Mountain · England

Pendle Hill

557 m1,827 ft

Prominence: 392 m1,286 ft
Isolation: 27 km
Tonight: 4°CCloudy · Wind 19 km/h W

Pendle Hill is a 557 m (1,827 ft) mountain in England, United Kingdom.

All facts

Elevation: 557 m · 1,827 ft
Nearest higher peak: Ward's Stone (561 m)
Region: England, United Kingdom
Coordinates: 53.8682° N, 2.2985° W

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3D map

Pendle Hill 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Pendle Hill topographic map

20 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.

Index contours every 100 mShowing west → east through the summit

Pendle Hill elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGPendle Hill satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-04-30.

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GIS & GPS

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Weather

Pendle Hill weather

Tonight · Cloudy · 4°C (39°F) · Wind 19 km/h W

Pendle Hill forecast for the summit, about 557 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 14 m.

Tonight4°–19 km/h WBase 7°
Today4°8°24.3 mm49 km/h SWBase 7 / 11°
Sun5°8°3.3 mm49 km/h WBase 8 / 11°
Mon4°12°8.2 mm33 km/h SWBase 8 / 15°
Tue6°11°8.3 mm35 km/h SWBase 9 / 14°
Wed7°9°2.8 mm30 km/h SWBase 10 / 12°
Thu6°9°0.1 mm9 km/h SBase 9 / 12°
Fri5°10°6.3 mm16 km/h SEBase 8 / 13°
Sat2°8°6.1 mm15 km/h SEBase 5 / 11°
Sun2°6°0.1 mm19 km/h NWBase 5 / 9°

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.

Slope

Share of the 10 × 10 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 92% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

91.7%

Moderate, 15–30°

7.8%

Steep, 30–45°

0.5%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.5% of the 100 km² view
Relief in view: 542 m low point 14 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 83.3%Trees 13.1%Built-up 2.8%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 5 km, measured from the Pendle Hill summit.

Summit list 4

1Stang Top Moor327 m 2.7 km E
2Hollin Top312 m 3.4 km E
3Higher Wheathead388 m 3.7 km ENE
4The Ridge149 m 3.8 km WNW

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 5 km; 540 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Meadow Waxcap33
Common Spotted Orchid23
Scarlet Waxy Cap22
Mother of Thyme21
Parrot Mushroom20
Golden Waxcap19

Where it sits

Where Pendle Hill sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Malham TarnLake · 377 m27 km NNE

Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 556 m at the summit; the official height is 557 m.

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	557 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	556 m	-1 m
Copernicus GLO-90	554 m	-3 m

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 2026-04-30)
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
Accuracy comparison: Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © 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.
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia