⛰️ Birker Fell - Great Crag

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

333 mBirkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)+5 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.

0.9 km EBroad Crag - Birker Fell372 m · Southern
1.6 km NEGreat Whinscale427 m · Southern
1.6 km NECrook Crag469 m · Southern
1.9 km EBirker Fell - White How444 m · Southern
2.4 km NNEKepple Crag328 m · Southern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Birker Fell - Great Crag (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Devoke Water turning, Birker Fell road (verge) — 1.4 km from summit (straight line)
Rough free parking by the bridleway to Devoke Water for the Birker Fell group.
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Dalegarth Station, Eskdale (paid) — 3.3 km from summit (straight line)
Pay & display at the La'al Ratty terminus — Eskdale fells, Harter Fell, Green Crag.
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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

Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway (“La'al Ratty”)
Ravenglass (Cumbrian Coast main line) – Eskdale Green – Dalegarth for Boot
Catch it from: Connects from the Cumbrian Coast line (not from Penrith/Ambleside/Windermere directly)
Not a bus, but the only public transport into Eskdale. Wasdale has no public transport at all — car (or a long walk in) is the realistic option for the Wasdale fells.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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