Clints Crags (Wainwright summit)
Clints Crags at 245m (804ft) is a small Outlying Fell above the Solway coastal plain near Mawbray in the Northern Outliers group, its modest summit giving views across the Solway Firth to the Scottish hills.
Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast
Modelled guidance for the 245 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
On the summit today (Sat 12 Sep): 17° to 9°C, gusts to 45 mph, 15.2 mm of rain forecast.
Forecast snapshot from 12 Sep 2026, 18:50 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 245 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.
Clints Crags (Wainwright summit) at a glance
Getting there
Classifications & hill data
The short answers
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.
Where do you park for Clints Crags (Wainwright summit)?
The nearest car park we hold is Clints Crags (layby), about 1.4 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is Watch Hill car park (free), 1.9 km out. We only look within 2.5 km, measured straight-line: over longer distances a road may cross a pass and the drive bears no relation to the line.
Routes up Clints Crags (Wainwright summit)
No route guide for this fell yet.
Parking & buses for Clints Crags (Wainwright summit)
Best parking to hike Clints Crags (Wainwright summit)
Where we have the data, each parking spot also shows the nearest public toilets and facilities (cafés, pubs, shops).
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.
Vehicles are left entirely at their owner’s risk. We list places people park; we cannot vouch for any of them. Judge it on the day: take valuables with you, leave nothing on show, and if a spot feels wrong when you get there, park somewhere else.
Getting to Clints Crags (Wainwright summit) by bus
The nearest bus stop we hold is the X4 at Bassenthwaite, opposite Trotters World, 5.0 km of walking from the start — not realistically reachable without a car.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Hazards on Clints Crags (Wainwright summit)
No hazard card for this fell. The usual open-fell rules apply: check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected.
Map & nearby Birketts
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.
Nearest parking: Clints Crags (layby), about 1.4 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.
Birketts near Clints Crags (Wainwright summit) (within 3 km)
No bonus Birketts within 3 km — every Birkett near here is already a Wainwright summit, so just enjoy the walk.
On the hill: terrain and water on Clints Crags (Wainwright summit)
Terrain & access
A near-path top (about 245 m): a mapped path comes within about 59 m of the summit, with a last stretch of open ground (about 10 m of ascent, up to ~15°). The summit is not on CRoW open access land, and the direct approach crosses land that is neither access land nor a right of way — there may be no public right to the top, so check access before you go.
Computed from open data, not walked — pathless ground needs confident navigation, and mapped paths, barriers and access boundaries can be incomplete. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (via Overpass); Natural England CRoW Access Land; DoBIH; Copernicus GLO-30. See the terrain & access report for how this is worked out across all 144 fells.
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 this out
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 23 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 378 fells.