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The Lake District by bus

Every map of the Lake District tells you where the fells are. This one tells you how far each of them is from a bus stop. Of the 598 fells we hold, 257 are within a kilometre on foot of one of the 835 stops in our data, on 14 bus services, and 126 more are within five kilometres. Measured on 27 October 2026. That is a distance, not a journey: it does not say that a bus stops there on your day, in your direction, or late enough to bring you back.

The map

What the four bands mean

• Within 1 km (257 fells). The stop is close enough that the walk to it is part of the day rather than a separate expedition.
• 1–5 km (126 fells). A walk-in at each end, if a bus runs when you need one. The table below gives the actual distance, because 1.2 km and 4.8 km are very different days.
• No stop in our data within 5 km (187 fells). None of the 835 stops we hold is within five kilometres on foot. A stop we do not hold may be closer, and a train, a boat, a taxi or a lift may still be the way there: check the operators or a journey planner before you rule it out.
• Not yet known (28 fells). We hold no route or anchor for these, so we have no verdict. They are not the same as “no bus” and are kept separate deliberately — folding them in would turn an absence of evidence into a claim.

Every fell within 5 km of a stop, by the bus that calls there

One section per service. The line shows the stops in the order the bus calls at them — every stop, with the ones we anchor a fell to named. Positions are the ORDER of stops, not distance along the road: we hold the sequence and not the mileage, so nothing here is drawn to scale.

The same fells, as one sortable list

Served fells first, then walk-in by distance. The service column is the route that anchors the fell; several stops carry more than one.

What this map cannot tell you

• Distances are to the anchor stop we hold, not to the nearest stop that exists. A closer stop we have not checked will not appear here.
• A band is about distance, never about the timetable. Seasonality is real and severe in Lakeland, and a summer-only service is not a year-round answer.
• 0 fell(s) had no usable coordinate and are absent from the map rather than drawn at a guess.
• Stops, places and timetables contain public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Bands from data/bus-access.json; stops verified against operator timetables. Updated 31 August 2026.