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Birkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)Birkett top

Birker Fell - Great Crag

Birker Fell - Great Crag is a Birkett (one of the 541 tops in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells), a quiet Southern top reached by few walkers.

333 m
Height
+5
Bonus Birketts
See routes & download GPX →
333 mBirkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)+5 bonus Birketts within 3 km

Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast

Modelled guidance for the 333 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 18° to 15°C, gusts to 32 mph, 1.5 mm of rain forecast.

Tue 28 Jul
🌦️
18° / 15°
💨 32 mph
🌧 1.5 mm (90%)
Wed 29 Jul
🌧️
16° / 13°
💨 26 mph
🌧 3.5 mm (98%)
Thu 30 Jul
🌦️
14° / 9°
💨 29 mph
🌧 2.8 mm (70%)
Fri 31 Jul
🌤️
16° / 5°
💨 23 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (73%)
Sat 1 Aug
🌦️
16° / 6°
💨 15 mph
🌧 3.3 mm (47%)
Sun 2 Aug
☁️
18° / 10°
💨 20 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (24%)
Mon 3 Aug
🌦️
19° / 9°
💨 15 mph
🌧 0.2 mm (17%)

Forecast snapshot from 28 Jul 2026, 04:58 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 333 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.

About the walk

Key information

Birker Fell - Great Crag

Birker Fell - Great Crag is a Birkett (one of the 541 tops in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells), a quiet Southern top reached by few walkers. The name combines birker (Old Norse birki, birch), and fell (Old Norse fjall, a mountain or hill), and great (Old English great, great or larger), and crag (Brittonic carreg, a rock or crag). Its nearest tops are Broad Crag - Birker Fell (0.9 km E); Great Worm Crag (1.2 km SE); Green Crag (1.4 km E) — it's usually taken in on a round of these neighbours. It's a worthwhile objective for anyone working through the Birkett list, or as a short extension to a bigger day on the higher neighbouring fells.

Routes up Birker Fell - Great Crag

Hand-mapped, with GPX to download — full maps further down.

Classifications & hill data
Birkett
333 m
Height
1,093 ft
In feet
SD 1863 9781
Grid ref

Map & nearby Birketts

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.

Nearest parking: Devoke Water turning, Birker Fell road (verge), about 1.6 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Birker Fell - Great Crag (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

Routes over Birker Fell - Great Crag

11.86 km · ~478 m ascent · loop · ~3–4.5 h · Moderate

✎️ Park on the verge at the Devoke Water turning on the Birker Fell road between Ulpha and Eskdale — a narrow, remote fell road, so come prepared and don't rely on a phone signal. It's a long walk in across open moor to the first top.

⬇️ Download GPX

Best season: Best after a dry spell and in clear weather — Birker Moor is rough, boggy and pathless in places, and easy to misread in low cloud.

Full route guide ↗

✎️ Planned route — drawn but not personally walked or checked yet.

A planned line is a suggestion, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate independently and carry a map & compass.

Terrain & access

A pathless top (about 333 m) — the nearest mapped path is about 558 m away, the open ground you’d cross to the summit (about 93 m of ascent, up to ~29°). The summit is on CRoW open access land.

Computed from open data, not walked — pathless ground needs confident navigation, and mapped paths, barriers and access boundaries can be incomplete. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (via Overpass); Natural England CRoW Access Land; DoBIH; Copernicus GLO-30. See the terrain & access report for how this is worked out across all 145 fells.

Best parking to hike Birker Fell - Great Crag

Where we have the data, each parking spot also shows the nearest public toilets and facilities (cafés, pubs, shops).

Devoke Water turning, Birker Fell road (verge) — 1.6 km from summit (straight line)
Rough free parking by the bridleway to Devoke Water for the Birker Fell group.
Directions (opens in new tab)
Dalegarth Station, Eskdale (paid) — 3.0 km from summit (straight line)
Pay & display at the La'al Ratty terminus — Eskdale fells, Harter Fell, Green Crag.
Directions (opens in new tab)

Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

Tip: pan and zoom the interactive map at the top of this page to spot other potential parking near your route.

Buses to Birker Fell - Great Crag 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 (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

Maps & guidebooks for Birker Fell - Great Crag

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