Grandsire
Grandsire is a low, grassy fell of 251m (823ft) in the gentle country south-east of Windermere, near Ings.
Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast
Modelled guidance for the 251 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
On the summit today (Sat 12 Sep): 17° to 8°C, gusts to 32 mph, 16.8 mm of rain forecast.
Forecast snapshot from 12 Sep 2026, 18:50 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 251 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.
Grandsire at a glance
Getting there
Classifications & hill data
The short answers
Is Grandsire a Wainwright?
Grandsire is one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells, not one of the 214 in the Pictorial Guides.
Where do you park for Grandsire?
The nearest car park we hold is School Knott (layby), about 1.4 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is Reston Scar, west (layby), 1.9 km out. 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 Grandsire
No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest routes we publish start close by:
- Orrest Head — starts 2.2 km away
- Brunt Knott from Staveley — starts 4.0 km away
- Capple Howe & Sallows — starts 5.8 km away
Parking & buses for Grandsire
Best parking to hike Grandsire
Where we have the data, each parking spot also shows the nearest public toilets and facilities (cafés, pubs, shops).
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 Grandsire by bus
The 508 stops at Bowness on Windermere, opposite St Martins Church, 2.4 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. Last bus: Monday to Friday 23:32 towards Kendal (555) and 23:19 towards Ulverston (6) and 22:28 towards Grasmere (555) and 21:24 towards Windermere (555) and 20:13 towards Keswick (555) and 17:02 towards Penrith (508); Saturday 23:32 towards Kendal (555) and 23:19 towards Ulverston (6) and 22:28 towards Grasmere (555) and 21:24 towards Windermere (555) and 20:13 towards Keswick (555) and 17:02 towards Penrith (508); Sunday 23:21 towards Ulverston (6) and 20:34 towards Windermere (555) and 17:02 towards Penrith (508) and 08:02 towards Keswick (555). Checked against the operator’s timetable, 7 September 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Hazards on Grandsire
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
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.
Nearest parking: School Knott (layby), about 1.4 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.
Birketts near Grandsire (within 3 km)
No bonus Birketts within 3 km — every Birkett near here is already a Wainwright summit, so just enjoy the walk.