Finsthwaite Heights
Short entry: no route or hazard notes for this fell yet.
Finsthwaite Heights is a listed Lakeland top in South Lakeland. Its nearest tops are Gummer's How (2.9 km E), Staveley Fell (3.2 km ESE) and Birch Fell (3.5 km ENE). It rewards the list-ticker or anyone exploring this corner of the District.
Summit conditions on Finsthwaite Heights
On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 14° to 9°C, gusts to 39 mph, 2.6 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.
The forecast figures are Open-Meteo’s, worked out for the summit’s height. How we check →
Parking & buses
No routes yet
No route guide for this fell yet.
Conditions and 7-day summit forecast
Modelled for the 180 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
Full 7-day forecast
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 Finsthwaite Heights
Parking
2 more places to park near Finsthwaite Heights
Positions are approximate.
Of the pay-and-display machine tickets sold at High Dam from 17 August 2024 to 31 March 2026, 16% were bought before 10am (our count of FOI/2026.500 ticket data). Contains public sector information provided by the Lake District National Park Authority and licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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 6, 6C and X6 stop at Newby Bridge, at Swan Hotel, a 2.4 km walk from the nearest parking for this fell. We haven’t mapped a route up it, so we can’t tell you the walk from there to the start. As timetabled from 27 October to 1 November. Towards Kendal (6): Tuesday to Saturday 22:39 to Windermere, 15:36 to Kendal; Sunday 21:55. Towards Kendal (X6): Tuesday to Saturday 22:29; Sunday 16:32. Checked against the operator’s timetable, 24 September 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Getting there across the Lake District: Buses · Parking map · By train · By boat
Hazards on Finsthwaite Heights
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
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap, with SRTM elevation data (switch layers top-right).
Parking, toilets and buses: Parking & buses ↑.
Birketts within 3 km of Finsthwaite Heights
No bonus Birketts within 3 km.
On the hill: terrain and water on Finsthwaite Heights
Access on Finsthwaite Heights
Access: the open datasets show no access land and no recorded right of way reaching this summit. That describes the mapping, not necessarily the ground — permissive arrangements often go unmapped — but we don’t publish approach detail for fells where we can’t point to a public right or a landowner’s invitation. If you know of an access arrangement for this fell, we’d genuinely like to hear about it.
Local restrictions can close open-access areas temporarily — check the official open-access information (opens in new tab) before travelling.
How we worked out the access
Summit and approach positions are tested against Natural England’s CRoW Act 2000 access layer; rights of way and wall or fence detail come from OpenStreetMap. Both are open datasets with known gaps — in our own survey only 4 of 26 wall and fence crossings had a stile or gate mapped within 150 m — so absence of a mapped feature never means absence of a real one. Nothing here is field-verified unless marked, and none of it is legal advice. How we checked 377 fells.
Access land: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
About Finsthwaite Heights
Classifications & hill data
Is Finsthwaite Heights a Wainwright?
Finsthwaite Heights is one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells, not one of the 214 in the Pictorial Guides.
Selected lists
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 →