Summit Register

Lake District fell · Westmorland and Furness, England

Rampsgill Head

792.4 m

2,600 ftDrop 41.1 mNY 443 128

Finder: 94 Wainwrights in Westmorland and Furness

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmRampsgill Head792.4Kidsty Pike781The Knott (High Street)739High Raise (High Street)803.6Rest Dodd696
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmRampsgill Head792.4Kidsty Pike781The Knott (High Street)739
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×34 (method).

Rampsgill Head is a Lake District fell of 792.4 m in Westmorland and Furness. Its key col leads to High Street, not to its nearest higher summit, High Raise (High Street).

It shares its height of 792.4 m with Knockmealdown. Kidsty Pike stands only 0.5 km to the south-east. Its drop of 41.1 m makes it a Hewitt but is short of the 150 m a Marilyn needs. The key col is close by, only 0.4 km to the north-east at 751.3 m. The highest point is recorded as rock, not a cairn.

To scale

Summit792.4 mKey col751.3 msea level
Key col NY 4458 1308, 0.4 km north-east of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

792.4 m41st highest of 242 in England

Drop

41.1 m1060th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

0.8 km1086th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Kidsty Pike0.5 km south-east
    781 m
  2. 2739 m
  3. 3
    High Raise (High Street)0.8 km north-east
    803.6 m
  4. 4
    Rest Dodd1.3 km north-west
    696 m
1234Kidsty PikeThe KnottHigh RaiseRest DoddN1 km

Lists

  • 38th highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 71st highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 56th highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
High Raise (High Street), 803.6 m, 0.8 km north-east
Parent Marilyn
High Street
Region
34C: Lake District E
OS map
90
Summit
Rock
DoBIH no.
2532
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Rampsgill Head

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