Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

Maiden Moor

575 m

1,886 ftDrop 10 mNY 236 181

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmMaiden Moor575Cat Bells451High Spy653.1Castle Crag290Hindscarth727
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmMaiden Moor575Cat Bells451High Spy653.1
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×34 (method).

Maiden Moor is a Lake District fell of 575 m in Cumberland. It barely stands apart: the summit is only 10 m above the col joining it to higher ground.

Its key col leads to Dale Head, not to its nearest higher summit, High Spy North Top. Its nearest higher summit, High Spy North Top (634 m, 1.1 km south), is a listed top not profiled here. The key col is close by, only 0.4 km to the south at 565 m. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 89 and 90.

To scale

Summit575 mKey col565 msea level
Key col NY 236 177, 0.4 km south of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

575 m167th highest of 242 in England

Drop

10 m1122nd of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

1.1 km1023rd most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Cat Bells1.8 km north-east
    451 m
  2. 2
    High Spy2.0 km south
    653.1 m
  3. 3
    Castle Crag2.6 km south-east
    290 m
  4. 4
    Hindscarth2.7 km south-west
    727 m
1234Cat BellsHigh SpyCastle CragHindscarthN1 km

Lists

Record

Nearest higher
High Spy North Top, 634 m, 1.1 km south
Parent Marilyn
Dale Head
Region
34B: Lake District C&W
OS map
89, 90
DoBIH no.
2461
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Maiden Moor

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