Is St Sunday Crag a Wainwright?
Yes. St Sunday Crag is one of the 214 Wainwrights: number 29 of 35 in Book 1, The Eastern Fells, of Alfred Wainwright’s Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells.
Climbing St Sunday Crag from Patterdale Hotel car park
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St Sunday Crag is 841 m high, 22nd of the 214 Wainwrights by height, and belongs to the Eastern Fells in Book 1. This route starts from the Patterdale Hotel car park in Patterdale, the same car park as the Place Fell route. Parking is paid, the hotel runs it, and it sits at about 150 m. The Patterdale Hotel bus stop is about 50 m away, served by the 508 and 509.
The line is 4.5 km long and gains about 720 m. For the first 1.3 km it gains little, reaching about 215 m by 1 km and then running level. This part follows paths with compacted and rock surfaces on the map, and crosses Hag Beck at about 0.9 km.
At about 1.3 km a footpath graded mountain hiking by OpenStreetMap takes over for 2.5 km. It climbs from about 215 m to 480 m by 2.2 km, eases for about 400 m at just under 500 m, then climbs again to about 670 m.
The last 750 m follow a path that is not graded for difficulty on the map. They rise from about 670 m to the summit at 841 m, where a cairn is mapped.
About 2.6 km of the line follows public footpaths and 4.3 km crosses open access land. The first 80 m or so, by the car park, are on neither in the data.
The GPX file traces the route from the car park to the summit cairn. Come back the same way, or plan a longer walk with a map before you set out.
Download the GPXFree. The route is © OpenStreetMap contributors and the file is released under the Open Database Licence: you may copy, share and adapt it.
Where St Sunday Crag stands
Nearest Wainwrights
- Birks1.5 km away · 624 m
- Fairfield1.9 km away · 873 m
- Hartsop above How2.0 km away · 586 m
- Hart Crag2.1 km away · 823 m
- Dollywaggon Pike2.3 km away · 859 m
Straight-line distances between summits.
All the fells in The Eastern FellsAll 214 Wainwrights
Map and route data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Heights along the route from OS Terrain 50. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (NaPTAN, Bus Open Data Service, Lake District National Park Authority rights of way).
Access land © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Heights, grid references and summit positions come from The Database of British and Irish Hills v18.3, used under CC BY 4.0.