Summit Register

Lake District fell · Westmorland and Furness, England

Souther Fell

522 m

1,713 ftDrop 88 mNY 354 291

Finder: 94 Wainwrights in Westmorland and Furness

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmSouther Fell522Bannerdale Crags684.1Bowscale Fell702Blencathra – Hallsfell Top867.8Mungrisdale Common631.8
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmSouther Fell522Bannerdale Crags684.1Bowscale Fell702
Looking north, 127 km wide, heights ×44 (method).

Souther Fell is a Lake District fell of 522 m in Westmorland and Furness. All four of its nearest neighbours are higher, up to Blencathra – Hallsfell Top at 867.8 m.

It sits below Bannerdale Crags, only 1.9 km to the west and 162.1 m higher. Its key col leads to Blencathra – Hallsfell Top, not to its nearest higher summit, The Tongue. All four of its nearest neighbours lie to the west, so it stands at the eastern edge of its group. Its nearest higher summit, The Tongue (553 m, 1.2 km north-west), is a listed top not profiled here. The highest point is recorded as rock, not a cairn.

To scale

Summit522 mKey col434 msea level
Key col NY 346 279, 1.4 km south-west of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

522 m191st highest of 242 in England

Drop

88 m986th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

1.2 km1003rd most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Bannerdale Crags1.9 km west
    684.1 m
  2. 2
    Bowscale Fell2.5 km north-west
    702 m
  3. 3867.8 m
  4. 4
    Mungrisdale Common4.3 km west
    631.8 m
1234Bowscale FellBlencathraN2 km

Lists

Record

Nearest higher
The Tongue, 553 m, 1.2 km north-west
Region
34A: Lake District N
OS map
90
Summit
Rock
DoBIH no.
2348
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Souther Fell

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