

2,287 ftDrop 22 mNY 132 109

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmCaw Fell697Haycock797Steeple819Seatallan693Scoat Fell841
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmCaw Fell697Haycock797Steeple819
Looking north, 87 km wide, heights ×24 (method).

Caw Fell is a Lake District fell of 697 m in Cumberland. It rises only 22 m above its key col, 3.2% of its height.

It sits below Haycock, only 1.3 km to the east and 100 m higher. Its key col leads to Pillar, not to its nearest higher summit, Little Gowder Crag. It shares its height of 697 m with Grey Knotts and Bencollaghduff. On the Wainwrights height ladder it sits between Grey Knotts (697 m) and Rest Dodd (696 m). Its nearest higher summit, Little Gowder Crag (734.5 m, 0.8 km east), is a listed top not profiled here. The key col is close by, only 0.2 km to the north-east at 675 m.

To scale

Summit697 mKey col675 msea level
Key col NY 134 110, 0.2 km north-east of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

697 m102nd highest of 242 in England

Drop

22 m1096th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

0.8 km1086th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Haycock1.3 km east
    797 m
  2. 2
    Steeple2.6 km east
    819 m
  3. 3
    Seatallan2.7 km south
    693 m
  4. 4
    Scoat Fell2.8 km east
    841 m
1234HaycockSteepleSeatallanN1 km

Lists

  • 92nd highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 130th highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Little Gowder Crag, 734.5 m, 0.8 km east
Parent Marilyn
Pillar
Region
34B: Lake District C&W
OS map
89
Summit
Rock 13m E of cairn
DoBIH no.
2425
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Caw Fell

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