462 mBirkett — Central (not a Wainwright summit)+10 bonus Birketts within 3 km
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.
⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information
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🦶 My hikes over Brown Rigg (Strava)
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🅿️ Potential parking
Steel End, Thirlmere (paid) — 2.0 km from summit (straight line)
South end of Thirlmere for the Wythburn valley and Armboth fells.
Directions ↗Wythburn Church, Thirlmere (paid) — 2.1 km from summit (straight line)
Direct forest path up Helvellyn's south ridge (Comb Crags).
Directions ↗Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.
🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere
Stagecoach 555
Kendal – Staveley – Windermere – Ambleside – Rydal – Grasmere – Thirlmere (Wythburn & Swirls) – Keswick
Catch it from: Windermere · Ambleside
Year-round, roughly hourly. The backbone bus of the A591 — ideal for Helvellyn (Wythburn/Swirls), Fairfield, the Central fells and anything around Grasmere/Rydal. From Penrith, take the X4/X5 to Keswick and change.
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
- Armboth Fell (Armboth Fell South Top)
- Blea Rigg
- Bleaberry Fell
- Calf Crag
- Cat Bells (Catbells)
- Eagle Crag
- Gibson Knott
- Grange Fell (Brund Fell)
- Great Crag (Stonethwaite)
- Harrison Stickle
- Helm Crag
- High Raise (High White Stones)
- High Seat
- High Tove
- Loft Crag
- Pavey Ark
- Pike of Stickle
- Raven Crag
- Rosthwaite Fell - Bessyboot
- Sergeant Man
- Sergeant's Crag
- Silver How
- Steel Fell (Dead Pike - Steel Fell)
- Tarn Crag (Easedale)
- Thunacar Knott
- Ullscarf
- Walla Crag