Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

Hopegill Head

769.6 m

2,525 ftDrop 97.2 mNY 185 221

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmHopegill Head769.6Grisedale Pike790.3Whiteside707Crag Hill839.2Grasmoor851.6
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmHopegill Head769.6Grisedale Pike790.3Whiteside707
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×24 (method).

Hopegill Head is a Lake District fell of 769.6 m in Cumberland. It shares its height of 769.6 m with Carn Dearg (Highland, NN357948).

Its drop of 97.2 m makes it a Hewitt but is short of the 150 m a Marilyn needs. Its nearest higher summit, Grisedale Pike, is also the hill its key col leads to. The highest point is recorded as rock, not a cairn. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 89 and 90.

To scale

Summit769.6 mKey col672.4 msea level
Key col NY 1906 2198, 0.6 km east of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

769.6 m57th highest of 242 in England

Drop

97.2 m974th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

1.3 km977th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Grisedale Pike1.3 km east
    790.3 m
  2. 2
    Whiteside1.5 km west
    707 m
  3. 3
    Crag Hill2.0 km south
    839.2 m
  4. 4
    Grasmoor2.1 km south-west
    851.6 m
1234Grisedale PikeWhitesideCrag HillGrasmoorN1 km

Lists

  • 53rd highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 94th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 74th highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Grisedale Pike, 790.3 m, 1.3 km east
Parent Marilyn
Grisedale Pike
Region
34B: Lake District C&W
OS map
89, 90
Summit
Rock
DoBIH no.
2395
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Hopegill Head

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