Summit Register

Lake District fell · Westmorland and Furness, England

Red Screes

778.8 m

2,555 ftDrop 260.9 mNY 396 087

Finder: 94 Wainwrights in Westmorland and Furness

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmRed Screes778.8Middle Dodd654Little Hart Crag637High Hartsop Dodd519High Pike (Scandale)657
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmRed Screes778.8Middle Dodd654Little Hart Crag637
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×24 (method).

Red Screes is a Lake District fell of 778.8 m in Westmorland and Furness. It counts towards four lists: Wainwrights, Hewitts, Nuttalls and Marilyns.

It overtops all four of its nearest neighbours; the tallest of them, High Pike (Scandale), reaches 657 m. It is one of the 39 Wainwrights that are also Marilyns. On the Wainwrights height ladder it sits between Harter Fell (Mardale) (779 m) and Dow Crag (778 m). The summit is marked by a trig point, inside a shelter.

To scale

Summit778.8 mKey col517.9 msea level
Key col NY 3879 0956, 1.2 km north-west of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

778.8 m52nd highest of 242 in England

Drop

260.9 m508th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

2.8 km611th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Middle Dodd0.8 km north
    654 m
  2. 2
    Little Hart Crag1.6 km north-west
    637 m
  3. 3
    High Hartsop Dodd2.0 km north
    519 m
  4. 4657 m
1234Middle DoddLittle Hart CragHigh PikeN1 km

Lists

  • 48th highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 85th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 68th highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here
  • 454th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Dove Crag, 792 m, 2.8 km north-west
Region
34C: Lake District E
OS map
90
Summit
Rock by shelter 15m SE of trig point
DoBIH no.
2538
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Red Screes

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