Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

High Seat

609 m

1,998 ftDrop 139.2 mNY 287 180

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmHigh Seat609Bleaberry Fell590High Tove515Raven Crag461Armboth Fell475
sea level2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmHigh Seat609Bleaberry Fell590High Tove515
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×35 (method).

High Seat is a Lake District fell of 609 m in Cumberland. It overtops all four of its nearest neighbours; the tallest of them, Bleaberry Fell, reaches 590 m.

Its key col leads to High Raise, not to its nearest higher summit, Brown Crag. It shares its height of 609 m with Ben Aslak and Mynydd Troed. On the Wainwrights height ladder it sits between Heron Pike (Rydal) (612 m) and Illgill Head (608.8 m). Its nearest higher summit, Brown Crag (610 m, 4.1 km east), is a listed top not profiled here. The summit is marked by a trig point. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 89 and 90.

To scale

Summit609 mKey col469.8 msea level
Key col NY 2884 1561, 2.4 km south of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

609 m154th highest of 242 in England

Drop

139.2 m903rd of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

4.1 km421st most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Bleaberry Fell1.5 km north
    590 m
  2. 2
    High Tove1.5 km south
    515 m
  3. 3
    Raven Crag1.8 km north-east
    461 m
  4. 4
    Armboth Fell2.5 km south
    475 m
1234Bleaberry FellHigh ToveRaven CragArmboth FellN1 km

Lists

Record

Nearest higher
Brown Crag, 610 m, 4.1 km east
Parent Marilyn
High Raise
Region
34B: Lake District C&W
OS map
89, 90
Summit
Rock 3m W of trig point
DoBIH no.
2455
Map of Britain and Ireland marking High Seat

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