⛰️ Glaramara

783 m · Wainwright — Southern Fells · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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783 mWainwright — Southern Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+10 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Glaramara at 783m (2,569ft) is the great ridge fell of upper Borrowdale, a long, complex summit with multiple rocky tops and a character quite unlike its smoother neighbours. Wainwright devoted considerable space to it, highlighting the intricate, interesting terrain of its upper reaches — a playground of small tarns, rock outcrops and hidden hollows. The classic traverse from Seathwaite over the full ridge to Esk Hause and Allen Crags is one of the finest long walks in Lakeland. The summit views across Borrowdale and north to the Skiddaw massif are particularly fine. A fell of quiet, absorbing character that rewards the unhurried walker.

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.

0.3 km SLooking Steads (Glaramara)774 m · Southern
0.6 km NECombe Head735 m · Southern
0.8 km SSWRed Beck Top (Glaramara South Top) (Lincomb Head - Glaramara)720 m · Southern
1.3 km SSWHigh House Tarn Top (High House - Allen Crags)683 m · Southern
1.4 km NThornythwaite Fell574 m · Southern
1.4 km NEDovenest Top (Dovenest Crag) (Stonethwaite Fell)633 m · Southern
1.7 km NERosthwaite Fell (Rosthwaite Cam)612 m · Southern
2.0 km WSWSeathwaite Fell (Great Slack - Seathwaite Fell)631 m · Southern
2.6 km SSEBlack Crags (Mickleden)588 m · Southern
2.8 km SSEBuck Pike (Mickleden)606 m · Southern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Glaramara (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale (free verge) — 2.0 km from summit (straight line)
Free verge parking on the Seathwaite lane — the honeypot start for the Scafells, Great Gable and Glaramara. Arrive very early.
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Seatoller (NT, paid) — 3.4 km from summit (straight line)
Pay & display at the foot of Honister. Bus terminus for Borrowdale.
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Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Stagecoach 78 “Borrowdale Rambler”
Keswick – Lodore – Grange – Rosthwaite – Seatoller
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 or X4/X5)
Year-round, frequent in season. Serves all the Borrowdale starts — Glaramara, the Scafells and Great Gable via Seathwaite (alight Seatoller, 20 min walk up the lane).
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.

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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