Summit Register

Lake District fell · Westmorland and Furness, England

Dow Crag

778 m

2,552 ftDrop 129 mSD 262 977

Finder: 94 Wainwrights in Westmorland and Furness

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmDow Crag778The Old Man of Coniston802.4Brim Fell795.9Grey Friar773Swirl How802.4
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmDow Crag778The Old Man of Coniston802.4Brim Fell795.9
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×34 (method).

Dow Crag is a Lake District fell of 778 m in Westmorland and Furness. It shares its height of 778 m with Mount Battock.

Its drop of 129 m makes it a Hewitt but is short of the 150 m a Marilyn needs. Its nearest higher summit, The Old Man of Coniston, is also the hill its key col leads to. The highest point is recorded as outcrop, not a cairn. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 96 and 97.

To scale

Summit778 mKey col649 msea level
Key col SD 266 982, 0.6 km north-east of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

778 m53rd highest of 242 in England

Drop

129 m922nd of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

1.0 km1047th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1802.4 m
  2. 2
    Brim Fell1.1 km north-east
    795.9 m
  3. 3
    Grey Friar2.6 km north
    773 m
  4. 4
    Swirl How2.9 km north
    802.4 m
1234Brim FellGrey FriarSwirl HowN1 km

Lists

  • 49th highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 86th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 69th highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
The Old Man of Coniston, 802.4 m, 1.0 km east
Region
34D: Lake District S
OS map
96, 97
Summit
Outcrop
DoBIH no.
2638
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Dow Crag

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