⛰️ Crag Hill (Eel Crag)

839 m · Wainwright — North Western Fells · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

839 mWainwright — North Western Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+9 bonus Birketts within 3 km

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 NWEel Crag (Birkett)807 m · North Western
1.2 km SWThirdgill Head Man734 m · North Western
1.3 km SSEIll Crag (Newlands) (Knott Rigg North Top)546 m · North Western
1.6 km NNWSand Hill756 m · North Western
1.7 km NHobcarton Crag (Hobcarton Head)738 m · North Western
2.3 km WSWLad Hows426 m · North Western
2.4 km NWGasgale Crags703 m · North Western
2.5 km NWWhiteside East Top (Whiteside) (Gasgale Crags)719 m · North Western
2.5 km NNWLadyside Pike704 m · North Western

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🦶 My hikes over Crag Hill (Eel Crag) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Buttermere village (NT, paid) — 3.8 km from summit (straight line)
For Red Pike, High Stile, Robinson, Rannerdale Knotts.
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Little Town, Newlands (paid, small) — 4.0 km from summit (straight line)
Newlands valley — Catbells, Maiden Moor, Hindscarth, Robinson.
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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 77 / 77A “Honister Rambler”
Keswick – Portinscale – Hawse End (Catbells) – Grange – Seatoller – Honister Pass – Buttermere – Lorton – Whinlatter – Keswick (circular)
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 from Windermere/Ambleside or X4/X5 from Penrith)
Seasonal (roughly Easter–October). Brilliant for the North Western fells: Catbells, Dale Head from Honister, the Buttermere fells and Whinlatter.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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