Complete Lakeland Fells · Bill Birkett, 1994

The Birketts.

Q: Who created the Birketts?

Bill Birkett, in Complete Lakeland Fells (1994).

Bill Birkett set out to catalogue every distinct Lakeland top of at least 1,000 feet (305 m) lying within the National Park boundary — 541 fells in all, the most exhaustive of the popular Lakeland lists. Where Wainwright was selective, Birkett is comprehensive: his round takes in every named knott, crag and subsidiary summit the bigger lists pass by, from the great peaks down to obscure tops few walkers ever name. First published by Collins Willow in 1994 as Complete Lakeland Fells, the book sets out over 120 classic walks linking the tops, and the full round — now affectionately called “doing the Birketts” — has become the natural, and far longer, next step for walkers who have completed the 214.

536

with a guide here, of 541

978 m

highest · Scafell Pike

1994

first published

About the author

Bill Birkett is one of Britain's leading mountain writers and photographers and a lifelong climber, with more than thirty books on the Lakes to his name. He belongs to a celebrated Lakeland climbing dynasty: his father, Jim Birkett, was among the finest rock climbers of his generation, and the family has shaped Lakeland climbing across three generations from their home in Little Langdale.

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Adam Seat666 m

Allen Crags785 mWainwright

Angletarn Pikes (Angletarn Pikes North Top)566 mWainwright

Ard Crags581 mWainwright

Armboth Fell (Birkett)479 m

Arnison Crag433 mWainwright

Arnsbarrow Hill322 m

Arthur's Pike533 mWainwright

Atkinson Pike (Foule Crag)845 m

Bakestall674 mWainwright

Bampton Fell (Bampton Common)489 m

Banna Fell455 m

Bannerdale Crags684 mWainwright

Bannisdale Fell - Long Crag493 m

Barf469 mWainwright

Barrow455 mWainwright

Base Brown646 mWainwright

Beda Fell (Beda Head)509 mWainwright

Bell Crags (Long Moss) (Blea Tarn Fell)559 m

Bigert331 m

Binsey447 mWainwright

Birch Fell318 m

Birk Fell (Bleaberry Knott - Birk Fell)512 m

Birk Fell Man - Birk Fell528 m

Birker Fell - Great Crag333 m

Birker Fell - White How444 m

Birkett Fell725 m

Birkhouse Moor718 mWainwright

Birks624 mWainwright

Black Combe600 m

Black Combe South Top588 m

Black Crag828 m

Black Crags (Mickleden)588 m

Black Fell323 mWainwright

Black Sails745 m

Blake Fell573 mWainwright

Blake Rigg (Little Langdale)535 m

Blake Rigg (Tilberthwaite)423 m

Blakeley Raise389 m

Blea Rigg542 mWainwright

Bleaberry Fell590 mWainwright

Blencathra - Hallsfell Top868 mWainwright

Boat How337 m

Bonscale Pike524 mWainwright

Border End522 m

Bowfell903 mWainwright

Bowness Knott333 m

Bowscale Fell702 mWainwright

Bracken How373 m

Brackeny Crag364 m

Brae Fell585 mWainwright

Brandreth715 mWainwright

Branstree712 mWainwright

Branstree NE Top (Branstree East Top) (High Howes (Mardale))673 m

Brim Fell796 mWainwright

Broad Crag935 m

Broad Crag - Birker Fell372 m

Broad End832 m

Brock Barrow343 m

Brock Crags (Wainwright)561 mWainwright

Broom Fell510 mWainwright

Brown Crag610 m

Brown Hills551 m

Brown How (Ennerdale)330 m

Brown Howe (Mardale)529 m

Brown Pike682 m

Brown Rigg462 m

Brownthwaite Crag444 m

Brunt Knott427 m

Buck Barrow549 m

Buck Pike (Mickleden)606 m

Buck Pike - Seathwaite Fell744 m

Buckbarrow423 mWainwright

Burn Edge320 m

Burn Moor543 m

Burn Tod595 m

Burnbank Fell475 mWainwright

Burthwaite Heights318 m

Calf Crag537 mWainwright

Calfhow Pike660 m

Capple Howe445 m

Capplebarrow513 m

Carl Side747 mWainwright

Carling Knott544 m

Carrock Fell662 mWainwright

Carron Crag314 m

Castle Crag (Mardale)395 m

Castle Crag (Shoulthwaite)404 m

Castle How (Raw Pike)498 m

Castle Rock339 m

Cat Bells (Catbells)451 mWainwright

Catstye Cam890 mWainwright

Caudale Moor - John Bell's Banner755 m

Causey Pike637 mWainwright

Caw529 m

Caw Fell697 mWainwright

Clough Head726 mWainwright

Cocklaw Fell365 m

Cockup505 m

Codale Head732 m

Cofa Pike823 m

Cold Pike700 mWainwright

Coldbarrow Fell - High Saddle675 m

Combe Head735 m

Common Fell552 m

Coomb Height627 m

Crag Fell523 mWainwright

Crag Hill (Eel Crag)839 mWainwright

Crinkle Crags - Fourth Crinkle832 m

Crinkle Crags - Gunson Knott (Fifth Crinkle)822 m

Crinkle Crags - Long Top (Second Crinkle)859 mWainwright

Crinkle Crags South Top (First Crinkle)834 m

Crook Crag469 m

Dale Head754 mWainwright

Darling Fell392 m

Dawsonground Crags397 m

Demming Crag525 m

Dodd (Buttermere)641 m

Dodd (Lorton)454 m

Dodd (Skiddaw)502 mWainwright

Doddick Fell742 m

Dollywaggon Pike859 mWainwright

Dove Crag792 mWainwright

Dovenest Top (Dovenest Crag) (Stonethwaite Fell)633 m

Dow Crag778 mWainwright

Eagle Crag523 mWainwright

Eel Crag (Birkett)807 m

Esk Pike885 mWainwright

Eskdale Fell - Whinscales425 m

Eycott Hill345 m

Fairfield873 mWainwright

Fellbarrow - Mosser Fell416 mWainwright

Fisher Crag421 m

Fleetwith Pike649 mWainwright

Floutern Cop451 m

Four Stones Hill415 m

Fox Haw385 m

Froswick720 mWainwright

Frozen Fell625 m

Gale Crag512 m

Gale Fell518 m

Gasgale Crags703 m

Gategill Fell Top852 m

Gavel Fell524 mWainwright

Gavel Fell - High Nook (Gavel Fell North Top)488 m

Gavel Pike784 m

Gibson Knott420 mWainwright

Glade How440 m

Glaramara783 mWainwright

Glede Howe476 m

Glenridding Dodd442 mWainwright

Goat Crag312 m

Goat Scar626 m

Godworth365 m

Gowbarrow Fell (Wainwright summit)481 mWainwright

Gowk Hill471 m

Grange Fell (Brund Fell)417 mWainwright

Grasmoor852 mWainwright

Gray Crag698 mWainwright

Graystones455 m

Great Bank329 m

Great Borne616 mWainwright

Great Calva691 mWainwright

Great Carrs785 mWainwright

Great Cockup526 mWainwright

Great Crag (Stonethwaite)449 mWainwright

Great Dodd857 mWainwright

Great End910 mWainwright

Great Gable899 mWainwright

Great How (Swirl Band)775 m

Great How (Thirlmere)333 m

Great How - Eskdale Fell522 m

Great Howe (Longsleddale)494 m

Great Intake - Low Fell408 m

Great Knott695 m

Great Lingy Hill616 m

Great Meldrum437 m

Great Mell Fell537 mWainwright

Great Paddy Crag532 m

Great Rigg766 mWainwright

Great Saddle Crag560 m

Great Sca Fell651 mWainwright

Great Stickle305 m

Great Whinscale427 m

Great Worm Crag427 m

Great Yarlside591 m

Green Crag489 mWainwright

Green Gable800 mWainwright

Green Hill - Gowbarrow Park439 m

Green How - Aughertree Fell321 m

Green Side (White Stones - Green Side)794 m

Grey Crag (Sleddale Fell)638 mWainwright

Grey Friar773 mWainwright

Grey Knotts697 mWainwright

Grike488 mWainwright

Grisedale Pike790 mWainwright

Gummer's How321 m

Hallin Fell388 mWainwright

Hard Knott550 mWainwright

Hare Crag538 m

Hare Shaw503 m

Hare Stones627 m

Harper Hills420 m

Harrison Stickle735 mWainwright

Harrop Pike637 m

Hart Crag823 mWainwright

Hart Side756 mWainwright

Harter Fell (Eskdale)653 mWainwright

Harter Fell (Mardale)779 mWainwright

Hartsop Above How (Gill Crag - Hartsop Above How)586 mWainwright

Hartsop Dodd619 mWainwright

Hatteringill Head - Whin Fell385 m

Hawk Rigg441 m

Haycock797 mWainwright

Haystacks (Buttermere)597 mWainwright

Haystacks (Tilberthwaite)423 m

Hell Gill Pike662 m

Helm Crag405 mWainwright

Helvellyn950 mWainwright

Helvellyn Lower Man925 m

Hen Comb506 mWainwright

Herdus562 m

Heron Pike (Glenridding)612 m

Heron Pike (Rydal)612 mWainwright

Heron Pike North Top (Rydal Fell)621 m

Hesk Fell478 m

Heughscar Hill375 m

High Brow575 m

High Crag (Buttermere)745 mWainwright

High Crag (Grisedale)884 m

High Crags (Newlands)529 m

High Dodd501 m

High Fell (Hawk Rigg)428 m

High Gait Crags572 m

High Hartsop Dodd519 mWainwright

High House Bank495 m

High House Tarn Top (High House - Allen Crags)683 m

High Hows (Lamplugh)313 m

High Pen475 m

High Pike (Caldbeck)658 mWainwright

High Pike (Scandale)657 mWainwright

High Pike Haw354 m

High Raise (High Street)804 mWainwright

High Raise (High White Stones)763 mWainwright

High Rigg (High Rigg South Top)343 m

High Rigg (Naddle Fell)356 mWainwright

High Scarth487 m

High Seat609 mWainwright

High Snockrigg526 m

High Spy653 mWainwright

High Stile806 mWainwright

High Stile (Grey Crag - High Stile)807 m

High Street829 mWainwright

High Tove515 mWainwright

High Wether Howe531 m

High Wythow410 m

Hindscarth727 mWainwright

Hobcarton Crag (Hobcarton Head)738 m

Hobcarton End634 m

Hollow Moor (Green Quarter Fell)426 m

Holme Fell316 mWainwright

Honister Crag (Black Star)634 m

Hopegill Head770 mWainwright

Horsehow Crags433 m

Ill Bell757 mWainwright

Ill Crag931 m

Ill Crag (Newlands) (Knott Rigg North Top)546 m

Illgill Head609 mWainwright

Iron Crag (Ennerdale Fell)640 m

Irton Fell395 m

Jenkin Hill735 m

Kelton Fell311 m

Kentmere Pike731 mWainwright

Kepple Crag328 m

Kidsty Pike781 mWainwright

King's How - Grange Fell392 m

Kinmont Buck Barrow535 m

Kinn374 m

Kinniside375 m

Kirk Fell802 mWainwright

Kirk Fell (Lorton)437 m

Kirk Fell East Top (Kirk Fell North Top)787 m

Kitty Crag435 m

Knipescar Common (Knipe Scar)341 m

Knott710 mWainwright

Knott Rigg556 mWainwright

Knowe Crags (Blease Fell)805 m

Lad Hows426 m

Ladyside Pike704 m

Lamb Pasture367 m

Lang How414 m

Lank Rigg541 mWainwright

Latrigg369 mWainwright

Latter Barrow354 m

Ling Fell374 mWainwright

Lingmell807 mWainwright

Lingmell (Ennerdale)427 m

Lingmoor Fell (Brown How)470 mWainwright

Lining Crag542 m

Little Calva642 m

Little Carrs692 m

Little Cockup399 m

Little Dodd (Ennerdale)590 m

Little Dodd (Loweswater)362 m

Little Dodd (St John's Common)785 m

Little Eycott Hill332 m

Little Gowder Crag735 m

Little Hart Crag (Little Hart Crag - West Top)637 mWainwright

Little Harter Fell681 m

Little Meldrum404 m

Little Mell Fell505 mWainwright

Little Sca Fell633 m

Little Stand740 m

Little Yarlside518 m

Loadpot Hill672 mWainwright

Loft Crag682 mWainwright

Long Crag - Yewdale Fells421 m

Long Side734 mWainwright

Longlands Fell483 mWainwright

Lonscale Fell715 mWainwright

Lonscale Pike (Lonscale Fell East Top)703 m

Looking Stead (Pillar)628 m

Looking Steads (Glaramara)775 m

Lord's Seat552 mWainwright

Lord's Seat (Crookdale) (Lord's Seat - High House Fell)524 m

Lothwaite345 m

Loughrigg Fell335 mWainwright

Low Birk Fell373 m

Low Fell423 mWainwright

Low How497 m

Low Kop572 m

Low Pen435 m

Low Pike508 mWainwright

Low Raise754 m

Low Saddle656 m

Low White Stones731 m

Low Wythow372 m

Loweswater End - Carling Knott519 m

Loweswater Fell (Low Fell South Top)417 m

Lowthwaite Fell509 m

Maiden Moor575 mWainwright

Mardale Ill Bell761 mWainwright

Meal Fell549 mWainwright

Mellbreak (Mellbreak South Top)511 mWainwright

Mellbreak North Top509 m

Middle Crag484 m

Middle Dodd654 mWainwright

Middle Fell582 mWainwright

Miller Moss (Little Lingy Hill)610 m

Miton Hill607 m

Murton Fell (Knock Murton)446 m

Nab Scar450 mWainwright

Naddle High Forest435 m

Naddle Low Forest426 m

Nethermost Pike891 mWainwright

Orthwaite Bank348 m

Outerside568 mWainwright

Owsen Fell409 m

Pavey Ark702 mWainwright

Pen762 m

Pike de Bield810 m

Pike of Blisco703 mWainwright

Pike of Stickle708 mWainwright

Pikes469 m

Pillar892 mWainwright

Pillar Rock780 m

Pinnacle Howe383 m

Place Fell657 mWainwright

Plough Fell448 m

Ponsonby Fell315 m

Powleys Hill465 m

Raise883 mWainwright

Rampsgill Head792 mWainwright

Randerside729 m

Rannerdale Knotts355 mWainwright

Raven Crag461 mWainwright

Raven's Crag (Stickle Pike)361 m

Red Beck Top (Glaramara South Top) (Lincomb Head - Glaramara)720 m

Red Crag711 m

Red Knott452 m

Red Pike (Buttermere)755 mWainwright

Red Pike (Wasdale)826 mWainwright

Red Screes779 mWainwright

Rest Dodd696 mWainwright

Rivings335 m

Robin Hood492 m

Robinson738 mWainwright

Rossett Pike651 mWainwright

Rosthwaite Fell (Rosthwaite Cam)612 m

Rosthwaite Fell - Bessyboot551 mWainwright

Rough Crag (Birker Moor)319 m

Rough Crag (Riggindale)628 m

Round How387 m

Round Knott603 m

Rowling End433 m

Sail773 mWainwright

Sale Fell359 mWainwright

Sale How666 m

Sallows516 mWainwright

Sand Hill756 m

Scafell964 mWainwright

Scafell Pike978 mWainwright

Scale Knott338 m

Scalebarrow Knott338 m

Scales Fell682 m

Scar Crags672 mWainwright

Scar Lathing439 m

Scoat Fell (Little Scoat Fell)841 mWainwright

Scope End412 m

Seat561 m

Seat How (Birker Moor)311 m

Seat How (Thornthwaite)495 m

Seat Robert515 m

Seat Sandal737 mWainwright

Seatallan693 mWainwright

Seathwaite Fell (Great Slack - Seathwaite Fell)631 m

Seathwaite Fell (Wainwright summit)601 mWainwright

Selside Pike655 mWainwright

Sergeant Man736 mWainwright

Sergeant's Crag571 mWainwright

Sharp Knott482 m

Sheffield Pike676 mWainwright

Shelter Crags815 m

Shipman Knotts587 mWainwright

Shivery Knott491 m

Side Pike362 m

Silver How394 mWainwright

Silverybield Crag395 m

Skelgill Bank338 m

Skiddaw930 mWainwright

Skiddaw Lesser Man824 m

Skiddaw Little Man865 mWainwright

Skiddaw Middle Top929 m

Skiddaw South Top926 m

Sleddale Pike506 m

Sleet Fell378 m

Slight Side762 mWainwright

Smithy Fell392 m

Sour Howes483 mWainwright

Sourfoot Fell411 m

Souther Fell522 mWainwright

St Raven's Edge593 m

St Sunday Crag841 mWainwright

Stainton Pike498 m

Standing Crag611 m

Stang Hill (Arnsbarrow Hill South Top)316 m

Starling Dodd633 mWainwright

Steel Fell (Dead Pike - Steel Fell)553 mWainwright

Steel Knotts (Pikeawassa - Steel Knotts)432 mWainwright

Steeple819 mWainwright

Stickle Pike375 m

Stile End447 m

Stone Arthur504 mWainwright

Stone Pike322 m

Stoneside Hill422 m

Stonesty Pike765 m

Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)764 mWainwright

Stoupdale Head472 m

Stybarrow Dodd844 mWainwright

Swainson Knott345 m

Swarth Fell (Kinniside)335 m

Swarth Fell (Ullswater)545 m

Swinescar Pike411 m

Swineside Knott553 m

Swinklebank Crag (Ancrow Brow)554 m

Swinside509 m

Swirl How802 mWainwright

Tarbarrel Moss493 m

Tarn Crag (Easedale)549 mWainwright

Tarn Crag (Sleddale)664 mWainwright

Tarn Crags Top (Bowscale Fell East Top)665 m

Tarn Hill313 m

The Benn (Sippling Crag)446 m

The Forest (Borrowdale Head)528 m

The Knight552 m

The Knott (High Street)739 mWainwright

The Knott (Stainton Fell)331 m

The Nab576 mWainwright

The Old Man of Coniston (Coniston Old Man)802 mWainwright

The Pike370 m

The Tongue553 m

Thirdgill Head Man734 m

Thorn Crag644 m

Thornthwaite Crag784 mWainwright

Thornythwaite Fell574 m

Threlkeld Knotts514 m

Throstlehow Crag404 m

Thunacar Knott723 mWainwright

Todd Fell401 m

Top o' Selside (Wainwright summit)332 m

Troutbeck Tongue364 mWainwright

Ullister Hill525 m

Ullock Pike690 mWainwright

Ullscarf723 mWainwright

Ulthwaite Rigg502 m

Walla Crag379 mWainwright

Wallow Crag433 m

Walna Scar621 m

Wandope774 mWainwright

Wansfell Pike484 m

Wasdale Pike565 m

Watches333 m

Watendlath Fell (Long Moss)515 m

Water Crag305 m

Watermillock Fell (Little Mell Fell South Top)424 m

Watson's Dodd789 mWainwright

Wether Hill673 mWainwright

Wetherlam763 mWainwright

Whatshaw Common490 m

Whin Crag (Eskdale)358 m

Whin Rigg (Wasdale)537 mWainwright

Whinlatter (Brown How - Whinlatter)517 mWainwright

Whinlatter Top525 m

White Combe417 m

White Hall Knott311 m

White Howe (Bannisdale)530 m

White Maiden613 m

White Pike (Birkby Fell)442 m

White Pike (Seathwaite)600 m

White Side863 mWainwright

White Stones - The Band568 m

Whiteless Pike660 mWainwright

Whiteside (Whiteside West Top)707 mWainwright

Whiteside East Top (Whiteside) (Gasgale Crags)719 m

Whiteside Pike397 m

Whitfell573 m

Whoap511 m

Woodend Height489 m

Wren Crag311 m

Wrynose Fell - Long Crag547 m

Wythburn Fell508 m

Yew Bank499 m

Yewbarrow629 mWainwright

Yewbarrow North Top (Stirrup Crag)617 m

Yoadcastle494 m

Yoke707 mWainwright

This page lists the 536 fells on this list that have a guide on the site — not the full national list of 541. The five Birketts without a guide here are Crinkle Crags - Third Crinkle (Gunson Knott), Skiddaw North Top, Angletarn Pikes South Top, Wansfell (Wansfell North Top) and White Hause. New to the lists? See how the fell lists differ.

Common questions

How many Birketts are there?

541 in the list; 536 of them have a walking guide here so far.

Which is the highest?

Scafell Pike, at 978 m.

Who created the Birketts?

Bill Birkett, in Complete Lakeland Fells (1994).