Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

Whinlatter

517 m

Brown How - Whinlatter

1,696 ftDrop 16 mNY 191 251

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmWhinlatter517Lord's Seat552Broom Fell510.2Graystones450.4Grisedale Pike790.3
sea level1 kmWhinlatter517Lord's Seat552Broom Fell510.2
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×36 (method).

Whinlatter is a Lake District fell of 517 m in Cumberland. It rises only 16 m above its key col, 3.1% of its height.

Its key col leads to Lord's Seat, not to its nearest higher summit, Whinlatter Top. Its nearest higher summit, Whinlatter Top (525 m, 0.6 km east), is a listed top not profiled here. The key col is close by, only 0.3 km to the south-east at 501 m. Its other name is Brown How - Whinlatter. The highest point is recorded as shelter, not a cairn. The database describes the top as a shelter. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 89 and 90.

To scale

Summit517 mKey col501 msea level
Key col NY 193 249, 0.3 km south-east of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

517 m193rd highest of 242 in England

Drop

16 m1104th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

0.6 km1116th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Lord's Seat1.9 km north-east
    552 m
  2. 2
    Broom Fell2.0 km north
    510.2 m
  3. 3
    Graystones2.1 km north-west
    450.4 m
  4. 4
    Grisedale Pike2.7 km south
    790.3 m
1234Lord's SeatBroom FellGraystonesGrisedale PikeN1 km

Lists

Record

Nearest higher
Whinlatter Top, 525 m, 0.6 km east
Parent Marilyn
Lord's Seat
Region
34A: Lake District N
OS map
89, 90
Summit
Shelter
DoBIH no.
2477
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Whinlatter

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