⛰️ Bleaberry Fell

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

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

📖 Key Information

Bleaberry Fell at 590m (1,936ft) is a broad, heathery summit above Cat Bells and Derwent Water, giving one of the finest aerial views of the lake in the whole district. Wainwright praised the excellent view of Derwent Water from the summit — it spreads across the valley below with the Newlands fells behind in a composition of great beauty. The ascent from Keswick via Cat Bells ridge is excellent, with the lake view improving at every step. Combined naturally with High Seat for a longer circuit above Derwent Water. Particularly fine in autumn light.

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.

1.6 km ESECastle Crag (Shoulthwalte)404 m · Eastern
1.7 km EThe Benn (Sippling Crag)446 m · Eastern
2.9 km NEHigh Rigg (High Rigg South Top)343 m · Eastern
2.9 km ESEGreat How (Thirlmere)333 m · Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Bleaberry Fell (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Great Wood, Keswick (NT, paid) — 2.8 km from summit (straight line)
Under Walla Crag on the Borrowdale road.
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Legburthwaite (United Utilities, small) — 3.0 km from summit (straight line)
St John's in the Vale — Sticks Pass side, High Rigg, Raven 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

Stagecoach 78 “Borrowdale Rambler”
Keswick – Lodore – Grange – Rosthwaite – Seatoller
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 or X4/X5)
Year-round, frequent in season. Serves all the Borrowdale starts — Glaramara, the Scafells and Great Gable via Seathwaite (alight Seatoller, 20 min walk up the lane).
Stagecoach 555
Kendal – Staveley – Windermere – Ambleside – Rydal – Grasmere – Thirlmere (Wythburn & Swirls) – Keswick
Catch it from: Windermere · Ambleside
Year-round, roughly hourly. The backbone bus of the A591 — ideal for Helvellyn (Wythburn/Swirls), Fairfield, the Central fells and anything around Grasmere/Rydal. From Penrith, take the X4/X5 to Keswick and change.

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

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