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339 mBirkett — Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)+8 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 NWWren Crag311 m · Eastern

1.2 km SWGreat How (Thirlmere)333 m · Eastern

1.7 km ENELittle Dodd (St John's Common)785 m · Eastern

1.7 km NNECalfhow Pike660 m · Eastern

2.0 km WSWThe Benn (Sippling Crag)446 m · Eastern

2.1 km SSEBrown Crag610 m · Eastern

2.3 km NWHigh Rigg (High Rigg South Top)343 m · Eastern

2.3 km WSWCastle Crag (Shoulthwalte)404 m · Eastern

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🅿️ Potential parking

Legburthwaite (United Utilities, small) — 0.5 km from summit (straight line)

St John's in the Vale — Sticks Pass side, High Rigg, Raven Crag.

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Swirls, Thirlmere (paid) — 2.7 km from summit (straight line)

The standard west-side route up Helvellyn via Browncove Crags.

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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 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.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

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