⛰️ Coldbarrow Fell - High Saddle

675 m · Birkett — Central (not a Wainwright summit) · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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675 mBirkett — Central (not a Wainwright summit)+10 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Coldbarrow Fell at 467m (1,532ft) is a broad, heathery plateau above Watendlath on the Armboth Fell system, its open top giving views west to Derwent Water and east to the Helvellyn range. A Birkett fell on the Central Fells plateau above Borrowdale. The ascent from Watendlath is easy across open moorland. A quiet summit rarely visited.

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

🎯 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.

0.4 km NNWLow Saddle656 m · Central
0.8 km ENEStanding Crag611 m · Central
1.6 km NNEBell Crags (Long Moss) (Blea Tarn Fell)559 m · Central
1.8 km SSWLining Crag542 m · Central
1.9 km NWatendlath Fell (Long Moss)515 m · Central
2.3 km EWythburn Fell508 m · Central
2.3 km NEBrown Rigg462 m · Central
2.4 km NShivery Knott491 m · Central
2.9 km NMiddle Crag484 m · Central
3.0 km SSWLow White Stones731 m · Central

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Coldbarrow Fell - High Saddle (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Stonethwaite (roadside, limited) — 2.8 km from summit (straight line)
Small roadside area near the hamlet — Eagle Crag, Sergeant's Crag, Langstrath approaches.
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Steel End, Thirlmere (paid) — 3.0 km from summit (straight line)
South end of Thirlmere for the Wythburn valley and Armboth fells.
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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 78 “Borrowdale Rambler”
Keswick – Lodore – Grange – Rosthwaite – Seatoller
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 or X4/X5)
Year-round, frequent in season. Serves all the Borrowdale starts — Glaramara, the Scafells and Great Gable via Seathwaite (alight Seatoller, 20 min walk up the lane).
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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