Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

Eagle Crag

522.8 m

1,715 ftDrop 29.2 mNY 275 121

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmEagle Crag522.8Sergeant's Crag571Ullscarf723Rosthwaite Fell – Bessyboot551Great Crag (Stonethwaite)449
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmEagle Crag522.8Sergeant's Crag571Ullscarf723
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×34 (method).

Eagle Crag is a Lake District fell of 522.8 m in Cumberland. It rises only 29.2 m above its key col, 5.6% of its height.

Its key col leads to High Raise, not to its nearest higher summit, Sergeant's Crag. On the Wainwrights height ladder it sits between Crag Fell (523 m) and Souther Fell (522 m). The key col is close by, only 0.3 km to the south at 493.6 m. The highest point is recorded as a few stones on sloping rock slab, not a cairn. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 89 and 90.

To scale

Summit522.8 mKey col493.6 msea level
Key col NY 2762 1179, 0.3 km south of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

522.8 m190th highest of 242 in England

Drop

29.2 m1085th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

0.7 km1099th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Sergeant's Crag0.7 km south
    571 m
  2. 2
    Ullscarf1.6 km east
    723 m
  3. 3551 m
  4. 4449 m
1234Sergeant's CragUllscarfRosthwaite FellGreat CragN1 km

Lists

Record

Nearest higher
Sergeant's Crag, 571 m, 0.7 km south
Parent Marilyn
High Raise
Region
34B: Lake District C&W
OS map
89, 90
Summit
A few stones on sloping rock slab
DoBIH no.
2475
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Eagle Crag

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