
The true summit of Kinder Scout, 53 23 04 N 01 52 15 W marked by a small cairn atop a firmer ground set cairn, long established. Obscured amongst low sedges from afar, but certainly 636m it is also closest to the OS1:25k summit points, although that actually falls somewhere on lower marshy ground about 20m west depending on edition. This cairn is discernable on google & Bing aerial mapping, as is the adjacent path N-S from the nearest River Kinder feeder streams towards Pym Chair and the Woolpacks. Another path leads towards another 636m summit, 193m west, almost as marked on open street map, composed of a 1ft square bilberry & heather turf on a low peat mound, but not solid and certainly not permanent, despite its popularity resulting in a recent small rocky cairn, some gps surveys (hill-bagging.co.uk etc) show this to be currently higher, 53 23 05 N 01 52 26 W.

 

 