⛰️ Great Cockup

📖 Key Information

Great Cockup at 526m (1,726ft) is an isolated summit north of Skiddaw, its open top giving wide views across the Solway Plain and north towards Scotland. Wainwright included it as part of the Back o' Skiddaw group, noting its fine northern views and remote character. The ascent from Orthwaite or Longlands is across open moorland. The summit is most naturally combined with Meal Fell and Brae Fell for a circuit of the northern Skiddaw fells.

🎯 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.

🦶 My hikes over Great Cockup (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

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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Other fells in this region

• Bakestall
• Bannerdale Crags
• Binsey
• Blencathra - Hallsfell Top
• Bowscale Fell
• Brae Fell
• Carl Side
• Carrock Fell
• Dodd (Skiddaw)
• Great Calva
• Great Sca Fell
• High Pike (Caldbeck)
• Knott
• Latrigg
• Ling Fell
• Long Side
• Longlands Fell
• Lonscale Fell
• Meal Fell
• Mungrisdale Common
• Sale Fell
• Skiddaw
• Skiddaw Little Man
• Souther Fell
• Ullock Pike