⛰️ Birkhouse Moor

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

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718 mWainwright — Eastern Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+4 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Birkhouse Moor at 718m (2,356ft) is the long, grassy shoulder south of Glenridding that forms the approach ridge to Striding Edge and Helvellyn from Patterdale. Wainwright noted it as a fell that rewards those who pause on the busy Helvellyn path — the views south along Ullswater from the ridge are excellent, and the summit cairn gives a fine prospect of the eastern Helvellyn crags and Red Tarn cove above. Most walkers pass through it automatically on the Patterdale-Striding Edge approach. Worth a separate visit for Ullswater views when Helvellyn is cloud-capped.

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.

2.1 km NNEHeron Pike (Glenridding)612 m · Eastern
2.6 km WHelvellyn Lower Man924 m · Eastern
2.7 km SSEGavel Pike784 m · Eastern
3.0 km NNWGreen Side (White Stones - Green Side)794 m · Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Birkhouse Moor (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Glenridding (paid) — 2.5 km from summit (straight line)
Main Helvellyn-from-the-east base: Striding Edge, Catstye Cam, Birkhouse Moor; also Sheffield Pike, Glenridding Dodd.
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Patterdale (paid) — 3.4 km from summit (straight line)
For Place Fell, St Sunday Crag, the Grisedale 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 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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