⛰️ Brock Crags (Wainwright)

561 m · Wainwright — Eastern Fells · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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561 mWainwright — Eastern Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+1 bonus Birkett within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Brock Crags at 561m (1,841ft) is a craggy little summit above Hayeswater, sitting between Angletarn Pikes and Rest Dodd on the ridge above Patterdale. Wainwright noted its fine views across to the High Street range and down to Hayeswater — one of the most secluded of the Lakeland tarns. The summit is most naturally reached as part of the Hayeswater circuit from Hartsop, combined with The Knott and Rest Dodd. A pleasant, quiet fell that rewards those who explore the less-travelled ridges above Patterdale.

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.

2.7 km WSWGale Crag512 m · Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Brock Crags (Wainwright) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Hartsop village (free, donation) — 1.2 km from summit (straight line)
For Hartsop Dodd, Gray Crag, High Street via Hayeswater, Brock Crags.
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Cow Bridge, Hartsop (free) — 1.6 km from summit (straight line)
Free car park by Brothers Water — Hartsop above How, Dovedale, Caudale Moor.
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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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