Faulds Brow
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.
Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast
Modelled guidance for the 344 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
On the summit today (Fri 11 Sep): 14° to 11°C, gusts to 27 mph, 0.0 mm of rain forecast.
Forecast snapshot from 11 Sep 2026, 08:30 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 344 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.
Faulds Brow at a glance
Getting there
Classifications & hill data
The short answers
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.
Where do you park for Faulds Brow?
The nearest car park we hold is Faulds Brow, east car park (free), about 0.5 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is Faulds Brow, south-east (layby), 1.4 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 Faulds Brow
No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest routes we publish start close by:
- North of Skiddaw — starts 5.9 km away
Parking & buses for Faulds Brow
Best parking to hike Faulds Brow
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 Faulds Brow by bus
The nearest bus stop we hold is the X4 at Castle Inn (stop 6), 12.9 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 Faulds Brow
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: Faulds Brow, east car park (free), about 0.5 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.
Birketts near Faulds Brow (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 Faulds Brow
Terrain & access
A pathless top (about 344 m) — the nearest mapped path is about 321 m away, the open ground you’d cross to the summit (about 15 m of ascent, up to ~14°). 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; Copernicus GLO-30. See the terrain & access report for how this is worked out across all 144 fells.