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Gavel Fell - High Nook (Gavel Fell North Top)

488 m · Birkett — Western (not a Wainwright summit) · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses and live summit weather.

488 m
Height
+16
Bonus Birketts
See routes & download GPX → Parking & buses →

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488 mBirkett — Western (not a Wainwright summit)+16 bonus Birketts within 3 km

Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast

Modelled guidance for the 488 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Fri 11 Sep): 13° to 10°C, gusts to 25 mph, 3.9 mm of rain forecast.

Fri 11 Sep
🌧️
13° / 10°
💨 25 mph
🌧 3.9 mm (100%)
Sat 12 Sep
🌧️
15° / 10°
💨 48 mph
🌧 28.0 mm (100%)
Sun 13 Sep
🌦️
13° / 8°
💨 14 mph
🌧 0.1 mm (74%)
Mon 14 Sep
🌧️
15° / 8°
💨 32 mph
🌧 13.5 mm (96%)
Tue 15 Sep
🌦️
13° / 9°
💨 30 mph
🌧 9.9 mm (100%)
Wed 16 Sep
🌦️
11° / 9°
💨 33 mph
🌧 4.6 mm (96%)
Thu 17 Sep
🌦️
11° / 9°
💨 37 mph
🌧 7.2 mm (98%)

Forecast snapshot from 11 Sep 2026, 08:30 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 488 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

Getting there

🅿️ Maggie's Bridge, Loweswater (NT, paid)
Small paid car park for Mellbreak, Hen Comb and the Loweswater fells. Free for NT members (checked Aug 2026).
🅿️ Kirkstile Inn, Loweswater (free)
Inn car park at Loweswater - please use the pub if you park here.
🚌 Stagecoach 77 / 77A “Honister Rambler”
Keswick – Portinscale – Hawse End (Catbells) – Grange – Seatoller – Honister Pass – Buttermere – Lorton – Whinlatter – Keswick (circular)

Full parking & bus details ↓

Right now on the summit

🌧️ 13°low 10°C
Gusts25 mph

Full 7-day summit forecast →

Classifications & hill data

Birkett
Synge
488 m
Height
1,601 ft
In feet
NY 1203 1891
Grid ref

The short answers

Is Gavel Fell - High Nook (Gavel Fell North Top) a Wainwright?

Gavel Fell - High Nook (Gavel Fell North Top) is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett list and the Synge list.

Where do you park for Gavel Fell - High Nook (Gavel Fell North Top)?

We hold no car park within 2.5 km of the summit, so there is no short walk-in to recommend here. 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 Gavel Fell - High Nook (Gavel Fell North Top)

No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest routes we publish start close by:

Parking & buses for Gavel Fell - High Nook (Gavel Fell North Top)

Best parking to hike Gavel Fell - High Nook (Gavel Fell North Top)

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

Maggie's Bridge, Loweswater (NT, paid) — 2.5 km from summit (straight line)
Small paid car park for Mellbreak, Hen Comb and the Loweswater fells. Free for NT members (checked Aug 2026).
Directions Something changed here?
If it is full: Kirkstile Inn, Loweswater (free) (0.8 km, 22 m up); Car park for Loweswater Fell (free) (1.0 km); Lanthwaite Wood, Crummock Water (NT, paid) (1.7 km, 37 m up); Darling Fell (layby) (2.9 km, 144 m up)
Kirkstile Inn, Loweswater (free) — 2.9 km from summit (straight line)
Inn car park at Loweswater - please use the pub if you park here.
Directions Something changed here?
Darling Fell, south-west (layby) — 3.0 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Darling Fell (0.7 km), Loweswater Fell (Low Fell South Top) (1.0 km), Low Fell (1.3 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Unpaved surface (OSM-tagged).
Directions Something changed here?
Car park for Loweswater Fell (free) — 3.1 km from summit (straight line)
1.4 km from Loweswater Fell. Added from the 5 Aug 2026 OSM candidate review.
Directions Something changed here?
Kelton Fell (layby) — 3.4 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Kelton Fell (0.7 km), Murton Fell (Knock Murton) (1.2 km), Godworth (1.4 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Ground 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 Gavel Fell - High Nook (Gavel Fell North Top) by bus

The 77 stops at Lanthwaite Green Farm (opp), 3.2 km 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. Seasonal: the 77 does not run all year. 1 November 2026 is its last day, and it is not daily before then — a bus on 31 of the 56 days from 7 September. We don’t know when it returns. Confirmed with the operator, 29 August 2026. The last bus is 18:03 towards Keswick (77), every day. Checked against the operator’s timetable, 7 September 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.

Stagecoach 77 / 77A “Honister Rambler”
Keswick – Portinscale – Hawse End (Catbells) – Grange – Seatoller – Honister Pass – Buttermere – Lorton – Whinlatter – Keswick (circular)
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 from Windermere/Ambleside or X4/X5 from Penrith)
Seasonal (roughly Easter–October). Brilliant for the North Western fells: Catbells, Dale Head from Honister, the Buttermere fells and Whinlatter.

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

Hazards on Gavel Fell - High Nook (Gavel Fell North Top)

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: Maggie's Bridge, Loweswater (NT, paid), about 2.5 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Gavel Fell - High Nook (Gavel Fell North Top) (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.

1.0 km WHigh Pen475 m · Western
1.2 km ENELittle Dodd (Loweswater)362 m · Western
1.4 km NNWCarling Knott544 m · Western
1.6 km SFloutern Cop451 m · Western
1.6 km SSWBanna Fell455 m · Western
1.6 km WLow Pen435 m · Western
1.7 km NLoweswater End - Carling Knott519 m · Western
1.8 km NWSharp Knott482 m · Western
2.0 km WSWGodworth365 m · Western
2.3 km ENEMellbreak North Top509 m · Western
2.5 km WMurton Fell (Knock Murton)446 m · Western
2.6 km SHerdus562 m · Western
2.7 km WSWKelton Fell311 m · Western
2.7 km WNWHigh Hows (Lamplugh)313 m · Western
2.8 km NWOwsen Fell409 m · Western
2.9 km SSEGale Fell518 m · Western

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