⛰️ Gowk Hill

471 m · Birkett — Far Eastern (not a Wainwright summit) · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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471 mBirkett — Far Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)+4 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Gowk Hill at 413m (1,355ft) is a heathery summit above the Lowther valley, giving views across the lower eastern Lake District fells. A Birkett fell in the pastoral country between the Shap Fells and Ullswater. The ascent from the Lowther valley is easy across open heather moorland.

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.

0.7 km NNWBrownthwaite Crag444 m · Far Eastern
1.6 km SSERed Crag711 m · Far Eastern
3.0 km ELow Kop572 m · Far Eastern
3.0 km NNESwarth Fell (Ullswater)545 m · Far Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Gowk Hill (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Martindale, St Peter's church (free, limited) — 3.7 km from summit (straight line)
Quiet side of Ullswater — Hallin Fell, Steel Knotts, Beda Fell, Pikeawassa.
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Patterdale (paid) — 4.8 km from summit (straight line)
For Place Fell, St Sunday Crag, the Grisedale fells.
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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 508 “Ullswater Bus”
Penrith – Pooley Bridge – Aira Force – Glenridding – Patterdale (summer services continue over Kirkstone Pass to Troutbeck and Windermere)
Catch it from: Penrith · Windermere (summer only)
The key route from Penrith for the Eastern and Far Eastern fells: Helvellyn from Glenridding, Place Fell, the Hartsop fells. The summer Kirkstone extension drops you at the pass for Red Screes and Caudale Moor.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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