Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

Kirk Fell

802 m

2,631 ftDrop 183 mNY 194 104

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmKirk Fell802Great Gable898.8Green Gable799.9Brandreth715Haystacks (Buttermere)597
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmKirk Fell802Great Gable898.8Green Gable799.9
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×24 (method).

Kirk Fell is a Lake District fell of 802 m in Cumberland. It counts towards four lists: Wainwrights, Hewitts, Nuttalls and Marilyns.

It is one of the 39 Wainwrights that are also Marilyns. It shares its height of 802 m with Beinn Bhreac-liath. The highest point is recorded as large windshelter, not a cairn. The database describes the top as a large windshelter. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 89 and 90.

To scale

Summit802 mKey col619.5 msea level
Key col NY 2052 1065, 1.1 km east of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

802 m37th highest of 242 in England

Drop

183 m739th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

1.6 km893rd most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Great Gable1.6 km east
    898.8 m
  2. 2
    Green Gable2.0 km east
    799.9 m
  3. 3
    Brandreth2.4 km north-east
    715 m
  4. 4597 m
1234Great GableGreen GableBrandrethHaystacksN1 km

Lists

  • 34th highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 65th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 51st highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here
  • 405th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Great Gable, 898.8 m, 1.6 km east
Region
34B: Lake District C&W
OS map
89, 90
Summit
Large windshelter
DoBIH no.
2383
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Kirk Fell

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