⛰️ Castle Crag (Mardale)

📖 Key Information

Artle Crag at 344m (1,129ft) is one of the lower Far Eastern Fells, a modest summit above Swindale with views east across the Shap Fells. Wainwright included it as part of the remote Haweswater eastern shore area, noting its quiet, unhurried character. The ascent from Swindale is across open moorland. A fell for those who enjoy the sense of remoteness of the eastern Lake District.

🎯 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.

🦶 My hikes over Castle Crag (Mardale) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

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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• 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
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