Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

High Crag (Buttermere)

744.8 m

2,444 ftDrop 34.8 mNY 180 139

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmHigh Crag (Buttermere)744.8High Stile806.5High Stile806.2Haystacks (Buttermere)597Pillar892.4
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmHigh Crag (Buttermere)744.8High Stile806.5High Stile806.2
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×24 (method).

High Crag (Buttermere) is a Lake District fell of 744.8 m in Cumberland. It rises only 34.8 m above its key col, 4.7% of its height.

Its drop of 34.8 m makes it a Hewitt but is short of the 150 m a Marilyn needs. Its nearest higher summit, High Stile, is also the hill its key col leads to. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 89 and 90.

To scale

Summit744.8 mKey col710 msea level
Key col NY 1734 1429, 0.8 km north-west of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

744.8 m70th highest of 242 in England

Drop

34.8 m1074th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

1.3 km977th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    High Stile1.3 km north-west
    806.5 m
  2. 2
    High Stile1.5 km north-west
    806.2 m
  3. 3
    Haystacks (Buttermere)1.5 km south-east
    597 m
  4. 4
    Pillar2.1 km south-west
    892.4 m
1234High StileHigh StileHaystacksPillarN1 km

Lists

  • 65th highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 115th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 90th highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
High Stile, 806.5 m, 1.3 km north-west
Parent Marilyn
High Stile
Region
34B: Lake District C&W
OS map
89, 90
Summit
Southerly of two cairns
DoBIH no.
2401
Map of Britain and Ireland marking High Crag (Buttermere)

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