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Birkett — Western (not a Wainwright summit)Birkett top

Banna Fell

Banna Fell (455 m / 1,493 ft) is a Birkett (one of the 541 tops in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells), one of the lesser-known Western tops.

455 m
Height
+14
Bonus Birketts
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455 mBirkett — Western (not a Wainwright summit)+14 bonus Birketts within 3 km

Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast

Modelled guidance for the 455 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 16° to 14°C, gusts to 32 mph, 1.6 mm of rain forecast.

Tue 28 Jul
🌦️
16° / 14°
💨 32 mph
🌧 1.6 mm (99%)
Wed 29 Jul
🌧️
15° / 12°
💨 26 mph
🌧 12.5 mm (100%)
Thu 30 Jul
🌦️
14° / 5°
💨 28 mph
🌧 2.8 mm (87%)
Fri 31 Jul
🌤️
15° / 3°
💨 22 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (86%)
Sat 1 Aug
🌦️
15° / 6°
💨 15 mph
🌧 1.2 mm (82%)
Sun 2 Aug
🌤️
16° / 6°
💨 16 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (35%)
Mon 3 Aug
🌦️
16° / 5°
💨 17 mph
🌧 0.4 mm (23%)

Forecast snapshot from 28 Jul 2026, 04:58 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 455 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.

Pro mountain forecasts: MWIS · Met Office mountain forecast

About the walk

Key information

Banna Fell

Banna Fell (455 m / 1,493 ft) is a Birkett (one of the 541 tops in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells), one of the lesser-known Western tops. The name comes from fell (Old Norse fjall, a mountain or hill). It also features on the Synge list. Its nearest tops are Floutern Cop (0.6 km E); Herdus (1.1 km S); Gavel Fell (1.1 km N) — it's usually taken in on a round of these neighbours. It's a worthwhile objective for anyone working through the Birkett list, or as a short extension to a bigger day on the higher neighbouring fells.

Classifications & hill data
Birkett
Synge
455 m
Height
1,493 ft
In feet
NY 1158 1740
Grid ref

Map & nearby Birketts

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

Nearest parking: Bowness Knott, Ennerdale (Forestry, paid), about 2.1 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Banna Fell (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.

0.6 km EFloutern Cop451 m · Western
1.1 km SHerdus562 m · Western
1.6 km NNEGavel Fell - High Nook (Gavel Fell North Top)488 m · North Western
1.6 km SBrown How (Ennerdale)330 m · Western
1.6 km NNWHigh Pen475 m · North Western
1.7 km WNWGodworth365 m · Western
1.9 km SBowness Knott333 m · Western
1.9 km NWLow Pen435 m · North Western
2.1 km ESEGale Fell518 m · Western
2.3 km WNWKelton Fell311 m · Western
2.4 km NELittle Dodd (Loweswater)362 m · North Western
2.7 km NWMurton Fell (Knock Murton)446 m · North Western
2.8 km NNWSharp Knott482 m · North Western
2.9 km NCarling Knott544 m · North Western

Terrain & access

A near-path top (about 455 m): a mapped path comes within about 104 m of the summit, with a last stretch of open ground (about 15 m of ascent, up to ~22°). The summit is on CRoW open access land.

Computed from open data, not walked — pathless ground needs confident navigation, and mapped paths, barriers and access boundaries can be incomplete. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (via Overpass); Natural England CRoW Access Land; DoBIH; Copernicus GLO-30. See the terrain & access report for how this is worked out across all 145 fells.

Best parking to hike Banna Fell

Where we have the data, each parking spot also shows the nearest public toilets and facilities (cafés, pubs, shops).

Bowness Knott, Ennerdale (Forestry, paid) — 2.1 km from summit (straight line)
Forestry England car park at the end of the Ennerdale valley road, on the lake's north shore (OS NY 110 154; parking charges apply since 2023) — Great Borne, Starling Dodd, and the long walk-ins to Pillar and Steeple.
Directions
Maggie's Bridge, Loweswater (NT, free) — 4.1 km from summit (straight line)
Small free car park for Mellbreak, Hen Comb and the Loweswater fells.
Directions

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.

Buses to Banna Fell from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

No regular bus serves the start points for this fell — this is one for the car (or a long approach from the nearest served valley). The nearest hubs are Penrith (X4/X5 & 508), Ambleside and Windermere (555, 505, 516).

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

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