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

Birkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)Birkett top

Great Intake - Low Fell

408 m · Birkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit) · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses and live summit weather.

408 m
Height
+10
Bonus Birketts
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408 mBirkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)+10 bonus Birketts within 3 km

Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast

Modelled guidance for the 408 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Fri 11 Sep): 14° to 9°C, gusts to 29 mph, 1.6 mm of rain forecast.

Fri 11 Sep
🌦️
14° / 9°
💨 29 mph
🌧 1.6 mm (100%)
Sat 12 Sep
🌧️
16° / 10°
💨 43 mph
🌧 40.1 mm (100%)
Sun 13 Sep
🌦️
14° / 8°
💨 16 mph
🌧 0.1 mm (62%)
Mon 14 Sep
🌧️
15° / 7°
💨 29 mph
🌧 15.5 mm (100%)
Tue 15 Sep
🌦️
15° / 9°
💨 34 mph
🌧 5.8 mm (89%)
Wed 16 Sep
🌦️
12° / 10°
💨 29 mph
🌧 2.8 mm (78%)
Thu 17 Sep
🌦️
12° / 9°
💨 36 mph
🌧 6.4 mm (92%)

Forecast snapshot from 11 Sep 2026, 08:30 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 408 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.

Pro mountain forecasts: MWIS · Met Office mountain forecast

Getting there

🅿️ Blake Rigg car park (free)
Community walk pages start here for 'Steel Edge and Wetherlam Edge, from Tilberthwaite' and 'A visit to Cathedral Cavern from Tilberthwaite' (community walk listings). Free (OSM-tagged). Compacted surface (OSM-tagged).
🅿️ Tilberthwaite (paid)
Quarry car park for Wetherlam and the Tilberthwaite fells. It runs a long way along the road with no single entrance, so pull in wherever there is room rather than looking for a gateway. Fees: pay by app only (no cash) (LDNPA, checked Aug 2026).
🚌 Stagecoach 517 — the Little Langdale Shuttle
Ambleside ↔ Coniston via Clappersgate, Skelwith Bridge, Little Langdale and Yew Tree Tarn

Full parking & bus details ↓

Right now on the summit

🌦️ 14°low 9°C
Gusts29 mph

Full 7-day summit forecast →

Classifications & hill data

Birkett
Synge
408 m
Height
1,339 ft
In feet
NY 3028 0216
Grid ref

The short answers

Is Great Intake - Low Fell a Wainwright?

Great Intake - Low Fell is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett list and the Synge list.

Where do you park for Great Intake - Low Fell?

The nearest car park we hold is Blake Rigg car park (free), about 1.1 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is Tilberthwaite (paid), 1.2 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 Great Intake - Low Fell

No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest routes we publish start close by:

Parking & buses for Great Intake - Low Fell

Best parking to hike Great Intake - Low Fell

Where we have the data, each parking spot also shows the nearest public toilets and facilities (cafés, pubs, shops).

Blake Rigg car park (free) — 1.1 km from summit (straight line)
Community walk pages start here for 'Steel Edge and Wetherlam Edge, from Tilberthwaite' and 'A visit to Cathedral Cavern from Tilberthwaite' (community walk listings). Free (OSM-tagged). Compacted surface (OSM-tagged).
Directions Something changed here?
Tilberthwaite (paid) — 1.2 km from summit (straight line)
Quarry car park for Wetherlam and the Tilberthwaite fells. It runs a long way along the road with no single entrance, so pull in wherever there is room rather than looking for a gateway. Fees: pay by app only (no cash) (LDNPA, checked Aug 2026).
Directions Something changed here?
Holme Fell car park (free) — 1.4 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Holme Fell (1.1 km), Great Intake - Low Fell (1.4 km), Haystacks (Tilberthwaite) (1.5 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Compacted surface (OSM-tagged).
Directions Something changed here?
Lingmoor Fell car park (free) — 1.4 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Lingmoor Fell (Brown How) (1.1 km), Great Intake - Low Fell (1.4 km), Blake Rigg (Little Langdale) (1.5 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Compacted surface (OSM-tagged).
Directions Something changed here?
Blake Rigg Little Langdale (verge, east) — 1.4 km from summit (straight line)
1.1 km from Blake Rigg Little Langdale.
Directions Something changed here?

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 Great Intake - Low Fell by bus

The 517 stops at Yew Tree Tarn (at), 2.6 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. We haven’t published last buses, Sunday or winter service yet, so check the timetable before you rely on getting back.

Stagecoach 517 — the Little Langdale Shuttle
Ambleside ↔ Coniston via Clappersgate, Skelwith Bridge, Little Langdale and Yew Tree Tarn
Catch it from: Ambleside · Coniston
The service the National Park names as the Little Langdale Shuttle; its stop list includes Little Langdale, outside Three Shires Inn. The only bus that puts Little Langdale itself within reach — Lingmoor Fell, Wetherlam from the east, Holme Fell and Black Fell. Frequency and season are not listed here because we have not verified a timetable — check Stagecoach before you rely on it.

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

Hazards on Great Intake - Low Fell

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

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.

Nearest parking: Blake Rigg car park (free), about 1.1 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Great Intake - Low Fell (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.

0.5 km SSWHigh Fell (Hawk Rigg)428 m · Southern
0.8 km SSWHawk Rigg441 m · Southern
0.8 km SSWHaystacks (Tilberthwaite)423 m · Southern
0.9 km WSWBirk Fell Man - Birk Fell528 m · Southern
1.0 km SBlake Rigg (Tilberthwaite)423 m · Southern
2.3 km SBrackeny Crag364 m · Southern
2.4 km SWBlack Sails745 m · Southern
2.5 km NWBlake Rigg (Little Langdale)535 m · Southern
2.9 km SLow Wythow372 m · Southern
2.9 km NWWrynose Fell - Long Crag547 m · Southern

On the hill: terrain and water on Great Intake - Low Fell

Terrain & access

A near-path top (about 408 m): a mapped path comes within about 167 m of the summit, with a last stretch of open ground (about 12 m of ascent, up to ~23°). The summit is on CRoW open access land.

Computed from open data, not walked — pathless ground needs confident navigation, and mapped paths, barriers and access boundaries can be incomplete. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (via Overpass); Natural England CRoW Access Land; DoBIH; Copernicus GLO-30. See the terrain & access report for how this is worked out across all 144 fells.

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