Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

Hen Comb

506.2 m

1,661 ftDrop 138.8 mNY 132 181

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmHen Comb506.2Gavel Fell524.3Mellbreak511.1Great Borne616Starling Dodd633
sea level2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmHen Comb506.2Gavel Fell524.3Mellbreak511.1
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×25 (method).

Hen Comb is a Lake District fell of 506.2 m in Cumberland. All four of its nearest neighbours are higher, up to Starling Dodd at 633 m.

Its key col leads to Blake Fell, not to its nearest higher summit, Gavel Fell.

To scale

Summit506.2 mKey col367.4 msea level
Key col NY 1282 1758, 0.6 km south-west of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

506.2 m200th highest of 242 in England

Drop

138.8 m906th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

1.6 km893rd most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Gavel Fell1.6 km west
    524.3 m
  2. 2
    Mellbreak1.7 km east
    511.1 m
  3. 3
    Great Borne1.9 km south-west
    616 m
  4. 4
    Starling Dodd2.6 km south-east
    633 m
1234Gavel FellMellbreakGreat BorneStarling DoddN1 km

Lists

Record

Nearest higher
Gavel Fell, 524.3 m, 1.6 km west
Parent Marilyn
Blake Fell
Region
34B: Lake District C&W
OS map
89
Summit
Cairn
DoBIH no.
2481
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Hen Comb

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