Summit Register

Lake District fell · Westmorland and Furness, England

Ill Bell

757 m

2,484 ftDrop 124 mNY 436 077

Finder: 94 Wainwrights in Westmorland and Furness

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmIll Bell757Froswick720Yoke707Troutbeck Tongue364Thornthwaite Crag784
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmIll Bell757Froswick720Yoke707
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×34 (method).

Ill Bell is a Lake District fell of 757 m in Westmorland and Furness. Its key col leads to High Street, not to its nearest higher summit, Thornthwaite Crag.

It shares its height of 757 m with Kippure. Its drop of 124 m makes it a Hewitt but is short of the 150 m a Marilyn needs. The database describes the top as a n of two large cairns 30m apart.

To scale

Summit757 mKey col633 msea level
Key col NY 433 088, 1.1 km north of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

757 m64th highest of 242 in England

Drop

124 m931st of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

2.3 km713th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Froswick0.8 km north
    720 m
  2. 2
    Yoke1.0 km south
    707 m
  3. 3
    Troutbeck Tongue1.9 km south-west
    364 m
  4. 4
    Thornthwaite Crag2.3 km north
    784 m
1234FroswickYokeTroutbeck TongueN1 km

Lists

  • 60th highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 102nd highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 80th highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Thornthwaite Crag, 784 m, 2.3 km north
Parent Marilyn
High Street
Region
34C: Lake District E
OS map
90
Summit
N of two large cairns 30m apart
DoBIH no.
2542
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Ill Bell

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