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Birkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)Birkett top

Brackeny Crag

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

364 m
Height
+12
Bonus Birketts
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364 mBirkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)+12 bonus Birketts within 3 km

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

Modelled guidance for the 364 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Fri 11 Sep): 13° to 10°C, gusts to 32 mph, 2.1 mm of rain forecast.

Fri 11 Sep
🌦️
13° / 10°
💨 32 mph
🌧 2.1 mm (100%)
Sat 12 Sep
🌧️
16° / 11°
💨 46 mph
🌧 41.1 mm (100%)
Sun 13 Sep
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15° / 9°
💨 18 mph
🌧 0.2 mm (62%)
Mon 14 Sep
🌧️
16° / 8°
💨 29 mph
🌧 15.5 mm (100%)
Tue 15 Sep
🌦️
15° / 9°
💨 34 mph
🌧 5.8 mm (89%)
Wed 16 Sep
🌦️
12° / 10°
💨 29 mph
🌧 2.8 mm (78%)
Thu 17 Sep
🌦️
13° / 10°
💨 36 mph
🌧 6.4 mm (92%)

Forecast snapshot from 11 Sep 2026, 08:30 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 364 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.

Pro mountain forecasts: MWIS · Met Office mountain forecast

Brackeny Crag at a glance

Brackeny Crag

Brackeny Crag is a Birkett (one of the 541 tops in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells), a quiet Southern top reached by few walkers. It rises the Yewdale. The name comes from crag (Brittonic carreg, a rock or crag). Its nearest tops are Low Wythow (0.6 km S); High Wythow (0.8 km S); Long Crag - Yewdale Fells (1.0 km SW) — 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.

Getting there

🅿️ Holme Fell, south (layby)
Nearest fells: Holme Fell (0.8 km), Brackeny Crag (1.1 km), Low Wythow (1.3 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Unpaved surface (OSM-tagged).
🅿️ Tilberthwaite (paid)
Quarry car park for Wetherlam and the Tilberthwaite fells. It runs a long way along the road with no single entrance, so pull in wherever there is room rather than looking for a gateway. Fees: pay by app only (no cash) (LDNPA, checked Aug 2026).
🚌 Stagecoach 517 — the Little Langdale Shuttle
Ambleside ↔ Coniston via Clappersgate, Skelwith Bridge, Little Langdale and Yew Tree Tarn

Full parking & bus details ↓

Right now on the summit

🌦️ 13°low 10°C
Gusts32 mph

Full 7-day summit forecast →

Classifications & hill data

Birkett
364 m
Height
1,194 ft
In feet
SD 3030 9982
Grid ref

The short answers

Is Brackeny Crag a Wainwright?

Brackeny Crag is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett list.

Where do you park for Brackeny Crag?

The nearest car park we hold is Holme Fell, south (layby), about 1.1 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is Tilberthwaite (paid), 1.2 km out. We only look within 2.5 km, measured straight-line: over longer distances a road may cross a pass and the drive bears no relation to the line.

Routes up Brackeny Crag

No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest routes we publish start close by:

Parking & buses for Brackeny Crag

Best parking to hike Brackeny Crag

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

Holme Fell, south (layby) — 1.1 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Holme Fell (0.8 km), Brackeny Crag (1.1 km), Low Wythow (1.3 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Unpaved surface (OSM-tagged).
Directions Something changed here?
Tilberthwaite (paid) — 1.2 km from summit (straight line)
Quarry car park for Wetherlam and the Tilberthwaite fells. It runs a long way along the road with no single entrance, so pull in wherever there is room rather than looking for a gateway. Fees: pay by app only (no cash) (LDNPA, checked Aug 2026).
Directions Something changed here?
Blake Rigg car park (free) — 1.3 km from summit (straight line)
Community walk pages start here for 'Steel Edge and Wetherlam Edge, from Tilberthwaite' and 'A visit to Cathedral Cavern from Tilberthwaite' (community walk listings). Free (OSM-tagged). Compacted surface (OSM-tagged).
Directions Something changed here?
Glen Mary Bridge (NT, paid) — 1.8 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Holme Fell (1.0 km), Brackeny Crag (1.8 km), Low Wythow (1.9 km). Fees: pay and display (LDNPA directory, checked Aug 2026). Gravel surface (OSM-tagged). Free for NT members (checked Aug 2026).
Directions Something changed here?
Holme Fell, east (layby) — 2.0 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Holme Fell (0.8 km), Brackeny Crag (2.0 km). Free (OSM-tagged).
Directions Something changed here?

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.

Vehicles are left entirely at their owner’s risk. We list places people park; we cannot vouch for any of them. Judge it on the day: take valuables with you, leave nothing on show, and if a spot feels wrong when you get there, park somewhere else.

Getting to Brackeny Crag by bus

The 517 stops at Yew Tree Tarn (at), 1.7 km 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. We haven’t published last buses, Sunday or winter service yet, so check the timetable before you rely on getting back.

Stagecoach 517 — the Little Langdale Shuttle
Ambleside ↔ Coniston via Clappersgate, Skelwith Bridge, Little Langdale and Yew Tree Tarn
Catch it from: Ambleside · Coniston
The service the National Park names as the Little Langdale Shuttle; its stop list includes Little Langdale, outside Three Shires Inn. The only bus that puts Little Langdale itself within reach — Lingmoor Fell, Wetherlam from the east, Holme Fell and Black Fell. Frequency and season are not listed here because we have not verified a timetable — check Stagecoach before you rely on it.

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

Hazards on Brackeny Crag

No hazard card for this fell. The usual open-fell rules apply: check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected.

Map & nearby Birketts

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

Nearest parking: Holme Fell, south (layby), about 1.1 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Brackeny 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.

0.6 km SLow Wythow372 m · Southern
0.8 km SSWHigh Wythow410 m · Southern
1.0 km SSWLong Crag - Yewdale Fells421 m · Southern
1.1 km SWKitty Crag435 m · Southern
1.4 km NBlake Rigg (Tilberthwaite)423 m · Southern
1.6 km NHaystacks (Tilberthwaite)423 m · Southern
1.7 km NNWHawk Rigg441 m · Southern
1.9 km NHigh Fell (Hawk Rigg)428 m · Southern
2.0 km NNWBirk Fell Man - Birk Fell528 m · Southern
2.2 km WNWBlack Sails745 m · Southern
2.3 km NGreat Intake - Low Fell408 m · Southern
3.0 km WGreat How (Swirl Band)775 m · Southern

On the hill: terrain and water on Brackeny Crag

Terrain & access

A pathless top (about 364 m) — the nearest mapped path is about 309 m away, the open ground you’d cross to the summit (about 32 m of ascent, up to ~18°). 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 144 fells.

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