Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

Crag Hill

839.2 m

Eel Crag

2,753 ftDrop 116.7 mNY 192 203

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmCrag Hill839.2Sail773Wandope773.9Ard Crags581Knott Rigg556
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmCrag Hill839.2Sail773Wandope773.9
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×24 (method).

Crag Hill is a Lake District fell of 839.2 m in Cumberland. It overtops all four of its nearest neighbours; the tallest of them, Wandope, reaches 773.9 m.

Sail stands only 0.5 km to the east. Its drop of 116.7 m makes it a Hewitt but is short of the 150 m a Marilyn needs. It is 203.9 m above the average height of the 114 register hills in Cumberland. Its nearest higher summit, Grasmoor, is also the hill its key col leads to. Its other name is Eel Crag. The summit is marked by a trig point. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 89 and 90.

To scale

Summit839.2 mKey col722.5 msea level
Key col NY 1860 2015, 0.6 km west of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

839.2 m25th highest of 242 in England

Drop

116.7 m944th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

1.8 km843rd most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Sail0.5 km east
    773 m
  2. 2
    Wandope0.7 km south-west
    773.9 m
  3. 3
    Ard Crags1.5 km east
    581 m
  4. 4
    Knott Rigg1.5 km south
    556 m
1234SailWandopeArd CragsKnott RiggN1 km

Lists

  • 24th highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 44th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 37th highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Grasmoor, 851.6 m, 1.8 km west
Parent Marilyn
Grasmoor
Region
34B: Lake District C&W
OS map
89, 90
Summit
No feature 35m S of trig point
DoBIH no.
2374
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Crag Hill

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