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

Caudale Moor - John Bell's Banner

Caudale Moor at 763m (2,503ft), also known as Stony Cove Pike, stands above the Kirkstone Pass with fine views of the Patterdale and Ambleside valleys.

755 m
Height
+1
Bonus Birkett
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755 mBirkett — Far Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)+1 bonus Birkett within 3 km

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

Modelled guidance for the 755 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 14° to 12°C, gusts to 39 mph, 15.9 mm of rain forecast.

Tue 28 Jul
🌧️
14° / 12°
💨 39 mph
🌧 15.9 mm (100%)
Wed 29 Jul
🌧️
14° / 11°
💨 31 mph
🌧 1.9 mm (100%)
Thu 30 Jul
🌦️
12° / 3°
💨 27 mph
🌧 0.9 mm (78%)
Fri 31 Jul
🌤️
14° / 1°
💨 24 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (78%)
Sat 1 Aug
🌦️
14° / 2°
💨 15 mph
🌧 3.0 mm (54%)
Sun 2 Aug
☁️
15° / 3°
💨 18 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (24%)
Mon 3 Aug
🌦️
15° / 4°
💨 12 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 755 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

Caudale Moor - John Bell's Banner

Caudale Moor at 763m (2,503ft), also known as Stony Cove Pike, stands above the Kirkstone Pass with fine views of the Patterdale and Ambleside valleys. Wainwright included it as a fell of interest for its position above the pass and the views it gives north to the Helvellyn range and south to Windermere. The summit area is broad and stony, with the two separate tops of Caudale Moor and Stony Cove Pike both worthy of a visit. Most naturally reached from Hartsop or from the Kirkstone Inn, combined with Thornthwaite Crag to the north.

Routes up Caudale Moor - John Bell's Banner

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

Caudale Moor & St Raven's Edge
13 km · ~3.8 hr
Classifications & hill data
Birkett
Synge
755 m
Height
2,477 ft
In feet
NY 4128 1008
Grid ref

Map & nearby Birketts

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

Nearest parking: Kirkstone Pass (laybys / inn), about 2.4 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Caudale Moor - John Bell's Banner (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.

1.8 km SSWSt Raven's Edge593 m · Far Eastern

Routes over Caudale Moor - John Bell's Banner

Caudale Moor & St Raven's EdgePlanned
12.96 km · ~724 m ascent · loop · ~3.5–5 h
Summits: Hartsop DoddStony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)Caudale Moor - John Bell's BannerSt Raven's Edge

⬇️ 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 Caudale Moor - John Bell's Banner

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

Kirkstone Pass (laybys / inn) — 2.4 km from summit (straight line)
High start for Red Screes (30 min!), Caudale Moor and Middle Dodd.
Directions
Hartsop village (free, donation) — 2.9 km from summit (straight line)
For Hartsop Dodd, Gray Crag, High Street via Hayeswater, Brock Crags.
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 Caudale Moor & St Raven's Edge route:

🚺 map (64 m)🚌 Road End (466 m)

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

Buses to Caudale Moor - John Bell's Banner from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

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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