Scafell Pike is the highest mountain in England. It is located in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria at 978 metres (3,209 feet).Scafell Pike is one of a horseshoe of high fells, open to the south, which surrounds the head of Eskdale.

Scafell Pike consists of igneous rock dating from the Ordovician geologically part of the Borrowdale Volcanics. The summit plateau of Scafell pike, and that of other neighbouring peaks, is covered with shattered rock debris which provides the highest altitude example of a summit boulder field in England.