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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 (Tue 28 Jul): 17° to 15°C, gusts to 37 mph, 3.8 mm of rain forecast.

Tue 28 Jul
🌦️
17° / 15°
💨 37 mph
🌧 3.8 mm (100%)
Wed 29 Jul
🌧️
17° / 13°
💨 30 mph
🌧 2.9 mm (100%)
Thu 30 Jul
🌦️
15° / 8°
💨 28 mph
🌧 1.2 mm (78%)
Fri 31 Jul
🌤️
16° / 3°
💨 23 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (78%)
Sat 1 Aug
🌦️
16° / 4°
💨 15 mph
🌧 2.1 mm (54%)
Sun 2 Aug
☁️
18° / 8°
💨 18 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (24%)
Mon 3 Aug
🌦️
18° / 9°
💨 12 mph
🌧 0.2 mm (23%)

Forecast snapshot from 28 Jul 2026, 04:58 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

About the walk

Key information

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.

Classifications & hill data
Birkett
364 m
Height
1,194 ft
In feet
SD 3030 9982
Grid ref

Map & nearby Birketts

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

Nearest parking: Tilberthwaite (free), about 1.2 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

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 145 fells.

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).

Tilberthwaite (free) — 1.2 km from summit (straight line)
Quarry car park for Wetherlam and the Tilberthwaite fells.
Directions
Coniston village (paid) — 2.2 km from summit (straight line)
Main village car parks — full Coniston round.
Directions
🚺 Coniston Bridge (50m)🚺 Coniston Ruskin Avenue Car Park (121m)☕ Sara's Indian☕ The Green Housekeeper☕ Steam Bistro🍺 The Yewdale Inn🍺 Crown Inn🍺 Sun Hotel Pub🏪 Coniston Gifts & Sports

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.

Buses to Brackeny Crag from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Stagecoach 505 “Coniston Rambler”
Windermere – Ambleside – Skelwith Bridge – Hawkshead – Coniston
Catch it from: Windermere · Ambleside
Daily in season (reduced winter service). Best access for the Coniston fells (Old Man, Wetherlam group).

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

Other fells near Brackeny Crag

Maps & guidebooks for Brackeny Crag

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