It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.

The fell is above Beacon Tarn and can be accessed from quiet paths off the main road from Water Yeat to Torver.

Wainwright describes an ascent from Brown Howe, passing over the summit and down to Beacon Tarn (also visited on his Woodland Fell walk) before returning on the western slopes on the line of the Cumbria Way.

Beacon Tarn fault, part of the Coniston Fault complex, passes under the East side of Beacon Tarn.

The fault line runs in an approx N 10 degrees E direction.