529 mBirkett — Far Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)+3 bonus Birketts within 3 km
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🎯 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.
⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information
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🦶 My hikes over Brown Howe (Mardale) (Strava)
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🅿️ Potential parking
Mardale Head, Haweswater (free) — 2.6 km from summit (straight line)
Free but small and fills very early — High Street, Harter Fell, Kidsty Pike, Branstree.
Directions ↗Wet Sleddale dam (free) — 3.6 km from summit (straight line)
For the quiet Shap-side fells: Seat Robert, Sleddale fells.
Directions ↗Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.
🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere
No regular bus serves the start points for this fell — this is one for the car (or a long approach from the nearest served valley). The nearest hubs are Penrith (X4/X5 & 508), Ambleside and Windermere (555, 505, 516).
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
🌦️ 7-day summit forecast
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Other fells in this region
- Baystones (Wansfell)
- Beda Fell (Beda Head)
- Branstree
- Froswick
- Gray Crag
- Grey Crag (Sleddale Fell)
- Harter Fell (Mardale)
- Hartsop Above How (Gill Crag - Hartsop Above How)
- Hartsop Dodd
- High Hartsop Dodd
- High Raise (High Street)
- High Street
- Ill Bell
- Kentmere Pike
- Kidsty Pike
- Little Hart Crag (Little Hart Crag - West Top)
- Loadpot Hill
- Mardale Ill Bell
- Middle Dodd
- Rampsgill Head
- Rest Dodd
- Sallows
- Selside Pike
- Shipman Knotts
- Sour Howes
- Steel Knotts (Pikeawassa - Steel Knotts)
- Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)
- Tarn Crag (Sleddale)
- The Knott (High Street)
- The Nab
- Thornthwaite Crag
- Troutbeck Tongue
- Wether Hill
- Yoke