Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

Great Gable

898.8 m

2,949 ftDrop 425.5 mNY 211 103

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmGreat Gable898.8Green Gable799.9Kirk Fell802Brandreth715Seathwaite Fell (Wainwright summit)601.1
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmGreat Gable898.8Green Gable799.9Kirk Fell802
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×24 (method).

Great Gable is a Lake District fell of 898.8 m in Cumberland. Only six of the register's England hills are higher.

Its drop is the 6th greatest among the Wainwrights, behind Scafell Pike at the top. It counts towards four lists: Wainwrights, Hewitts, Nuttalls and Marilyns. It overtops all four of its nearest neighbours; the tallest of them, Kirk Fell, reaches 802 m. It is one of the 39 Wainwrights that are also Marilyns. Green Gable stands only 0.5 km to the north-east. It is 263.5 m above the average height of the 114 register hills in Cumberland. The highest point is recorded as rock, not a cairn. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 89 and 90.

To scale

Summit898.8 mKey col473.3 mdrop 425.5 msea level
Key col NY 2194 0948, 1.2 km south-east of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

898.8 m7th highest of 242 in England

Drop

425.5 m263rd of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

2.5 km672nd most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Green Gable0.5 km north-east
    799.9 m
  2. 2
    Kirk Fell1.6 km west
    802 m
  3. 3
    Brandreth1.6 km north
    715 m
  4. 4601.1 m
1234Green GableKirk FellBrandrethN1 km

Lists

  • 7th highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 19th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 14th highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here
  • 243rd highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Great End, 909.5 m, 2.5 km south-east
Region
34B: Lake District C&W
OS map
89, 90
Summit
Rock
DoBIH no.
2367
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Great Gable

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