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Blake Rigg (Little Langdale)

Short entry: no route or hazard notes for this fell yet.

Nearest route starts ↓
535 mBirkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)+10 bonus Birketts within 3 km

Blake Rigg at 535m (1,755ft) is a craggy Birkett top above the Little Langdale valley and the Wrynose Pass road, its rocky outcrops giving fine views across the valley to Lingmoor Fell and south to the Furness Fells.

Summit conditions on Blake Rigg (Little Langdale)

On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 12° to 6°C, gusts to 55 mph, 7.9 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.

Full 7-day summit forecast ↓

The forecast figures are Open-Meteo’s, worked out for the summit’s height. How we check →

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Parking & buses

Blake Rigg Little Langdale (verge, west)
0.7 km from summit (straight line)
Blake Rigg (verge)
1.0 km from summit (straight line)
Stagecoach 516 “Langdale Rambler”

Parking & buses ↓

Routes near Blake Rigg (Little Langdale)

No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest route starts we publish, in a straight line from the summit:

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Modelled for the 535 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

Full 7-day forecast
Tue 27 Oct
12° / 6°
55 mph
7.9 mm (100%)
Wed 28 Oct
10° / 6°
43 mph
12.5 mm (100%)
Thu 29 Oct
9° / 8°
28 mph
0.1 mm (33%)
Fri 30 Oct
9° / 6°
29 mph
0.0 mm (23%)
Sat 31 Oct
10° / 1°
13 mph
0.0 mm (18%)
Sun 1 Nov
9° / 1°
9 mph
0.0 mm (10%)
Mon 2 Nov
7° / 2°
19 mph
0.0 mm (0%)

Taken 27 October 2026, 08:13 UTC; the live forecast replaces it when it loads. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Parking & buses for Blake Rigg (Little Langdale)

Parking

Blake Rigg Little Langdale (verge, west) — 0.7 km from summit (straight line)
A verge on the Wrynose Pass road, 1.6 km west of Fell Foot at the head of Little Langdale (Lee's Street View pin). The 'Stonesty Pike, Great Knott & Wrynose Fell' route passes about 5 m away; it and 'Black Sails & Great How' start at the Wrynose Pass car park, 0.9 km away in a straight line (that car park sits too far from the mapped paths to measure a walk).
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Blake Rigg (verge) — 1.0 km from summit (straight line)
A verge on the Little Langdale valley road towards Wrynose, 600 m west of Fell Foot, under Blake Rigg (Lee's Street View pin). The 'Blea Tarn (Little Langdale)' route starts at the Blea Tarn car park, 1.4 km on foot and about 100 m up; the two routes from the Wrynose Pass car park start 1.8 km away in a straight line.
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Blake Rigg Little Langdale (verge, east) — 1.1 km from summit (straight line)
A verge on the Little Langdale valley road towards Wrynose, 530 m west of Fell Foot, under Blake Rigg (Lee's Street View pin). The 'Blea Tarn (Little Langdale)' route starts at the Blea Tarn car park, 1.4 km on foot and about 100 m up; the two routes from the Wrynose Pass car park start 1.8 km away in a straight line.
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2 more places to park near Blake Rigg (Little Langdale)
Blea Tarn (NT, paid) — 1.1 km from summit (straight line)
Between the Langdales — Lingmoor, Pike o' Blisco, Blake Rigg side. On Side Gates Road, the Blea Tarn road, about 170 m from the tarn's shore; the 'Blea Tarn (Little Langdale)' route starts here. Fees: pay and display; coins only (Lake District National Park car-parks directory, read September 2026). Free for NT members (checked August 2026).
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Wrynose Fell - Long Crag (verge, east) — 1.2 km from summit (straight line)
1.1 km from Wrynose Fell - Long Crag.
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Positions are approximate.

Vehicles are left at their owner’s risk: we list places people park and cannot vouch for any of them. Take valuables with you and leave nothing on show.

Buses

The 516 stops at Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, a 4.3 km walk from the nearest parking for this fell. We haven’t mapped a route up it, so we can’t tell you the walk from there to the start. Last bus: Monday to Thursday 21:10 towards Ambleside (516) and 20:10 towards Kendal (516); Friday 22:30 towards Kendal (516); Saturday 22:30 towards Kendal (516); Sunday 21:10 towards Ambleside (516) and 20:10 towards Kendal (516). Checked against the operator’s timetable, 23 September 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.

Stagecoach 516 “Langdale Rambler”
Ambleside – Skelwith Bridge – Elterwater – New Dungeon Ghyll – Old Dungeon Ghyll
Catch it from: Ambleside · Windermere (change at Ambleside)
The Langdale bus — Pikes, Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco all walkable from the Dungeon Ghyll stops. Seasonal frequency varies; check before relying on the last bus back.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

Getting there across the Lake District: Buses · Parking map · By train · By boat

Hazards on Blake Rigg (Little Langdale)

We have not written a hazard card for this fell yet, and that is not a sign that it is low-hazard. Check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected. The National Park Authority’s What to pack page, AdventureSmart’s hill walking kit list and Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s safety page are linked from our what to carry guide.

If you need Mountain Rescue

Dial 999 or 112 and ask for the Police, then Mountain Rescue.

Before you call, have ready: where you are (a grid reference if you can – the OS Locate app shows yours on your phone), what has happened, how many of you there are, and your mobile number.

Then stay where you are until the rescue team contacts you.

If you cannot make a voice call because of a hearing or speech impairment, emergency SMS works only if you have registered first: text “register” to 999.

From Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s guidance on calling them out (opens in new tab) (read 26 October 2026).

Map & nearby Birketts

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap, with SRTM elevation data (switch layers top-right).

Parking, toilets and buses: Parking & buses ↑.

Birketts within 3 km of Blake Rigg (Little Langdale)

These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits. Distances are straight lines: check the ground and access on a map before adding one.

0.5 km WWrynose Fell - Long Crag547 m · Southern
1.7 km NNESide Pike362 m · Southern
2.4 km SSEBirk Fell Man - Birk Fell528 m · Southern
2.5 km SEGreat Intake - Low Fell408 m · Southern
2.6 km WGreat Knott695 m · Southern
2.7 km SEHigh Fell (Hawk Rigg)428 m · Southern
2.8 km SWHell Gill Pike662 m · Southern
2.8 km SSEHawk Rigg441 m · Southern
2.8 km SSWLittle Carrs692 m · Southern
2.9 km SSEHaystacks (Tilberthwaite)423 m · Southern

On the hill: terrain and water on Blake Rigg (Little Langdale)

Terrain & access

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 v18.4 (CC BY 4.0); Copernicus GLO-30. CRoW access layer: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. See the terrain & access report for how this is worked out across all 144 fells.

About Blake Rigg (Little Langdale)

It stands 0.8 km west-south-west of Blea Tarn, on the east side of Pike of Blisco, and is a different top from the 423 m Blake Rigg above Tilberthwaite, 3.2 km to the south-south-east.

Classifications & hill data

Is Blake Rigg (Little Langdale) a Wainwright?

Blake Rigg (Little Langdale) is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett list and the Synge list.

Selected lists

535 m
Height
1,755 ft
In feet
NY 2852 0390
Grid ref

This is the summit’s grid reference. If you call from anywhere else, give your own position, not this one.

Lists, height and summit position from the Database of British and Irish Hills; the feet are converted from its metres and the grid reference from that position. How we check →

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