⛰️ Arthur's Pike

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

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

📖 Key Information

Arthur's Pike at 533m (1,749ft) is a grassy summit above Ullswater's western shore, giving fine views of the lake from its open top. Wainwright described it as a pleasant short walk from Pooley Bridge with rewarding lake views. Most naturally combined with Bonscale Pike as a short circuit above Ullswater. The views east across the lake to the distant Pennines are a distinctive bonus from this northern end of the Far Eastern 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.

1.3 km SSWSwarth Fell (Ullswater)545 m · Far Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Arthur's Pike (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Martindale, St Peter's church (free, limited) — 1.3 km from summit (straight line)
Quiet side of Ullswater — Hallin Fell, Steel Knotts, Beda Fell, Pikeawassa.
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Pooley Bridge (paid) — 3.7 km from summit (straight line)
For Heughscar Hill, Dunmallard Hill, Arthur's Pike and the Roman road onto High Street's north end.
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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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