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Birkett — Far Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)Birkett top

Capple Howe

Capple Howe at 445m (1,460ft) is a Birkett top on the moorland above Kentmere in the Far Eastern Fells, its grassy summit giving views across the Kentmere valley and towards the High Street ridge.

445 m
Height
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Bonus Birketts
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445 mBirkett — Far Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)+0 bonus Birketts within 3 km

Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast

Modelled guidance for the 445 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 16° to 15°C, gusts to 25 mph, 4.4 mm of rain forecast.

Tue 28 Jul
🌧️
16° / 15°
💨 25 mph
🌧 4.4 mm (100%)
Wed 29 Jul
🌦️
17° / 13°
💨 28 mph
🌧 0.4 mm (100%)
Thu 30 Jul
🌦️
15° / 6°
💨 26 mph
🌧 0.6 mm (78%)
Fri 31 Jul
🌤️
16° / 2°
💨 26 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (78%)
Sat 1 Aug
🌦️
16° / 4°
💨 16 mph
🌧 3.6 mm (54%)
Sun 2 Aug
☁️
17° / 6°
💨 18 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (24%)
Mon 3 Aug
🌦️
18° / 7°
💨 17 mph
🌧 0.2 mm (23%)

Forecast snapshot from 28 Jul 2026, 04:58 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 445 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.

Pro mountain forecasts: MWIS · Met Office mountain forecast

About the walk

Key information

Capple Howe

Capple Howe at 445m (1,460ft) is a Birkett top on the moorland above Kentmere in the Far Eastern Fells, its grassy summit giving views across the Kentmere valley and towards the High Street ridge. Part of the high ground east of Kentmere Reservoir. A remote and quiet fell in the seldom-visited eastern valleys.

Routes up Capple Howe

Hand-mapped, with GPX to download — full maps further down.

Capple Howe & Sallows
8.7 km · ~2.5 hr
Classifications & hill data
Birkett
Synge
445 m
Height
1,460 ft
In feet
NY 4321 0289
Grid ref

Map & nearby Birketts

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.

Nearest parking: Church Bridge, Troutbeck (limited), about 2.0 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Capple Howe (within 3 km)

No bonus Birketts within 3 km — every Birkett near here is already a Wainwright summit, so just enjoy the walk.

Routes over Capple Howe

Capple Howe & SallowsPlanned
8.68 km · ~480 m ascent · loop · ~2.5–3.5 h
Summits: Sour HowesCapple HoweSallows

⬇️ Download GPX

Full route guide ↗

✎️ Planned route — drawn but not personally walked or checked yet.

A planned line is a suggestion, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate independently and carry a map & compass.

Best parking to hike Capple Howe

Where we have the data, each parking spot also shows the nearest public toilets and facilities (cafés, pubs, shops).

Church Bridge, Troutbeck (limited) — 2.0 km from summit (straight line)
For Wansfell, Troutbeck Tongue and the Ill Bell ridge via Garburn Pass.
Directions
🚺 Public toilets (423m) — Free🚺 Public toilets (1904m) — Free☕ The Old Post Office
Kentmere Institute (donation, very limited) — 2.4 km from summit (straight line)
Tiny — arrive by 8am or use the verges lower down. Kentmere Horseshoe: Yoke, Ill Bell, Froswick, Kentmere Pike.
Directions

Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

Tip: pan and zoom the interactive map at the top of this page to spot other potential parking near your route.

Water & shelter on the way up

On the Capple Howe & Sallows route:

🚌 Jesus Church at Corfoot Beck (17 m)🚌 Nursery School (141 m)🚌 Limefitt Park (305 m)🚌 Limefitt Park Camp Site (314 m)

On-route facilities © OpenStreetMap contributors, per route — an absent marker doesn’t mean none.

Buses to Capple Howe 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.
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.

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