Gavel Fell Hiking Guide & Routes

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524 mWainwright — North Western Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+19 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Gavel Fell at 526m (1,726ft) is a broad, heathery summit between Ennerdale and Loweswater, giving wide views of the western fells. Wainwright included it as part of the Loweswater/Ennerdale fell group, noting its open, spacious character. The ascent from Loweswater or Ennerdale is across pleasant moorland. Combined naturally with Blake Fell and Hen Comb for a circuit of the western fells.

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.

0.6 km NEGavel Fell - High Nook (Gavel Fell North Top)488 m · North Western

0.8 km WNWHigh Pen475 m · North Western

1.1 km SBanna Fell455 m · Western

1.3 km SSEFloutern Cop451 m · Western

1.3 km WNWLow Pen435 m · North Western

1.6 km WGodworth365 m · Western

1.7 km ENELittle Dodd (Loweswater)362 m · North Western

1.8 km NCarling Knott544 m · North Western

1.9 km NNWSharp Knott482 m · North Western

2.1 km NLoweswater End - Carling Knott519 m · Western

2.2 km SHerdus562 m · Western

2.2 km WKelton Fell311 m · Western

2.2 km WNWMurton Fell (Knock Murton)446 m · North Western

2.6 km NWHigh Hows (Lamplugh)313 m · Western

2.7 km SBrown How (Ennerdale)330 m · Western

2.7 km SEGale Fell518 m · Western

2.8 km ENEMellbreak North Top509 m · North Western

2.9 km NWOwsen Fell409 m · Western

3.0 km SBowness Knott333 m · Western

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Gavel Fell (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Maggie's Bridge, Loweswater (NT, free) — 3.0 km from summit (straight line)

Small free car park for Mellbreak, Hen Comb and the Loweswater fells.

Directions ↗

Bowness Knott, Ennerdale (free) — 3.1 km from summit (straight line)

Forestry car park on Ennerdale's north shore — Great Borne, Starling Dodd, and the long walk-ins to Pillar and Steeple.

Directions ↗

Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

No regular bus serves the start points for this fell — this is one for the car (or a long approach from the nearest served valley). The nearest hubs are Penrith (X4/X5 & 508), Ambleside and Windermere (555, 505, 516).

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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