⛰️ Bell Crags (Long Moss) (Blea Tarn Fell)

559 m · Birkett — Central (not a Wainwright summit) · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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559 mBirkett — Central (not a Wainwright summit)+10 bonus Birketts within 3 km

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.

0.8 km ENEBrown Rigg462 m · Central
1.0 km SStanding Crag611 m · Central
1.1 km WNWWatendlath Fell (Long Moss)515 m · Central
1.4 km NWShivery Knott491 m · Central
1.4 km SWLow Saddle656 m · Central
1.6 km SSWColdbarrow Fell - High Saddle675 m · Central
1.7 km NArmboth Fell (Birkett)479 m · Central
1.8 km NWMiddle Crag484 m · Central
2.1 km NNEFisher Crag421 m · Central
2.2 km SEWythburn Fell508 m · Central

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Bell Crags (Long Moss) (Blea Tarn Fell) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Steel End, Thirlmere (paid) — 2.4 km from summit (straight line)
South end of Thirlmere for the Wythburn valley and Armboth fells.
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Watendlath (NT, paid) — 2.7 km from summit (straight line)
End of the narrow Watendlath road — Grange Fell, Great Crag, Armboth fells.
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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 555
Kendal – Staveley – Windermere – Ambleside – Rydal – Grasmere – Thirlmere (Wythburn & Swirls) – Keswick
Catch it from: Windermere · Ambleside
Year-round, roughly hourly. The backbone bus of the A591 — ideal for Helvellyn (Wythburn/Swirls), Fairfield, the Central fells and anything around Grasmere/Rydal. From Penrith, take the X4/X5 to Keswick and change.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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