⛰️ Bracken How

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

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373 mBirkett — Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)+10 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.

0.3 km SSWRound How387 m · Eastern
1.2 km WSWCommon Fell552 m · Eastern
1.6 km EGreen Hill - Gowbarrow Park439 m · Eastern
1.9 km WNWLow How497 m · Eastern
1.9 km SWSwineside Knott553 m · Eastern
2.2 km SWBrown Hills551 m · Eastern
2.5 km ENEGreat Meldrum437 m · Eastern
2.5 km WHigh Brow575 m · Eastern
2.7 km SELow Birk Fell373 m · Far Eastern
3.0 km SSEBirk Fell (Bleaberry Knott - Birk Fell)512 m · Far Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Bracken How (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Aira Force (NT, paid) — 1.2 km from summit (straight line)
For Gowbarrow Fell and the path toward Great Dodd via Dockray.
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Dockray (roadside) — 1.3 km from summit (straight line)
Verge parking for the Dodds and Matterdale Common.
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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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