⛰️ Allen Crags

785 m · Wainwright — Southern Fells · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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785 mWainwright — Southern Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+12 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Allen Crags at 785m (2,575ft) is one of Lakeland's most overlooked summits, sitting quietly above Esk Hause between the busy paths to Glaramara and Great End. Wainwright praised its excellent position and the surprisingly fine views it offers — particularly south-east over Langstrath and east to the Helvellyn range. The summit is a small, rocky top with a modest cairn, easily reached from Esk Hause in minutes. Most walkers combine it with Glaramara as part of the classic Borrowdale ridge walk, descending via Grains Gill to Seathwaite. A genuinely worthwhile diversion that adds little effort but rewards with distinct views.

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.

🎯 Bonus Birketts within 3 km

These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits — detour to them on this walk and they are pure profit. Distances are straight-line; allow extra for terrain.

0.8 km NNEHigh House Tarn Top (High House - Allen Crags)683 m · Southern
1.3 km NNERed Beck Top (Glaramara South Top) (Lincomb Head - Glaramara)720 m · Southern
1.5 km NWSeathwaite Fell (Great Slack - Seathwaite Fell)631 m · Southern
1.7 km SPike de Bield810 m · Southern
1.8 km ESEBuck Pike (Mickleden)606 m · Southern
1.8 km SWIll Crag931 m · Southern
1.9 km NNELooking Steads (Glaramara)774 m · Southern
1.9 km ESEBlack Crags (Mickleden)588 m · Southern
2.1 km WSWBroad Crag935 m · Southern
2.3 km SWPen762 m · Southern
2.7 km NNECombe Head735 m · Southern
2.8 km SSWHigh Gait Crags572 m · Southern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Allen Crags (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale (free verge) — 4.0 km from summit (straight line)
Free verge parking on the Seathwaite lane — the honeypot start for the Scafells, Great Gable and Glaramara. Arrive very early.
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Honister Pass (paid, slate mine) — 5.2 km from summit (straight line)
Pay & display at the top of the pass — Dale Head, Fleetwith Pike, Grey Knotts with minimal ascent.
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Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Stagecoach 78 “Borrowdale Rambler”
Keswick – Lodore – Grange – Rosthwaite – Seatoller
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 or X4/X5)
Year-round, frequent in season. Serves all the Borrowdale starts — Glaramara, the Scafells and Great Gable via Seathwaite (alight Seatoller, 20 min walk up the lane).
Stagecoach 77 / 77A “Honister Rambler”
Keswick – Portinscale – Hawse End (Catbells) – Grange – Seatoller – Honister Pass – Buttermere – Lorton – Whinlatter – Keswick (circular)
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 from Windermere/Ambleside or X4/X5 from Penrith)
Seasonal (roughly Easter–October). Brilliant for the North Western fells: Catbells, Dale Head from Honister, the Buttermere fells and Whinlatter.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

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