Summit Register

Lake District fell · Westmorland and Furness, England

Thornthwaite Crag

784 m

2,572 ftDrop 30.6 mNY 431 100

Finder: 94 Wainwrights in Westmorland and Furness

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmThornthwaite Crag784Stony Cove Pike763.7High Street828.5Froswick720Mardale Ill Bell761.2
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmThornthwaite Crag784Stony Cove Pike763.7High Street828.5
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×34 (method).

Thornthwaite Crag is a Lake District fell of 784 m in Westmorland and Furness. It rises only 30.6 m above its key col, 3.9% of its height.

Its drop of 30.6 m makes it a Hewitt but is short of the 150 m a Marilyn needs. The key col is close by, only 0.5 km to the east at 753.4 m. Its nearest higher summit, High Street, is also the hill its key col leads to. The highest point is recorded as rock 45m n of beacon and 10m e of wall, not a cairn.

To scale

Summit784 mKey col753.4 msea level
Key col NY 4358 1008, 0.5 km east of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

784 m48th highest of 242 in England

Drop

30.6 m1080th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

1.5 km926th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Stony Cove Pike1.4 km west
    763.7 m
  2. 2
    High Street1.5 km north-east
    828.5 m
  3. 3
    Froswick1.6 km south
    720 m
  4. 4
    Mardale Ill Bell1.6 km east
    761.2 m
1234Stony Cove PikeHigh StreetFroswickN1 km

Lists

  • 44th highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 78th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 62nd highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
High Street, 828.5 m, 1.5 km north-east
Parent Marilyn
High Street
Region
34C: Lake District E
OS map
90
Summit
Rock 45m N of beacon and 10m E of wall
DoBIH no.
2535
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Thornthwaite Crag

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