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Faulds Brow

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

Nearest route starts ↓
344 mOutlying Fell — Northern Outliers

Faulds Brow at 344m (1,129ft) is an Outlying Fell north of the Lake District proper on the upland above Caldbeck, giving views north across the Solway Firth to Scotland. Wainwright included it in The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.

Summit conditions on Faulds Brow

On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 13° to 7°C, gusts to 51 mph, 6.3 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

Faulds Brow, east car park (free)
0.5 km from summit (straight line)
Faulds Brow, south-east (layby)
1.4 km from summit (straight line)

Parking & buses ↓

Routes near Faulds Brow

No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest route starts we publish, in a straight line from the summit:

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Modelled for the 344 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

Full 7-day forecast
Tue 27 Oct
13° / 7°
51 mph
6.3 mm (100%)
Wed 28 Oct
11° / 8°
42 mph
3.6 mm (100%)
Thu 29 Oct
11° / 8°
18 mph
0.1 mm (2%)
Fri 30 Oct
11° / 7°
12 mph
0.0 mm (11%)
Sat 31 Oct
13° / 1°
6 mph
0.0 mm (21%)
Sun 1 Nov
8° / 3°
7 mph
0.0 mm (12%)
Mon 2 Nov
9° / -1°
12 mph
0.0 mm (0%)

Taken 27 October 2026, 08:13 UTC; the live forecast replaces it when it loads. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Parking & buses for Faulds Brow

Parking

Faulds Brow, east car park (free) — 0.5 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Faulds Brow (0.5 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Unpaved surface (OSM-tagged).
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Faulds Brow, south-east (layby) — 1.4 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Faulds Brow (1.4 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Unpaved surface (OSM-tagged).
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Faulds Brow car park (free) — 1.8 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Faulds Brow (1.8 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Gravel surface (OSM-tagged).
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2 more places to park near Faulds Brow
Caldbeck Bowling club (free) — 2.3 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest published walking: 2.3 km from Faulds Brow. Free (OSM-tagged).
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Caldbeck village (free) — 2.5 km from summit (straight line)
Northern edge — High Pike and Carrock Fell from the north.
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Public toilets (opens in new tab) (~172 m straight line)

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 nearest bus stop we hold is the 554 and 600 stop at Bolton Low Houses, at Oddfellows Arm, 10.1 km of walking from the nearest parking for this fell — no bus route we hold serves it.

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

Hazards on Faulds Brow

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 Faulds Brow

No bonus Birketts within 3 km.

On the hill: terrain and water on Faulds Brow

Terrain & access

The summit is on CRoW open access land.

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 v18.4 (CC BY 4.0); Copernicus GLO-30. CRoW access layer: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. See the terrain & access report for how this is worked out across all 144 fells.

About Faulds Brow

A remote fell in the farmland fringe north of the main Lakeland hills.

Classifications & hill data

Is Faulds Brow a Wainwright?

Faulds Brow is one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells, not one of the 214 in the Pictorial Guides. It is also on the Synge list.

Selected lists

344 m
Height
1,129 ft
In feet
NY 2994 4071
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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