⛰️ Beda Fell (Beda Head)

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

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509 mWainwright — Far Eastern Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+8 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Beda Fell at 509m (1,670ft) is a long, smooth ridge above Martindale, its summit giving outstanding views of Ullswater and the northern Eastern Fells. Wainwright described the traverse of Beda Fell and the ridge to Winter Crag as one of the finest Ullswater ridge walks for its views of the lake. The ascent from Martindale is pleasant and straightforward. Often combined with Angletarn Pikes and The Nab for a fine Martindale circuit. The Ullswater views are exceptional.

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.

1.4 km EBrownthwaite Crag444 m · Far Eastern
1.7 km ESEGowk Hill471 m · Far Eastern
1.7 km NWHigh Dodd501 m · Far Eastern
1.8 km NNWSleet Fell378 m · Far Eastern
2.5 km WThe Knight552 m · Eastern
2.6 km NWLow Birk Fell373 m · Far Eastern
2.8 km WNWBirk Fell (Bleaberry Knott - Birk Fell)512 m · Far Eastern
2.9 km SERed Crag711 m · Far Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Beda Fell (Beda Head) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Patterdale (paid) — 3.5 km from summit (straight line)
For Place Fell, St Sunday Crag, the Grisedale fells.
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Martindale, St Peter's church (free, limited) — 3.7 km from summit (straight line)
Quiet side of Ullswater — Hallin Fell, Steel Knotts, Beda Fell, Pikeawassa.
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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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