Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

Scafell

963.9 m

3,162 ftDrop 132.2 mNY 206 064

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmScafell963.9Scafell Pike978.1Slight Side762Lingmell807Great End909.5
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmScafell963.9Scafell Pike978.1Slight Side762
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×23 (method).

Scafell is a Lake District fell of 963.9 m in Cumberland. Only one of the register's England hills is higher.

It is the 2nd highest Wainwright. It counts towards four lists: Wainwrights, Hewitts, Nuttalls and Furths. Of the register hills in Cumberland, only Scafell Pike stands higher. Its drop of 132.2 m makes it a Hewitt but is short of the 150 m a Marilyn needs. It is 328.6 m above the average height of the 114 register hills in Cumberland. Its nearest higher summit, Scafell Pike, is also the hill its key col leads to. The database describes the top as a cairn on rock n of windshelter. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 89 and 90.

To scale

Summit963.9 mKey col831.6 msea level
Key col NY 2102 0690, 0.7 km north-east of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

963.9 m2nd highest of 242 in England

Drop

132.2 m920th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

1.1 km1023rd most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Scafell Pike1.1 km north-east
    978.1 m
  2. 2
    Slight Side1.5 km south
    762 m
  3. 3
    Lingmell1.7 km north
    807 m
  4. 4
    Great End2.8 km north-east
    909.5 m
1234Scafell PikeSlight SideLingmellGreat EndN1 km

Lists

  • 2nd highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 7th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 5th highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here
  • 7th highest of the 15 Furths profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Scafell Pike, 978.1 m, 1.1 km north-east
Parent Marilyn
Scafell Pike
Region
34B: Lake District C&W
OS map
89, 90
Summit
Cairn on rock N of windshelter
DoBIH no.
2360
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Scafell

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