Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

Scoat Fell

841 m

Little Scoat Fell

2,759 ftDrop 85 mNY 159 113

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmScoat Fell841Steeple819Red Pike (Wasdale)826Pillar892.4Haycock797
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmScoat Fell841Steeple819Red Pike (Wasdale)826
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×24 (method).

Scoat Fell is a Lake District fell of 841 m in Cumberland. On the Wainwrights height ladder it sits between St Sunday Crag (841.2 m) and Crag Hill (839.2 m).

Steeple stands only 0.3 km to the north-west. Its drop of 85 m makes it a Hewitt but is short of the 150 m a Marilyn needs. It is 205.7 m above the average height of the 114 register hills in Cumberland. Its nearest higher summit, Pillar, is also the hill its key col leads to. Its other name is Little Scoat Fell. The highest point is recorded as rock n of wall, not a cairn.

To scale

Summit841 mKey col756 msea level
Key col NY 168 117, 1.0 km north-east of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

841 m24th highest of 242 in England

Drop

85 m992nd of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

1.4 km959th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Steeple0.3 km north-west
    819 m
  2. 2
    Red Pike (Wasdale)1.0 km south-east
    826 m
  3. 3
    Pillar1.4 km north-east
    892.4 m
  4. 4
    Haycock1.6 km south-west
    797 m
1234SteepleRed PikePillarHaycockN1 km

Lists

  • 23rd highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 43rd highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 36th highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Pillar, 892.4 m, 1.4 km north-east
Parent Marilyn
Pillar
Region
34B: Lake District C&W
OS map
89
Summit
Rock N of wall
DoBIH no.
2373
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Scoat Fell

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