Beacon Fell
Short entry: no route or hazard notes for this fell yet.
Beacon Fell at 255m (837ft) is a small summit above Beacon Tarn, west of the southern end of Coniston Water, its heathery top giving a view of Coniston Water and the higher fells of the Old Man group.
Summit conditions on Beacon Fell
On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 14° to 7°C, gusts to 45 mph, 2.4 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.
The forecast figures are Open-Meteo’s, worked out for the summit’s height. How we check →
Parking & buses
Routes near Beacon Fell
No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest route starts we publish, in a straight line from the summit:
- Dunnerdale Fells — starts 5.5 km away
Conditions and 7-day summit forecast
Modelled for the 255 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
Full 7-day forecast
Taken 27 October 2026, 08:13 UTC; the live forecast replaces it when it loads. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)
Parking & buses for Beacon Fell
Parking
2 more places to park near Beacon Fell
Positions are approximate.
Of the pay-and-display machine tickets sold at Brown Howe from 17 August 2024 to 31 March 2026, 23% were bought before 10am (our count of FOI/2026.500 ticket data). Contains public sector information provided by the Lake District National Park Authority and licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Vehicles are left at their owner’s risk: we list places people park and cannot vouch for any of them. Take valuables with you and leave nothing on show.
Buses
The nearest bus stop we hold is the 505 at Coniston, outside John Ruskin School, 8.1 km of walking from the nearest parking for this fell — no bus route we hold serves it.
Getting there across the Lake District: Buses · Parking map · By train · By boat
Hazards on Beacon Fell
We have not written a hazard card for this fell yet, and that is not a sign that it is low-hazard. Check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected. The National Park Authority’s What to pack page, AdventureSmart’s hill walking kit list and Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s safety page are linked from our what to carry guide.
If you need Mountain Rescue
Dial 999 or 112 and ask for the Police, then Mountain Rescue.
Before you call, have ready: where you are (a grid reference if you can – the OS Locate app shows yours on your phone), what has happened, how many of you there are, and your mobile number.
Then stay where you are until the rescue team contacts you.
If you cannot make a voice call because of a hearing or speech impairment, emergency SMS works only if you have registered first: text “register” to 999.
From Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s guidance on calling them out (opens in new tab) (read 26 October 2026).
Map & nearby Birketts
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap, with SRTM elevation data (switch layers top-right).
Parking, toilets and buses: Parking & buses ↑.
Birketts within 3 km of Beacon Fell
No bonus Birketts within 3 km.
About Beacon Fell
Classifications & hill data
Is Beacon Fell a Wainwright?
Beacon Fell is one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells, not one of the 214 in the Pictorial Guides. It is also on the HuMP list.
Selected lists
This is the summit’s grid reference. If you call from anywhere else, give your own position, not this one.
The summit is not a Birkett top.
Lists, height and summit position from the Database of British and Irish Hills; the feet are converted from its metres and the grid reference from that position. How we check →