⛰️ Birk Fell (Bleaberry Knott - Birk Fell)

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

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512 mBirkett — Far Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)+11 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Birk Fell at 497m (1,631ft) is a moorland summit above the Troutbeck valley, giving views across to the Ill Bell ridge and south to Windermere. A Birkett fell in the lower fell country east of Troutbeck. The ascent from Troutbeck is short. Part of the lower ridge system above the Troutbeck valley, distinct from the main Wainwright ridge to the north.

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.

0.6 km SSEThe Knight552 m · Eastern
1.1 km NELow Birk Fell373 m · Far Eastern
1.3 km EHigh Dodd501 m · Far Eastern
2.1 km ENESleet Fell378 m · Far Eastern
2.7 km NNEGreen Hill - Gowbarrow Park439 m · Eastern
2.8 km WNWBrown Hills551 m · Eastern
2.8 km WNWSwineside Knott553 m · Eastern
2.8 km NNWRound How387 m · Eastern
2.9 km WHeron Pike (Glenridding)612 m · Eastern
3.0 km NNWBracken How373 m · Eastern
3.0 km NWCommon Fell552 m · Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Birk Fell (Bleaberry Knott - Birk Fell) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Aira Force (NT, paid) — 1.9 km from summit (straight line)
For Gowbarrow Fell and the path toward Great Dodd via Dockray.
Directions ↗
Glenridding (paid) — 2.0 km from summit (straight line)
Main Helvellyn-from-the-east base: Striding Edge, Catstye Cam, Birkhouse Moor; also Sheffield Pike, Glenridding Dodd.
Directions ↗

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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