Summit Register

Lake District fell · Westmorland and Furness, England

Great Carrs

785 m

2,575 ftDrop 23 mNY 270 009

Finder: 94 Wainwrights in Westmorland and Furness

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmGreat Carrs785Swirl How802.4Grey Friar773Wetherlam763Brim Fell795.9
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmGreat Carrs785Swirl How802.4Grey Friar773
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×24 (method).

Great Carrs is a Lake District fell of 785 m in Westmorland and Furness. Higher ground is only 0.4 km away: Swirl How (802.4 m) to the south-east.

It rises only 23 m above its key col, 2.9% of its height. Its key col leads to The Old Man of Coniston, not to its nearest higher summit, Swirl How. It shares its height of 785 m with Beinn na Caillich (Highland, NG795066), Beinn an Oir and Allen Crags. On the Wainwrights height ladder it sits between Watson's Dodd (789 m) and Allen Crags (785 m). Swirl How stands only 0.4 km to the south-east. The key col is close by, only 0.3 km to the south at 762 m. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 89 and 90.

To scale

Summit785 mKey col762 msea level
Key col NY 270 006, 0.3 km south of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

785 m46th highest of 242 in England

Drop

23 m1093rd of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

0.4 km1128th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Swirl How0.4 km south-east
    802.4 m
  2. 2
    Grey Friar1.2 km south-west
    773 m
  3. 3
    Wetherlam1.7 km east
    763 m
  4. 4
    Brim Fell2.4 km south
    795.9 m
1234Swirl HowGrey FriarWetherlamBrim FellN1 km

Lists

  • 42nd highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 60th highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Swirl How, 802.4 m, 0.4 km south-east
Region
34D: Lake District S
OS map
89, 90
Summit
Cairn on rock
DoBIH no.
2637
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Great Carrs

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