12 Facts About Scafell Pike

Scafell Pike is the highest and the most prominent mountain in England, at an elevation of 978 metres above sea level.

Name Scafell Pike is believed by some to derive from the Old Norse skalli fjall, meaning either the fell with the shieling or the fell with the bald summit, and is first recorded in 1578 in the corrupted form Skallfield.

Scafell Pike is one of a horseshoe of high fells, open to the south, surrounding the head of Eskdale, Cumbria.

Scafell Pike has a claim to the highest standing water body in England in Broad Crag Tarn, which is on Scafell Pike proper, rather than on Broad Crag.

Scafell Pike is a Marilyn summit which automatically makes it a HuMP and a TuMP.

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Scafell Pike is topologically unusual because the Marilyn qualification contour line passes around Scafell which is itself a HuMP.

Actual height of Scafell Pike is a matter of definition or guesswork.

Scafell Pike is one of three British peaks climbed as part of the National Three Peaks Challenge, and is the highest ground for over 90 miles .

Rugged summit of Scafell Pike was shaped by glacial erosion of the Last Glacial Maximum, during which the Lake District was overlain by ice sheets with thicknesses of several kilometers.

Scafell Pike was used in 1826 as a station in the Principal Triangulation of Britain by the Ordnance Survey when they fixed the relative positions of Britain and Ireland.

Angles between Slieve Donard in Northern Ireland and Scafell Pike were taken from Snowdon in Wales as were angles between Snowdon and Scafell Pike from Slieve Donard.

Scafell Pike was not used as a station in the earlier part of the Principal Triangulation of Britain, even though Sca-Fell formed one corner of a Principal Triangle.