Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

Scafell Pike

978.1 m

3,209 ftDrop 912.2 mNY 215 072

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmScafell Pike978.1Scafell963.9Lingmell807Great End909.5Esk Pike885
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmScafell Pike978.1Scafell963.9Lingmell807
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×23 (method).

Scafell Pike is a Lake District fell of 978.1 m in Cumberland. It is the highest summit in England.

Of all the Wainwrights, it is the highest. Nothing higher stands within 152.3 km; the nearest higher summit is Carnedd Llewelyn (1,061.8 m), to the south. Its drop of 912.2 m is the 13th greatest of the 1,140 hills here. In the database's Lake District C&W region it is the highest of 101 register hills, above Scafell and 99 others. The key col lies 178.4 km away to the south, at 65.9 m. It counts towards six lists: Wainwrights, Hewitts, Nuttalls, Furths, Marilyns and county tops. It overtops all four of its nearest neighbours; the tallest of them, Scafell, reaches 963.9 m. It is one of the 39 Wainwrights that are also Marilyns. The higher hill nearest to it, Carnedd Llewelyn, is a 3,000 ft mountain, 152.3 km to the south.

To scale

Summit978.1 mKey col65.9 mdrop 912.2 msea level
Key col SJ 6368 3387, 178.4 km south of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

978.1 mHighest of 242 in England

Drop

912.2 m13th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

152.3 km5th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Scafell1.1 km south-west
    963.9 m
  2. 2
    Lingmell1.1 km north-west
    807 m
  3. 3
    Great End1.6 km north-east
    909.5 m
  4. 4
    Esk Pike2.1 km east
    885 m
1234ScafellLingmellGreat EndEsk PikeN1 km

Lists

  • Highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 6th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 4th highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here
  • 6th highest of the 15 Furths profiled here
  • 140th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here
  • 11th highest of the 51 County tops profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Carnedd Llewelyn, 1,061.8 m, 152.3 km south
Region
34B: Lake District C&W
OS map
89, 90
Summit
Rock by trig point
DoBIH no.
2359
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Scafell Pike

Data: DoBIH v18.6, CC BY 4.0 (method). The highest hills in each country and county