445 mBirkett — Far Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)+0 bonus Birketts within 3 km
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🎯 Bonus Birketts within 3 km
No bonus Birketts within 3 km — every Birkett near here is already a Wainwright summit, so just enjoy the walk.
⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information
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🦶 My hikes over Capple Howe (Strava)
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🅿️ Potential parking
Kentmere Institute (donation, very limited) — 2.6 km from summit (straight line)
Tiny — arrive by 8am or use the verges lower down. Kentmere Horseshoe: Yoke, Ill Bell, Froswick, Kentmere Pike.
Directions ↗Church Bridge, Troutbeck (limited) — 2.7 km from summit (straight line)
For Wansfell, Troutbeck Tongue and the Ill Bell ridge via Garburn Pass.
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.
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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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