Brandreth

Written and walked by Lee McCoy · Summited April 2026

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715 mWainwright — Western Fells+4 bonus Birketts within 3 km Care needed in cloud

Brandreth at 715m (2,346ft) is a broad, grassy summit on the Gable ridge above Honister, giving excellent views of Great Gable and the Scafells from the north. The ascent from Honister is straightforward, combined naturally with Grey Knotts for a short but rewarding Honister circuit.

Summit conditions on Brandreth

On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 11° to 4°C, gusts to 64 mph, 6.7 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.

Against our lines, Tuesday 27 October: wind, cold and cloud from the Met Office UKV 2 km model (daylight hours, as in the verdict above); rain from the summit line’s forecast (the whole day). A tile is large when this top is past its line.

Wind on the top

Past the line

63 mph, our estimate for the open top in the worst daylight hour

The Met Office 2 km model’s gust of 52 mph times our exposure factor of 1.21. The summit line above gives Open-Meteo’s highest gust for the whole day, 64 mph, before any exposure factor.

The line Our line: 25 mph, where our wind Scale begins its 25–35 band: “balance affected; buffeting on exposed ground”. MWIS (opens in new tab) describes what wind does to a walker across a range rather than at a line: from about 20–25 mph it starts to affect your balance.

Estimated: it is not calibrated against summit readings, and the two forecasts can disagree by more than a band.

Rain, and the becks

Past the line

6.7 mm of rain over the whole day, midnight to midnight

The same figure as the summit line above and the 7-day forecast.

The line Our line: 6 mm in the day, where our scorer counts a day as soaking. We read rainfall, never river levels: becks in spate.

Open-Meteo’s forecast. It says nothing about rain already in the ground.

Also checked cold: feels like 0 °C, no ice or snow forecast; cloud: a clear-top reading of 33 out of 100, over our in-cloud line of 20. Under a line is not the same as fine: it means only that these figures are under the lines we use.

Not in these tiles Lightning, river levels, snow or ice already lying, and the ground under your feet. A tile cannot see them, so an empty space here never means they are absent.

Snow figures with a second opinion: Powered by Met Office data

Full 7-day summit forecast ↓

Wainwrights are scored for walking conditions each morning from the Met Office’s UK forecast model, read for each summit through Open-Meteo; 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)

Routes up Brandreth

Choose the way up before the car park: these three routes start from two places, and the last two rows give the parking and bus at each route’s own start. Full maps further down.

Compared	Great Gable from Honister Slate Mine	Haystacks	Black Star Brandreth and others
Starts from	Honister Slate Mine	Honister Pass (paid, slate mine)	Honister Slate Mine
Distance and climb	9.61 km, 721 m of climb	11.21 km, 792 m of climb	9.29 km, 629 m of climb
Time, fast to steady	~3–4¼ h	~3½–4¾ h	~2¾–4 h
Scrambling	Hands for a few steps: the north-west ridge from Beck Head, up to Great Gable's top (about km 5.3). Some easy hands-on ground on the north-west ridge above Beck Head; the bigger danger on Gable is navigational.	Hands for a few steps: the craggy east end and the summit rocks (km 2.4–5.5). Easy walking to the base; only the last few metres to the true summit are a short, sharp scramble on the sharp peak, and that final top can be skipped.	Not mentioned in the route’s notes
Exposure	Moderate	Moderate	Not assessed
Navigation	Severe	Hard	Hard
Steepest stretch	Climb of about 45% at 5.0 km (Severe)	Descent of about 31% at 10.7 km (Hard)	Descent of about 33% at 8.7 km (Hard)
After the summit	Over Grey Knotts	Over Grey Knotts	Over Grey Knotts
Walked or planned	Planned: drawn, not yet walked	Walked by Lee, April 2026	Walked in part; km 1.1–2.2, km 5.9–6.9 from the map
Car park at the start	Honister (NT, paid)	Honister Pass (paid, slate mine)	Honister Pass (paid, slate mine)
Bus to the start	77 at the start. Seasonal: the 77 does not run all year. 1 November 2026 is its last day.	77 at the start. Seasonal: the 77 does not run all year. 1 November 2026 is its last day.	77 at the start. Seasonal: the 77 does not run all year. 1 November 2026 is its last day.

Times run from fast to steady pace (Naismith’s rule). Scrambling quotes each route’s own notes; “not mentioned” means they do not say, not that the ground has none. Each route’s page has its map, stages and GPX.

Distance, climb and the steepest stretch are measured from each route’s GPX track; the other grades are set on the ground, judged from the map or estimated from OpenStreetMap, and each route page says which. How we check →

Is Brandreth a hard walk?

Not to climb — it is a broad, sodden plateau of a summit topped with a scatter of stones and old fence posts. The two things it asks of you are patience with bog and attention to your bearing.

The ground between Brandreth, Grey Knotts and Green Gable is among the boggiest around, and the top is high, shelterless and short of landmarks; the old fence posts help across the top, but take a bearing as well. The crags of Gillercomb drop away just to the east, so do not let a descent in cloud drift into that hollow. Our short round from Honister is 9.3 km with 629 m of ascent, graded hard for navigation.

How we check →

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Modelled for the 715 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

Full 7-day forecast

Tue 27 Oct

11° / 4°

64 mph

6.7 mm (100%)

Wed 28 Oct

8° / 5°

44 mph

12.6 mm (100%)

Thu 29 Oct

8° / 6°

27 mph

1.0 mm (26%)

Fri 30 Oct

8° / 6°

27 mph

0.1 mm (31%)

Sat 31 Oct

9° / 0°

9 mph

0.0 mm (25%)

Sun 1 Nov

8° / 0°

7 mph

0.0 mm (12%)

Mon 2 Nov

6° / 0°

17 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)

Pro mountain forecasts: MWIS · Met Office mountain forecast

Parking & buses for Brandreth

Parking

Route starts first, then the car parks nearest the summit, which are not always a way up.

Honister (NT, paid) — 0.1 km from the start of Great Gable from Honister Slate Mine (straight line)

Walking base for Great Gable, Green Gable, Brandreth and Grey Knotts — the 'Great Gable from Honister Slate Mine' route starts 61 m away. Also serves 'Haystacks'. Paid National Trust car park - the prices we used to show here came from an aggregator rather than the Trust, so we no longer publish a figure; check the machine on arrival, and members should bring their card (National Trust car-park list, checked August 2026). The machine takes cards, and National Trust members park free on production of their membership card (Lee McCoy, local observation, recorded 12 August 2026).

Directions Something changed here?

Honister Pass (paid, slate mine) — at the start of Haystacks and Black Star Brandreth and others

Paid parking at the top of the pass — Dale Head, Fleetwith Pike, Grey Knotts with minimal ascent. This is the slate mine's own car park, the WESTERN one; the National Trust car park 170 m east is a separate one. Fees: Day parking GBP 5 per day for visitors; free for all Honister activity guests (honister.com/your-visit/). Overnight parking GBP 15 a night in the large bottom car park, open to campervans, motorhomes and vans, no tent camping, no facilities, no electric hook-ups; book online or pay by QR code on arrival and display confirmation on the dashboard (honister.com/your-visit/overnight-parking) (operator, checked August 2026). You pay by card, inside the building, not at a machine in the car park. The posted opening is 9am but it is often later; the mine is content for you to arrive before it and pay on the way out, and the car park is covered by cameras (Lee McCoy, local observation, recorded 12 August 2026). Pay and display (LDNPA, checked August 2026).

Typically full before 10:00 on fine weekends, Apr-Oct — Lee McCoy, local observation, 9 August 2026.

Directions Something changed here?

If it is full: Seatoller (NT, paid) (2.4 km, 259 m up)

Public toilets (~136 m straight line) — Free Sky Hi Cafe

Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale (farm field, paid) — 2.1 km from summit (straight line)

The farm’s own field, signed off the lane — £5 all day, £10 overnight, no booking needed (the farm’s own page, read 21 September 2026; its notice is still headed 2025). A different place from the free verge on the same lane, and the reason not to race for a verge space. The farm opened it to ease the parking problems in the busy period.

Directions Something changed here?

2 more places to park near Brandreth

Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale (free verge) — 2.2 km from summit (straight line)

Free verge parking on the Seathwaite lane — the honeypot start for the Scafells, Great Gable and Glaramara. It fills early; the farm’s own field just down the lane takes the pressure off, and the lane needs to stay clear for residents, farm traffic and emergency vehicles.

Typically full before 09:00 on fine weekends, Apr-Oct — Lee McCoy, local observation, 9 August 2026.

Directions Something changed here?

If it is full: Honister Pass (paid, slate mine) (1.8 km); Seatoller (NT, paid) (2.0 km); Rosthwaite (NT, paid) (3.8 km)

Public toilets (~188 m straight line) — Free

Thornythwaite Fell (layby) — 2.3 km from summit (straight line)

Walking base for Allen Crags, High House Tarn Top (High House - Allen Crags), Red Beck Top (Glaramara South Top) (Lincomb Head - Glaramara) and Looking Steads (Glaramara) — the 'Allan Crags & Glaramara' route starts 135 m away. Also serves 'Scafell Pike via the Corridor Route'. Free (OSM-tagged). Unpaved surface (OSM-tagged).

Directions Something changed here?

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 77 stops at Honister Youth Hostel (near), a 140 m walk from the start of Great Gable from Honister Slate Mine — a route we rate Severe overall (hardest: steepness and navigation). Seasonal: the 77 does not run all year. 1 November 2026 is its last day. It returns on 22 March 2027. Confirmed with the operator: its last day on 29 August 2026, its return on 16 October 2026. The last bus is 18:33 towards Keswick (77), every day. Checked against the operator’s timetable, 12 September 2026; that timetable runs to 1 November 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.

Stagecoach 77 / 77A “Honister Rambler”

Keswick – Portinscale – Hawes End (Catbells) – Grange – Seatoller – Honister Pass – Buttermere – Lorton – Whinlatter – Keswick (circular)

Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 from Windermere/Ambleside or X4/X5 from Penrith)

Seasonal (Summer 2026 timetable: 23 March to 1 November 2026). Brilliant for the North Western fells: Catbells, Dale Head from Honister, the Buttermere fells and Whinlatter.

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 Brandreth

Hazard & Incident Information for Brandreth

Checked by Lee McCoy, 14 June 2026. Draws on published material from Keswick Mountain Rescue Team. Editorial background, not a live callout feed.

Hazard: Moderate

A boggy, fairly featureless top on the high ground between Honister and Great Gable, its summit a scatter of stones and rusted fence posts. The main hazard is navigation: in cloud the broad, sodden plateau is easy to misjudge, and the steep crags of neighbouring Gillercomb lie just to the east. The old fence posts help, but take a bearing as well. Keswick Mountain Rescue Team covers this ground.

Featureless boggy plateau (navigation): The broad top has few landmarks beyond the ruined fence posts, and the ground is wet and confusing in mist. Use the old fence posts as a guide, take a compass bearing, and don't trust a vague trod across the bog.
Gillercomb crags to the east: Steep crags drop into the deep bowl of Gillercomb just east of the col toward Grey Knotts. Don't drift down into the Gillercomb hollow in cloud — keep to the broad col and the gentle rise.
Deep bog & exposure: The ground between Brandreth and Green Gable / Grey Knotts is among the boggiest around, and this is high, shelterless ground. Pick careful lines, allow extra time, and dress for fast-changing high-fell weather.

Who should attempt this fell: Brandreth is gentle underfoot but a navigation fell — use the old fence posts as a guide and take a compass bearing in cloud so you don't drift toward the Gillercomb crags. Expect deep bog, allow time, and treat it as exposed winter ground when there is snow. There's little here to catch you if you wander, except the steep edge into Gillercomb.

What to watch for: Navigation errors on the featureless boggy plateau in cloud · Drifting toward or into the Gillercomb crags/hollow · Floundering in deep bog along the fence line · Exposure in poor weather on high open ground

Local Mountain Rescue: Keswick Mountain Rescue Team (opens in new tab)

Safety: Always check current conditions, carry proper navigation equipment, and seek qualified instruction before heading onto the fells. In an emergency, call 999, ask for Police, then Mountain Rescue.

Report incorrect information (opens in new tab)

Navigating in cloud

Care needed

Of the three things our terrain model measures, the highest reading here is the amount of near-level ground around the summit. Take care in poor visibility — carry map and compass, and know how to use them.

In winter — snow, whiteout, cornices, buried features — every top demands full winter navigation skills whatever its band, and a broad, gentle summit can be the worst place of all. See walking in bad weather and the navigation guide.

How Brandreth compares with all 214: the Clag Index (experimental).

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, GPX and 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 Brandreth

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

2.0 km SWKirk Fell East Top (Kirk Fell North Top)787 m · Western

2.2 km NHonister Crag (Black Star)634 m · Western

2.5 km SSESeathwaite Fell (Great Slack)631 m · Southern

2.8 km WLooking Stead (Pillar)628 m · Western

Routes over Brandreth

Black Star Brandreth and others

Summits: Honister Crag (Black Star)Fleetwith PikeBrandrethGrey Knotts

Download GPX Walked in part, April 2026 · km 1.1–2.2, km 5.9–6.9 from the map

Route guide: Black Star Brandreth and others →

Great Gable from Honister Slate Mine

Summits: Great Gable Green GableBrandrethGrey Knotts

Download GPX Planned route · not yet walked

Warnings: The summit plateau in cloud. Gable’s top is a broad sea of boulders with crags on several sides and no handrails. Take a bearing off the summit and follow it precisely — this is where the callouts start. Do not drift towards the Napes. The southern face is a climbers’ playground of crags and gullies, not a walkers’ descent. The Windy Gap descent is loose and steep. Take it slowly, especially in the wet. The route rounds the top of Gable Crag, with steep ground falling away on the Ennerdale/north side. Keep back from the edge, particularly in cloud or wind.

Route guide: Great Gable from Honister Slate Mine →

Haystacks

Summits: Fleetwith Pike Haystacks (Buttermere)BrandrethGrey Knotts

Download GPX Walked by Lee, April 2026

Picked for its light in: February A winter pick assumes the tops are clear of snow and ice on the day, or that you carry winter kit and know how to use it.

Warnings: The summit area of Haystacks is a maze of rocky knolls, tarns and boggy hollows — one of the most complex summit plateaux in Lakeland. In cloud it is very easy to lose the path and end up above steep crags. Do not attempt the summit in poor visibility unless you are a confident navigator with map and compass.

Route guide: Haystacks →

Every line here is a guide, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate for yourself and carry a map and compass. How to use this guide.

On the hill: terrain and water on Brandreth

Water & shelter on the way up

On the Black Star Brandreth and others route:

Honister Youth Hostel / Slate Quarry (E) (157 m from the start, straight line) bus stop (163 m from the start, straight line) Honister Pass YHA (112 m from the start, straight line)

On the Great Gable from Honister Slate Mine route:

Honister Youth Hostel / Slate Quarry (E) (88 m from the start, straight line) bus stop (91 m from the start, straight line) Honister Pass YHA (39 m from the start, straight line)

On the Haystacks route:

Honister Youth Hostel / Slate Quarry (E) (123 m from the start, straight line) bus stop (129 m from the start, straight line) Honister Pass YHA (77 m from the start, straight line)

On-route facilities © OpenStreetMap contributors, per route — an absent marker doesn’t mean none.

About Brandreth

The views of the Gable massif from this northern ridge are very fine.

Field notes

I can't even find a photo I took of the summit - it means I didn't take one. The route over from Haystacks was interesting and then became mundane as I approached this summit. I knew my route took me to the backside of the fell and then back around. With the weather conditions I had at the time it was safe to take the corner off that route and then, looking at my track, I found it difficult to find the true summit. The view to Base Brown is pleasant enough, but not the finest in the area.

— Lee McCoy, who walked it on 2 of our routes

My Strava hikes over Brandreth

1 logged hike pass over this summit:

A few more done in the sun (opens in new tab) — 11.3 km · 860 m ascent · 3h 22m moving · 7 April 2026

Data from Strava.

Classifications & hill data

Is Brandreth a Wainwright?

Brandreth is a Wainwright. It is also on the Birkett list, the Synge list, the Nuttall list, the Fellranger list and the Hewitt list.

Selected lists

715 m

Height

2,346 ft

In feet

NY 2145 1191

Grid ref

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

The summit is also a Birkett.

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 →

The view from Brandreth

The 360° skyline from Brandreth

A computed 360° skyline — every visible named top labelled by distance and bearing, from the terrain model in perfect clarity, not photographed. Drag to pan; reveal the far four-nations horizon.

drag to pan · arrow keys

The skyline as a list, by direction

North: Crag Hill (9 km), Grisedale Pike (11 km), Skiddaw Lesser Man (17 km), Skiddaw Little Man (17 km), Skiddaw South Top (17 km), Skiddaw Middle Top (18 km), Skiddaw (18 km)
North-east: Raise (14 km), Watson's Dodd (14 km), Stybarrow Dodd (15 km), Great Dodd (15 km), Green Side (15 km), Knowe Crags (18 km), Gategill Fell Top (19 km), Blencathra (19 km), Atkinson Pike (20 km)
East: Helvellyn Lower Man (13 km), High Crag (13 km), Nethermost Pike (13 km), Helvellyn (13 km), White Side (13 km), Dollywaggon Pike (13 km), Fairfield (14 km), Cofa Pike (14 km), Dove Crag (16 km), Rampsgill Head (23 km)
South-east: Esk Pike (5 km), Bowfell (6 km)
South: Great Gable (2 km), Great End (4 km), Ill Crag (5 km)
West: Pillar (4 km), Black Crag (5 km), Red Pike (5 km), Scoat Fell (6 km), Steeple (6 km), Haycock (7 km)
North-west: High Stile (5 km), High Stile (6 km), Grasmoor (9 km)

On the clearest days the far horizon adds: Merrick (108 km, Scotland), Cairnsmore of Carsphairn (106 km, Scotland), Corserine (104 km, Scotland), Lamachan Hill (102 km, Scotland), Yr Eifl (188 km, Wales), White Coomb (103 km, Scotland), Cairnsmore [Black Craig of Dee] (90 km, Scotland), Agnew's Hill (180 km, Ireland).

Computed from Copernicus GLO-30 terrain; distant tops from the Database of British and Irish Hills v18.4 (opens in new tab) (CC BY 4.0). See how we compute the view · and the summit intervisibility report below.

Sunrise and sunset on Brandreth

Brandreth sits close to the flat-horizon case. Even on its longest wait of the modelled year (on 1 February) first light is only 7 minutes after almanac sunrise, so the published sunrise time is a fair guide here.

Midsummer. The filled shape is the skyline as seen from the summit; the line is the sun’s path. Where they meet is first light — everything left of that point is the wait.

Times for 2026, in Lakeland clock time (GMT in winter, BST in summer) — and model outputs rather than observations.
	First light	Almanac sunrise	Difference
Midsummer	04:34 BST ±5.0 min	04:37	-3 min
Equinox	06:18 GMT ±5.0 min	06:16	+2 min
Midwinter	08:29 GMT ±5.0 min	08:33	-4 min

A low, open northern horizon — the ground falls away northwards (mean -0.05°).

Last light — when the sun leaves Brandreth

The evening here runs close to the flat-horizon case. Even on its earliest evening of the modelled year (on 1 December) last light is only 14 minutes before almanac sunset, so the published sunset time is a fair guide on Brandreth.

The evening of the same three days. A negative difference means a ridge takes the sun before the valley loses it.
	Last light	Almanac sunset	Difference
Midsummer	21:57 BST ±5.0 min	21:53	+4 min
Equinox	18:17 GMT ±5.0 min	18:27	-10 min
Midwinter	15:39 GMT ±5.0 min	15:50	-11 min

These are daylight figures, not a descent plan: the light goes on fading for a good while after the sun leaves, and going down in it is a decision about your own ground and party, not about this table.

What you can see from Brandreth

On a clear day — computed sightlines, curvature- and refraction-corrected.

69Wainwrights in view+14 marginal

109 kmFurthest sightlineMerrick · possible under favourable refraction

1Sea in viewIrish Sea

On the clearest days the view reaches across to Scotland.

Far horizons

Merrick ScotlandNW · 109 km clear
Ingleborough Yorkshire DalesSE · 65 km clear
Irish Sea open waterSW · 48 km in view

All 69 Wainwrights in clear view (nearest first)

Grey Knotts, Green Gable, Base Brown, Great Gable, Seathwaite Fell (Wainwright summit), Kirk Fell, Fleetwith Pike, Haystacks (Buttermere), Glaramara, Great End, Allen Crags, High Crag (Buttermere), Pillar, Rosthwaite Fell - Bessyboot, High Spy, Esk Pike, Red Pike (Wasdale), Robinson, Scoat Fell (Little Scoat Fell), High Stile, Steeple, Sergeant's Crag, Eagle Crag, Bowfell, Great Crag (Stonethwaite), Grange Fell (Brund Fell), Haycock, High Raise (High White Stones), Ullscarf, Whiteless Pike, Ard Crags, Rannerdale Knotts, Harrison Stickle, Wandope, Illgill Head, Sail, Crag Hill (Eel Crag), Scar Crags, High Tove, Armboth Fell (Armboth Fell South Top), Grasmoor, Mellbreak (Mellbreak South Top), High Seat, Great Borne, Bleaberry Fell, Whin Rigg (Wasdale), Grisedale Pike, Walla Crag, Crag Fell, Seat Sandal, Nethermost Pike, Grike, Helvellyn, White Side, Dollywaggon Pike, Low Fell, Raise, Great Rigg, Fairfield, Stybarrow Dodd, Fellbarrow - Mosser Fell, Dove Crag, High Pike (Scandale), Red Screes, Froswick, Rampsgill Head, Yoke, Kidsty Pike, Carrock Fell

How the view from Brandreth compares with all 214 — the View Report: every Wainwright ranked by what you can see from the top.

How the skyline, light and sightlines are computed

Computed, not photographed. First light is the first minute the sun’s upper limb clears this summit’s own skyline and last light the last minute it is still clear of it, both solved against the 360° horizon profile behind The View from Brandreth. Almanac sunrise and sunset are the flat-horizon convention. Every time carries a ± band from the 30 m elevation model — it smooths arêtes and cornices, so nothing here claims better than five minutes.

Sightlines from the Copernicus GLO-30 elevation model, which is a surface model: each 30 m cell holds the top of whatever stands there, trees and buildings included, rather than bare ground. Corrected for the Earth’s curvature and average atmospheric refraction. “Distant” sightlines and any over 100 km depend on exceptionally clear air. Modelled from Copernicus GLO-30 open elevation data — a guide to the view, not a guarantee of any single one.

Places to stay near this fell

Seatoller House (opens in new tab) guest houseabout 2.0 km

Also nearby, but not independent

YHA Borrowdale (opens in new tab) hostelabout 3.1 km

We have not stayed at any of them. We take no bookings or affiliate fees. Distances are straight lines from each route start, never walking times. Properties found via OpenStreetMap (opens in new tab).

Frequently asked questions about Brandreth

Is Brandreth a hard walk? Answered above.

Questions from Google’s “People also ask”. · Last updated 2026-08-30 · Suggest a question or correction (opens in new tab)

Brandreth

Summit conditions on Brandreth

Wind on the top

Rain, and the becks

Routes up Brandreth

Is Brandreth a hard walk?

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Parking & buses for Brandreth

Parking

Buses

Hazards on Brandreth

Hazard & Incident Information for Brandreth

Navigating in cloud

If you need Mountain Rescue

Map, GPX and nearby Birketts

Birketts within 3 km of Brandreth

Routes over Brandreth

On the hill: terrain and water on Brandreth

Water & shelter on the way up

About Brandreth

Field notes

My Strava hikes over Brandreth

Classifications & hill data

Is Brandreth a Wainwright?

Selected lists

The view from Brandreth

The 360° skyline from Brandreth

Sunrise and sunset on Brandreth

Last light — when the sun leaves Brandreth

What you can see from Brandreth

Places to stay near this fell

Frequently asked questions about Brandreth

Other fells near Brandreth