Pass · England

Honister Pass

353 m1,158 ft

Connects: Low Buck How – Mountain Rescue Post
Tonight: 3°CPartly cloudy · Wind 17 km/h NW

Honister Pass is a mountain pass at 353 m in England, United Kingdom. It links Low Buck How and Mountain Rescue Post.

All facts

Saddle: 353 m
Lowest point: 99 m / 156 m

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Pass

Honister Pass: the climb from each side

Crossed by: B5289 Honister Pass, The Monkey Shelf

Distances are straight lines from the saddle to the lowest ground on each side; the road is longer.

3D map

Honister Pass 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

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Honister Pass terrain and contours

50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

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Honister Pass elevation profile

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Weather

Honister Pass weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · 3°C (37°F) · Wind 17 km/h NW

Honister Pass forecast for about 353 m.

Tonight3°–17 km/h NW
Today4°10°40.8 mm57 km/h W
Sun5°8°8.2 mm51 km/h W
Mon5°12°19.6 mm34 km/h SE
Tue7°10°13.8 mm41 km/h S
Wed8°10°7.6 mm30 km/h W
Thu7°9°0.4 mm15 km/h SE
Fri8°10°7.5 mm22 km/h SE
Sat4°8°4.6 mm23 km/h SE
Sun4°6°1.3 mm21 km/h NW

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Honister Pass

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Honister Pass, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest parking
0.1 km ESE
+2 more within 0.6 km
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Nearest campsite
Seathwaite Farm Campsite
1.6 km SE · +2 more within 3.2 km
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Nearest hut
Dubs Hut
1.6 km W · +2 more within 4.7 km
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Nearest caravan site
Low Manesty Caravan Park
5.8 km NNE
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All mapped places 10

Place	Distance
Parking	0.1 km ESE
Parking	0.1 km W
Parking	0.6 km E
Seathwaite Farm CampsiteCampsite	1.6 km SE
Dubs HutHut	1.6 km W
Seatoller FarmCampsite	2.0 km E
Warnscale HeadHut	2.0 km W
Chapel House Farm CampsiteCampsite	3.2 km E
Grange Old SchoolHut	4.7 km NNE
Low Manesty Caravan ParkCaravan site	5.8 km NNE

Slope

Share of the 8 × 8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.

Gentle, 0–15°

31.2%

Moderate, 15–30°

42.2%

Steep, 30–45°

24.4%

Cliffs, 45° and over

2.2%

Steeper than 30°: 26.6% of the 64 km² view
Relief in view: 818 m low point 76 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 85.3%Trees 13.8%Water 0.6%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 4 km of Honister Pass.

Summit list 4

1Green Gable801 m 3.0 km SSW
2Great Gable899 m 3.5 km SSW
3Glaramara783 m 3.8 km SE
4Kirk Fell East Top787 m 3.8 km SW

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 4 km; 421 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Bog asphodel30
Parsley fern29
Alpine Lady's-mantle28
Common Butterwort25
Yellow Saxifrage18
Round-leaved sundew17

Where it sits

Where Honister Pass sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Newlands Valley6.9 km N

Downloads

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Print & wall

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Sources

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-07-15)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Honister Pass

West → east through the centre

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