Summit Register

Lake District fell · Westmorland and Furness, England

Silver How

393.8 m

1,292 ftDrop 29.7 mNY 324 066

Finder: 94 Wainwrights in Westmorland and Furness

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmSilver How393.8Blea Rigg541.5Loughrigg Fell335.1Helm Crag405Lingmoor Fell469.9
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmSilver How393.8Blea Rigg541.5Loughrigg Fell335.1
Looking north, 98 km wide, heights ×35 (method).

Silver How is a Lake District fell of 393.8 m in Westmorland and Furness. It rises only 29.7 m above its key col, 7.5% of its height.

It sits below Blea Rigg, only 2.6 km to the north-west and 147.7 m higher. Its key col leads to High Raise, not to its nearest higher summit, Lang How. Only 12 of the 242 hills profiled in England are lower. Its nearest higher summit, Lang How (414 m, 0.8 km north-west), is a listed top not profiled here. The key col is close by, only 0.3 km to the west at 364.1 m. It is 257.2 m below the average height of the 103 register hills in Westmorland and Furness.

To scale

Summit393.8 mKey col364.1 msea level
Key col NY 3213 0662, 0.3 km west of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

393.8 m230th highest of 242 in England

Drop

29.7 m1082nd of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

0.8 km1086th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Blea Rigg2.6 km north-west
    541.5 m
  2. 2
    Loughrigg Fell2.7 km south-east
    335.1 m
  3. 3
    Helm Crag2.7 km north
    405 m
  4. 4
    Lingmoor Fell3.0 km south-west
    469.9 m
1234Blea RiggLoughrigg FellHelm CragLingmoor FellN2 km

Lists

Record

Nearest higher
Lang How, 414 m, 0.8 km north-west
Parent Marilyn
High Raise
Region
34B: Lake District C&W
OS map
90
Summit
Cairn
DoBIH no.
2499
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Silver How

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