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Eycott Hill

Eycott Hill (345 m / 1,132 ft) is a Birkett (one of the 541 tops in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells), one of the lesser-known Northern tops.

345 m
Height
+1
Bonus Birkett
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345 mBirkett — Northern (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 345 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Fri 11 Sep): 14° to 10°C, gusts to 20 mph, 1.3 mm of rain forecast.

Fri 11 Sep
🌦️
14° / 10°
💨 20 mph
🌧 1.3 mm (90%)
Sat 12 Sep
🌧️
17° / 9°
💨 41 mph
🌧 20.1 mm (100%)
Sun 13 Sep
🌦️
14° / 9°
💨 14 mph
🌧 0.3 mm (48%)
Mon 14 Sep
🌧️
17° / 9°
💨 28 mph
🌧 5.4 mm (84%)
Tue 15 Sep
🌦️
15° / 10°
💨 34 mph
🌧 3.3 mm (75%)
Wed 16 Sep
🌦️
13° / 10°
💨 30 mph
🌧 0.7 mm (57%)
Thu 17 Sep
🌦️
13° / 10°
💨 35 mph
🌧 3.6 mm (74%)

Forecast snapshot from 11 Sep 2026, 08:30 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 345 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

Eycott Hill at a glance

Eycott Hill

Eycott Hill (345 m / 1,132 ft) is a Birkett (one of the 541 tops in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells), one of the lesser-known Northern tops. It rises the Mungrisdale. The name comes from hill (Old English hyll, a hill). It also features on the Synge list. Its nearest tops are Little Eycott Hill (0.6 km N); Souther Fell (3.2 km W); The Tongue (3.9 km W) — it's usually taken in on a round of these neighbours. It's a worthwhile objective for anyone working through the Birkett list, or as a short extension to a bigger day on the higher neighbouring fells.

Routes up Eycott Hill

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

Eycott Hills
11 km · ~2.6 hr
Eycott Hill and Little Eycott Hill on the open ground east of Skiddaw — 11 km with just 216 m of climbing and nothing averaging steeper than about 3%. Easy for both steepness and exposure; around 2.6 hours.

Classifications & hill data

Birkett
Synge
345 m
Height
1,132 ft
In feet
NY 3864 2947
Grid ref

The short answers

Is Eycott Hill a Wainwright?

Eycott Hill is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett list and the Synge list.

Where do you park for Eycott Hill?

The nearest car park we hold is Little Eycott Hill car park (free), about 0.9 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is Souther Fell, north-east (layby), 2.0 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.

How hard is Eycott Hill?

The shortest way up we hold is Eycott Hills — 11 km, 216 m of ascent, about 2.6 hours. On our scale its hardest axis is terrain — Moderate.

All axes: terrain: Moderate · navigation: Moderate · length: Moderate · exposure: Easy · steepness: Easy.

Parking & buses for Eycott Hill

Best parking to hike Eycott Hill

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

Little Eycott Hill car park (free) — 0.9 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Little Eycott Hill (0.8 km), Eycott Hill (0.9 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Compacted surface (OSM-tagged).
Directions Something changed here?
Souther Fell, north-east (layby) — 2.0 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Souther Fell (1.3 km), Little Eycott Hill (1.9 km), The Tongue (1.9 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Ground surface (OSM-tagged).
Directions Something changed here?
Troutbeck (layby) — 2.2 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest published walking: 3.1 km from the 'Great Mell Fell' route start; 2.1 km from Great Mell Fell. Free (OSM-tagged).
Directions Something changed here?
Mungrisdale (verge, by the village hall) — 2.2 km from summit (straight line)
Roadside verge 240 m from the village hall car park — the same fells: Bowscale Fell, Bannerdale Crags, Souther Fell, The Tongue.
Directions Something changed here?
If it is full: Mungrisdale village hall (donation) (0.2 km)
Souther Fell, north-east (layby 2) — 2.3 km from summit (straight line)
Walking base for The Tongue, Bowscale Fell, Eycott Hill and Little Eycott Hill — the 'The Tongue Birkett' route starts 113 m away. Also serves 'Eycott Hills'. Free (OSM-tagged). Grass surface (OSM-tagged).
Directions Something changed here?

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 Eycott Hill by bus

The 509 stops at Mungrisdale, adjacent to Road End. From there it is 3.2 km and 77 m of ascent to the start of Eycott Hills — a walk in before the walk. Last bus: Monday to Friday 22:11 towards Penrith (X5) and 17:07 towards Patterdale (509) and 14:42 towards Hartsop (509); Saturday 22:11 towards Penrith (X5) and 17:07 towards Patterdale (509) and 14:42 towards Hartsop (509); Sunday 18:38 towards Penrith (X5) and 17:07 towards Patterdale (509) and 14:42 towards Hartsop (509). Checked against the operator’s timetable, 7 September 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.

Stagecoach 509
Penrith ↔ Keswick around Ullswater — calls at Pooley Bridge, Watermillock, Glenridding, Patterdale, Hartsop, Dockray, Matterdale, Mungrisdale and Threlkeld
Catch it from: Penrith · Keswick
The Ullswater side of the Penrith–Keswick corridor, and a second option where we previously showed only the 508. Reaches Helvellyn and Catstye Cam from Glenridding, Place Fell and Angletarn Pikes from Patterdale, the Hartsop fells, and Gowbarrow from Dockray. Frequency and season are not listed here because we have not verified a timetable — check Stagecoach before you rely on it. Note the Troutbeck on this route is the one on the A66 near Penrith, not the Troutbeck near Windermere.

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

Hazards on Eycott Hill

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

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

Nearest parking: Little Eycott Hill car park (free), about 0.9 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Eycott Hill (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.

0.6 km NNWLittle Eycott Hill332 m · Northern

Routes over Eycott Hill

Eycott HillsPlanned
11.04 km · ~216 m ascent · loop · ~2.5–3.5 h
Summits: Eycott HillLittle Eycott Hill

⬇️ Download GPX

⚠️ Warnings: Around 70% of this route is on drawn lines, not tracks — the Eycott Hills are tussocky, wet moorland with no paths worth the name. Treat the plotted line as a bearing, not a trail, and expect slow going.

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. How to use this guide.

Places to stay near this fell

Mosedale End Farm B&B guest house

about 2.3 km from the start, in a straight line

The nearest bed in the area we can actually evidence, at 2.31 km, and it answers more of our columns from its own pages than anything else here: an EV charge point, a room that sleeps two adults plus two children, a breakfast hamper delivered to the door, picnics, and its own private yard to park in. It also tells you the one thing most pages hide - that there is no bus - which matters on a Mungrisdale start where the alternative is a taxi.

Worth knowing: “Sorry we do not take DOGS or offer help the farmer or work experience days”

They run cameras on their own livestock and wildlife and lend guests a tablet to watch them from bed - a lambing camera in the lambing shed, a badger-sett camera and nest-box cameras.

  • Family rooms “THE GRAINERY SUITE A spacious en-suite bedroom with a king-size bed. Small kitchen area for basic food prep, with kettle, toaster, microwave, fridge, sink, and cupboard storage. Private balcony with outdoor seating.”
  • Packed lunch “Leave the car and walk all day for free. Picnics available.”
  • Parking “Mosedale End Farm is a traditional Lake District white farm house and is set back off the road, behind its own private yard where you may park your car.”

Scales Farm Country Guest House guest house

about 3.9 km from the start, in a straight line

It answers more of a wet walker's questions than anything else in this area, and answers them on its own pages: a boiler-room drying room, a private car park for eight, a ground-floor room for mobility-impaired guests, dog-friendly ground-floor rooms with their own exercise field opening straight onto Scales Fell, lockable storage for up to twelve bikes, free loan of poles, compasses and maps, and a bus stop directly opposite. It ranks second rather than first only because it is 1.57 km further out than Mosedale End and is silent on children in everything we hold.

The house is a 1650s farmhouse and barn, converted to a guest house in the early 1980s, and the owners were qualified hill-walking leaders for fifteen years before they bought it.

  • Drying room “We have a boiler room to provide heat and hot water which runs all year. This room is like a mini-sauna and is ideal for drying wet clothes and boots.”
  • Dogs “All three ground floor rooms are dog friendly with direct access to the garden and our own field.”
  • Parking “We have a large off road private car park that can easily accommodate 8 vehicles.”

What each place says about itself, quoted from their own site. We have not stayed at any of them, and there are no prices, no booking and no affiliate links. Distances are straight lines from each route start, never walking times. Properties found via OpenStreetMap.

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