⛰️ Angletarn Pikes (Angletarn Pikes North Top)

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

566 mWainwright — Eastern Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+1 bonus Birkett within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Angletarn Pikes at 567m (1,860ft) are twin rocky summits above Angle Tarn — the perfect mountain tarn, cupped in a dramatic hollow above Patterdale. Wainwright described the setting of Angle Tarn as one of the most beautiful in Lakeland, and the two rocky pikes framing it from above enhance the scene perfectly. The views from the summit across Ullswater to Hallin Fell and east to the High Street range are excellent. Approached from Patterdale via Boardale Hause, usually combined with Rest Dodd and The Knott for a satisfying circuit of the Hayeswater fells.

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.

2.9 km NNWThe Knight552 m · Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Angletarn Pikes (Angletarn Pikes North Top) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Patterdale (paid) — 1.8 km from summit (straight line)
For Place Fell, St Sunday Crag, the Grisedale fells.
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Cow Bridge, Hartsop (free) — 1.8 km from summit (straight line)
Free car park by Brothers Water — Hartsop above How, Dovedale, Caudale Moor.
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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 508 “Ullswater Bus”
Penrith – Pooley Bridge – Aira Force – Glenridding – Patterdale (summer services continue over Kirkstone Pass to Troutbeck and Windermere)
Catch it from: Penrith · Windermere (summer only)
The key route from Penrith for the Eastern and Far Eastern fells: Helvellyn from Glenridding, Place Fell, the Hartsop fells. The summer Kirkstone extension drops you at the pass for Red Screes and Caudale Moor.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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