852 mBirkett — Northern (not a Wainwright summit)+5 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.
⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information
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🦶 My hikes over Gategill Fell Top (Strava)
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🅿️ Potential parking
Scales, A66 (layby) — 1.8 km from summit (straight line)
Laybys near the White Horse Inn — Blencathra via Scales Fell or Sharp Edge.
Directions ↗Threlkeld village (free/donation) — 2.0 km from summit (straight line)
Blencathra via Hall's Fell ridge; Clough Head across the valley.
Directions ↗Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.
🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere
Stagecoach X4 / X5
Penrith – Rheged – Threlkeld – Keswick – Braithwaite – Cockermouth – Workington
Catch it from: Penrith
Year-round, frequent. From Penrith this is your way into Keswick and the Northern fells — Threlkeld/Scales stops serve Blencathra directly, Braithwaite serves the Coledale fells.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
🌦️ 7-day summit forecast
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Other fells in this region
- Bakestall
- Bannerdale Crags
- Binsey
- Blencathra - Hallsfell Top
- Bowscale Fell
- Brae Fell
- Carl Side
- Carrock Fell
- Dodd (Skiddaw)
- Great Calva
- Great Cockup
- Great Sca Fell
- High Pike (Caldbeck)
- Knott
- Latrigg
- Ling Fell
- Long Side
- Longlands Fell
- Lonscale Fell
- Meal Fell
- Mungrisdale Common
- Sale Fell
- Skiddaw
- Skiddaw Little Man
- Souther Fell
- Ullock Pike