⛰️ Brownthwaite Crag

444 m · Birkett — Far Eastern (not a Wainwright summit) · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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444 mBirkett — Far Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)+5 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.

0.7 km SSEGowk Hill471 m · Far Eastern
2.3 km SSERed Crag711 m · Far Eastern
2.4 km NNESwarth Fell (Ullswater)545 m · Far Eastern
2.5 km NWSleet Fell378 m · Far Eastern
2.9 km WNWHigh Dodd501 m · Far Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Brownthwaite Crag (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Martindale, St Peter's church (free, limited) — 3.1 km from summit (straight line)
Quiet side of Ullswater — Hallin Fell, Steel Knotts, Beda Fell, Pikeawassa.
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Patterdale (paid) — 4.8 km from summit (straight line)
For Place Fell, St Sunday Crag, the Grisedale fells.
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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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