Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

High Spy

653.1 m

2,143 ftDrop 147.8 mNY 234 162

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmHigh Spy653.1Dale Head754Castle Crag290Hindscarth727Maiden Moor575
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmHigh Spy653.1Dale Head754Castle Crag290
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×34 (method).

High Spy is a Lake District fell of 653.1 m in Cumberland. It sits below Dale Head, only 1.4 km to the south-west and 100.9 m higher.

It shares its height of 653.1 m with Beinn na Cille. On the Wainwrights height ladder it sits between Harter Fell (Eskdale) (653.2 m) and Great Sca Fell (651 m). Its drop of 147.8 m makes it a Hewitt but is short of the 150 m a Marilyn needs. Its nearest higher summit, Dale Head, is also the hill its key col leads to. The database describes the top as a large cairn. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 89 and 90.

To scale

Summit653.1 mKey col505.3 msea level
Key col NY 2330 1537, 0.8 km south of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

653.1 m133rd highest of 242 in England

Drop

147.8 m891st of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

1.4 km959th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Dale Head1.4 km south-west
    754 m
  2. 2
    Castle Crag1.5 km east
    290 m
  3. 3
    Hindscarth1.9 km west
    727 m
  4. 4
    Maiden Moor2.0 km north
    575 m
1234Dale HeadCastle CragHindscarthMaiden MoorN1 km

Lists

  • 113th highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 229th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 167th highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Dale Head, 754 m, 1.4 km south-west
Parent Marilyn
Dale Head
Region
34B: Lake District C&W
OS map
89, 90
Summit
Large cairn
DoBIH no.
2436
Map of Britain and Ireland marking High Spy

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