Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

Green Gable

799.9 m

2,624 ftDrop 48.8 mNY 214 107

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmGreen Gable799.9Great Gable898.8Brandreth715Base Brown646Seathwaite Fell (Wainwright summit)601.1
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmGreen Gable799.9Great Gable898.8Brandreth715
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×24 (method).

Green Gable is a Lake District fell of 799.9 m in Cumberland. Great Gable stands only 0.5 km to the south-west.

Its drop of 48.8 m makes it a Hewitt but is short of the 150 m a Marilyn needs. The key col is close by, only 0.2 km to the south at 751.1 m. Its nearest higher summit, Great Gable, is also the hill its key col leads to. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 89 and 90.

To scale

Summit799.9 mKey col751.1 msea level
Key col NY 2142 1054, 0.2 km south of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

799.9 m38th highest of 242 in England

Drop

48.8 m1050th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

0.5 km1119th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Great Gable0.5 km south-west
    898.8 m
  2. 2
    Brandreth1.2 km north
    715 m
  3. 3
    Base Brown1.3 km north-east
    646 m
  4. 4601.1 m
1234Great GableBrandrethBase BrownSeathwaite FellN1 km

Lists

  • 35th highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 67th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 52nd highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Great Gable, 898.8 m, 0.5 km south-west
Parent Marilyn
Great Gable
Region
34B: Lake District C&W
OS map
89, 90
Summit
Cairn
DoBIH no.
2384
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Green Gable

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