Arnsbarrow Hill
At 322 m (1,056 ft), Arnsbarrow Hill is a Birkett (one of the 541 tops in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells) in the Southern Fells — an overlooked summit away from the crowds.
Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast
Modelled guidance for the 322 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
On the summit today (Sat 12 Sep): 17° to 9°C, gusts to 38 mph, 30.2 mm of rain forecast.
Forecast snapshot from 12 Sep 2026, 18:50 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 322 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.
Arnsbarrow Hill at a glance
Routes up Arnsbarrow Hill
Hand-mapped, with GPX to download — full maps further down.
Classifications & hill data
The short answers
Is Arnsbarrow Hill a Wainwright?
Arnsbarrow Hill is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett list and the Synge list.
Where do you park for Arnsbarrow Hill?
The nearest car park we hold is Crab Haws car park, Bethecar Moor (free), about 1.5 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is Rigg Wood Car Park, 1.6 km out. We only look within 2.5 km, measured straight-line: over longer distances a road may cross a pass and the drive bears no relation to the line.
How hard is Arnsbarrow Hill?
The shortest way up we hold is Top o' Selside — 8.7 km, 369 m of ascent, about 2.4 hours. On our scale its hardest axis is navigation — Hard.
All axes: navigation: Hard · terrain: Moderate · length: Moderate · steepness: Moderate · exposure: Easy.
Parking & buses for Arnsbarrow Hill
Best parking to hike Arnsbarrow Hill
Where we have the data, each parking spot also shows the nearest public toilets and facilities (cafés, pubs, shops).
Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.
Tip: pan and zoom the interactive map at the top of this page to spot other potential parking near your route.
Vehicles are left entirely at their owner’s risk. We list places people park; we cannot vouch for any of them. Judge it on the day: take valuables with you, leave nothing on show, and if a spot feels wrong when you get there, park somewhere else.
Getting to Arnsbarrow Hill by bus
The nearest bus stop we hold is the 505 at Monk Coniston, at Hall, 6.4 km of walking from the start — not realistically reachable without a car.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Hazards on Arnsbarrow Hill
No hazard card for this fell. The usual open-fell rules apply: check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected.
Map & nearby Birketts
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.
Nearest parking: Crab Haws car park, Bethecar Moor (free), about 1.5 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.
Birketts near Arnsbarrow Hill (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.
Routes over Arnsbarrow Hill
✎️ Planned route — drawn but not personally walked or checked yet.
A planned line is a suggestion, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate independently and carry a map & compass. How to use this guide.
Other fells near Arnsbarrow Hill
- Allen Crags
- Black Fell
- Bowfell
- Brim Fell
- Cold Pike
- Crinkle Crags - Long Top (Second Crinkle)
- Dow Crag
- Esk Pike
- Glaramara
- Great Carrs
- Great End
- Green Crag
- Grey Friar
- Hard Knott
- Harter Fell (Eskdale)
- Holme Fell
- Illgill Head
- Lingmell
- Lingmoor Fell (Brown How)
- Pike of Blisco
- Rossett Pike
- Rosthwaite Fell - Bessyboot
- Scafell
- Scafell Pike
- Seathwaite Fell (Wainwright summit)
- Slight Side
- Swirl How
- The Old Man of Coniston (Coniston Old Man)
- Wetherlam
- Whin Rigg (Wasdale)