320 mBirkett — Western (not a Wainwright summit)+4 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 Burn Edge (Strava)
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🅿️ Potential parking
Cold Fell road (verge) — 1.6 km from summit (straight line)
Verge parking on the Calder Bridge–Ennerdale road for Lank Rigg and Ponsonby Fell.
Directions ↗Wath Brow, Cleator Moor (roadside) — 3.8 km from summit (straight line)
Start of the Nannycatch/Dent paths for the far-western outliers.
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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- Buckbarrow
- Burnbank Fell
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- Crag Fell
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- Haycock
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