⛰️ Broom Fell

510 m · Wainwright — North Western Fells · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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510 mWainwright — North Western Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+9 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Broom Fell at 509m (1,670ft) is a grassy summit above Lorton Vale in the north-western corner of the Lake District, giving wide views across Bassenthwaite Lake and north towards the Solway. Wainwright included it as part of the Lord's Seat group, noting its pleasant, open character. The ascent from Thornthwaite is short and easy. Most naturally combined with Lord's Seat and Graystones for a circuit of the northern North Western Fells.

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.

1.4 km NNWBurthwaite Heights318 m · North Western
1.7 km SEUllister Hill525 m · North Western
1.9 km WSWGraystones455 m · North Western
2.0 km SSETarbarrel Moss493 m · North Western
2.2 km SWhinlatter Top525 m · North Western
2.3 km SESeat How (Thornthwaite)495 m · North Western
2.3 km WSWKirk Fell (Lorton)437 m · Western
2.4 km NRivings335 m · Northern
2.7 km NNELothwaite345 m · Northern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Broom Fell (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Whinlatter Visitor Centre (paid) — 2.9 km from summit (straight line)
Forest centre — Lord's Seat, Barf, Whinlatter fells, Grisedale Pike's back route.
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Dodd Wood (paid) — 4.1 km from summit (straight line)
Forestry car park for Dodd, Carl Side and the Ullock Pike ridge onto Skiddaw.
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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 77 / 77A “Honister Rambler”
Keswick – Portinscale – Hawse 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 (roughly Easter–October). Brilliant for the North Western fells: Catbells, Dale Head from Honister, the Buttermere fells and Whinlatter.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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