Summit Register

Hewitt · North Yorkshire, England

Great Shunner Fell

715.7 m

2,348 ftDrop 295.3 mSD 848 972

Finder: 9 Hewitts in North Yorkshire

sea level2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmGreat Shunner Fell715.7Nine Standards Rigg661.9Rogan's Seat671.6Wild Boar Fell708.4Great Knoutberry Hill672.5
sea level2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmGreat Shunner Fell715.7Nine Standards Rigg661.9Rogan's Seat671.6
Looking north, 3425 km wide, heights ×1319 (method).

Great Shunner Fell is a Hewitt of 715.7 m in North Yorkshire. The key col lies 15.7 km away to the north, at 420.4 m.

Its closest neighbour in this register, Nine Standards Rigg, is 9.1 km away. It overtops all four of its nearest neighbours; the tallest of them, Wild Boar Fell, reaches 708.4 m. Of the register hills in North Yorkshire, only Ingleborough stands higher. The highest point is recorded as windshelter, not a cairn. The database describes the top as a windshelter.

To scale

Summit715.7 mKey col420.4 msea level
Key col NY 8813 1255, 15.7 km north of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

715.7 m86th highest of 242 in England

Drop

295.3 m443rd of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

19.2 km67th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Nine Standards Rigg9.1 km north
    661.9 m
  2. 2
    Rogan's Seat9.1 km north-east
    671.6 m
  3. 3
    Wild Boar Fell9.2 km west
    708.4 m
  4. 4
    Great Knoutberry Hill11.8 km south-west
    672.5 m
1234Rogan's SeatWild Boar FellN5 km

Lists

  • 140th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 110th highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here
  • 592nd highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Whernside, 736.6 m, 19.2 km south-west
Region
35A: North Pennines
OS map
98
Summit
Windshelter
DoBIH no.
2716
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Great Shunner Fell

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