Brant Fell
Brant Fell at 191m (627ft) is the rocky little top rising directly behind Bowness-on-Windermere, and among the most accessible of all Wainwright's Outlying Fells.
Summit conditions on Brant Fell
On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 14° to 8°C, gusts to 40 mph, 5.0 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.
The forecast figures are Open-Meteo’s, worked out for the summit’s height. How we check →
Routes up Brant Fell
Hand-mapped, with GPX to download — full maps further down.
Distance and climb are measured from the route’s GPX track, and the time from them by Naismith’s rule; the route page says what each grade rests on. How we check →
How hard is Brant Fell?
The shortest way up we hold is Brant Fell from Bowness — 2.86 km, 161 m of ascent, ~¾–1¼ h. On our scale its hardest axes are steepness and navigation — Moderate.
All axes: steepness: Moderate · navigation: Moderate · length: Easy · terrain: Not assessed · exposure: Not assessed.
These are the route page’s grades, set by the rules on how we grade: length and steepness measured from its GPX track, the others set on the ground, judged from the map or estimated from OpenStreetMap. The route page says which. How we check →
Conditions and 7-day summit forecast
Modelled for the 191 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
Full 7-day forecast
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)
Parking & buses for Brant Fell
Parking
Route starts first, then the car parks nearest the summit, which are not always a way up.
3 more places to park near Brant Fell
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 6, 508, 555, 599 and 755 stop at Bowness Pier (outside), a 10 m walk from the start of Brant Fell from Bowness — a route we rate Moderate overall (hardest: steepness and navigation). We haven’t published last buses, Sunday or winter service yet, so check the timetable before you rely on getting back.
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 Brant Fell
Notes from a planned route, not walked: Brant Fell from Bowness
- About 0.6 km at each end is on town streets: the Promenade and Lake Road (the A592), St Martins Hill and Brantfell Road. OpenStreetMap maps pavements beside the Promenade, Lake Road and St Martins Hill and on one side of the lower part of Brantfell Road, and records none on its last 0.1 km.
- From the kissing gate by the Post Knott viewpoint at about 1.02 km to the top, and from the top down to the public footpath at about 1.8 km, about 0.7 km in all, the line follows paths that OpenStreetMap does not record as public rights of way; it maps the first of them as permissive. The top is not in Natural England’s open access layer. That is a map-data note, not a ruling on access: check the access land and rights of way maps before relying on this stretch.
If you need to get off (the leg from Bowness Pier): Back the way you came, never more than about 1.5 km to the pier; from the top, the line on past Brantfell Farm is about 1.4 km to the pier.
Quoted from the route page of a planned route, drawn from the map and not yet walked: its warnings and the note for the leg that reaches Brant Fell.
We have not written a hazard card for this fell yet, and that is not a sign that it is low-hazard. Read the warnings on the route pages that climb it, check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected. The National Park Authority’s What to pack page, AdventureSmart’s hill walking kit list and Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s safety page are linked from our what to carry guide.
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
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap, with SRTM elevation data (switch layers top-right).
Parking, toilets and buses: Parking & buses ↑.
Birketts within 3 km of Brant Fell
No bonus Birketts within 3 km.
Routes over Brant Fell
A planned line, drawn from the map; not yet walked. It starts at the bus stop by Bowness Pier; the town's pay car parks at Glebe Road and Rayrigg Road are about 0.4 km away.
Download GPX Planned route · not yet walked
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 Brant Fell
Terrain & access
A 191 m top with a mapped path to within about 6 m of the summit.
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 v18.4 (CC BY 4.0); Copernicus GLO-30. See the terrain & access report for how this is worked out across all 144 fells.
Water & shelter on the way up
On the Brant Fell from Bowness route:
On-route facilities © OpenStreetMap contributors, per route — an absent marker doesn’t mean none.
Access on Brant Fell
Access: no access land or recorded right of way is mapped to this summit, but an established path to it is described by several independent published walks (checked 29 July 2026). That is evidence of long use, not a legal right: follow the signs and any closures on the ground. The upper lane is private, with public access allowed.
How we worked out the access
Summit and approach positions are tested against Natural England’s CRoW Act 2000 access layer; rights of way and wall or fence detail come from OpenStreetMap. Both are open datasets with known gaps — in our own survey only 4 of 26 wall and fence crossings had a stile or gate mapped within 150 m — so absence of a mapped feature never means absence of a real one. Nothing here is field-verified unless marked, and none of it is legal advice. How we checked 377 fells.
Access land: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
About Brant Fell
Classifications & hill data
Is Brant Fell a Wainwright?
Brant Fell is one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells, not one of the 214 in the Pictorial Guides.
Selected lists
This is the summit’s grid reference. If you call from anywhere else, give your own position, not this one.
The summit is not a Birkett top.
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 →