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Clints Crags (Wainwright summit)

Short entry: no route or hazard notes for this fell yet.

245 mOutlying Fell — Northern Outliers

Clints Crags at 245m (804ft) is a small Outlying Fell above Blindcrake, north-east of Cockermouth, its modest summit giving views across the Solway Firth to the Scottish hills. Wainwright included it in The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.

Summit conditions on Clints Crags (Wainwright summit)

On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 14° to 8°C, gusts to 55 mph, 3.6 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.

Full 7-day summit forecast ↓

The forecast figures are Open-Meteo’s, worked out for the summit’s height. How we check →

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Parking & buses

Clints Crags (layby)
1.4 km from summit (straight line)
Watch Hill car park (free)
1.9 km from summit (straight line)
Stagecoach 554

Parking & buses ↓

No routes yet

No route guide for this fell yet.

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Modelled for the 245 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

Full 7-day forecast
Tue 27 Oct
14° / 8°
55 mph
3.6 mm (100%)
Wed 28 Oct
12° / 9°
36 mph
3.2 mm (100%)
Thu 29 Oct
13° / 9°
21 mph
0.7 mm (6%)
Fri 30 Oct
12° / 8°
21 mph
0.0 mm (9%)
Sat 31 Oct
9° / 3°
6 mph
0.0 mm (12%)
Sun 1 Nov
10° / 4°
17 mph
1.5 mm (2%)
Mon 2 Nov
7° / 0°
11 mph
0.0 mm (0%)

Taken 27 October 2026, 20:59 UTC; the live forecast replaces it when it loads. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Parking & buses for Clints Crags (Wainwright summit)

Parking

Clints Crags (layby) — 1.4 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Clints Crags (Wainwright summit) (1.4 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Gravel surface (OSM-tagged).
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Watch Hill car park (free) — 1.9 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Watch Hill (Setmurthy Common) (1.5 km), Watch Hill (1.9 km), Clints Crags (Wainwright summit) (1.9 km). Free (OSM-tagged).
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Redmain (layby) — 2.0 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest published walking: 2.0 km from Clints Crags (Wainwright summit). Free (OSM-tagged). Compacted surface (OSM-tagged).
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2 more places to park near Clints Crags (Wainwright summit)
Watch Hill, north (layby) — 2.1 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Watch Hill (Setmurthy Common) (1.4 km), Watch Hill (1.9 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Unpaved surface (OSM-tagged).
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Moota (layby) — 2.5 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest published walking: 2.5 km from Clints Crags (Wainwright summit). Free (OSM-tagged). Ground surface (OSM-tagged).
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Positions are approximate.

Vehicles are left at their owner’s risk: we list places people park and cannot vouch for any of them. Take valuables with you and leave nothing on show.

Buses

The 554 stops at Bewaldeth, on road end, a 4.3 km walk from the nearest parking for this fell. We haven’t mapped a route up it, so we can’t tell you the walk from there to the start. We haven’t published last buses, Sunday or winter service yet, so check the timetable before you rely on getting back.

Stagecoach 554
Carlisle to Keswick via Dalston, Thursby, Wigton, Bothel and Bewaldeth, then the west shore of Bassenthwaite Lake (Castle Inn, High Side, Ravenstone, Osprey View Point) and the Portinscale road ends
Catch it from: Keswick · Carlisle
Seven days a week on the current timetable: eight journeys each way Monday to Friday and on Sundays, ten on Saturdays, run by Stagecoach Cumbria and North Lancashire. The Carlisle side's way into the Northern fells without a car - Castle Inn and the Village turn for Binsey and the Uldale fells (Brae Fell, Little Sca Fell, Meal Fell), the Bassenthwaite Lake stops for Skiddaw, Dodd, Carl Side and Long Side, High Side Farm for Bakestall, The Pheasant for Latrigg and Lonscale Fell. Every stop's times are on this site's 554 page under Buses; last buses home are shown only where we have checked them.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

Getting there across the Lake District: Buses · Parking map · By train · By boat

Hazards on Clints Crags (Wainwright summit)

We have not written a hazard card for this fell yet, and that is not a sign that it is low-hazard. Check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected. The National Park Authority’s What to pack page, AdventureSmart’s hill walking kit list and Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s safety page are linked from our what to carry guide.

If you need Mountain Rescue

Dial 999 or 112 and ask for the Police, then Mountain Rescue.

Before you call, have ready: where you are (a grid reference if you can – the OS Locate app shows yours on your phone), what has happened, how many of you there are, and your mobile number.

Then stay where you are until the rescue team contacts you.

If you cannot make a voice call because of a hearing or speech impairment, emergency SMS works only if you have registered first: text “register” to 999.

From Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s guidance on calling them out (opens in new tab) (read 26 October 2026).

Map & nearby Birketts

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap, with SRTM elevation data (switch layers top-right).

Parking, toilets and buses: Parking & buses ↑.

Birketts within 3 km of Clints Crags (Wainwright summit)

No bonus Birketts within 3 km.

On the hill: terrain and water on Clints Crags (Wainwright summit)

Access on Clints Crags (Wainwright summit)

Access: the open datasets show no access land and no recorded right of way reaching this summit. That describes the mapping, not necessarily the ground — permissive arrangements often go unmapped — but we don’t publish approach detail for fells where we can’t point to a public right or a landowner’s invitation. If you know of an access arrangement for this fell, we’d genuinely like to hear about it.

Local restrictions can close open-access areas temporarily — check the official open-access information (opens in new tab) before travelling.

How we worked out the access

Summit and approach positions are tested against Natural England’s CRoW Act 2000 access layer; rights of way and wall or fence detail come from OpenStreetMap. Both are open datasets with known gaps — in our own survey only 4 of 26 wall and fence crossings had a stile or gate mapped within 150 m — so absence of a mapped feature never means absence of a real one. Nothing here is field-verified unless marked, and none of it is legal advice. How we checked 377 fells.

Access land: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

About Clints Crags (Wainwright summit)

It is one of the most northerly of the Outlying Fells.

Classifications & hill data

Is Clints Crags (Wainwright summit) a Wainwright?

Clints Crags (Wainwright summit) is one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells, not one of the 214 in the Pictorial Guides.

Selected lists

245 m
Height
804 ft
In feet
NY 1592 3526
Grid ref

This is the summit’s grid reference. If you call from anywhere else, give your own position, not this one.

The summit is not a Birkett top.

Lists, height and summit position from the Database of British and Irish Hills; the feet are converted from its metres and the grid reference from that position. How we check →

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