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

Great Intake - Low Fell at 408m (1,339ft) is a Birkett top on the rough fell between Tilberthwaite and Little Langdale, 0.5 km north-north-east of High Fell (Hawk Rigg). Betsy Crag Quarry is 0.2 km to the east. We hold no route over it yet.

Summit conditions on Great Intake - Low Fell

On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 13° to 7°C, gusts to 47 mph, 6.5 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.

Full 7-day summit forecast ↓

The forecast figures are Open-Meteo’s, worked out for the summit’s height. How we check →

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com

Parking & buses

Tilberthwaite (NT, free)
1.1 km from summit (straight line)
Tilberthwaite (paid)
1.2 km from summit (straight line)
Stagecoach 505 “Coniston Rambler”

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Routes near Great Intake - Low Fell

No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest route starts we publish, in a straight line from the summit:

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Modelled for the 408 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

Full 7-day forecast
Tue 27 Oct
13° / 7°
47 mph
6.5 mm (100%)
Wed 28 Oct
11° / 8°
41 mph
10.2 mm (100%)
Thu 29 Oct
10° / 8°
22 mph
0.1 mm (33%)
Fri 30 Oct
10° / 7°
23 mph
0.0 mm (23%)
Sat 31 Oct
11° / 2°
11 mph
0.0 mm (18%)
Sun 1 Nov
10° / 2°
9 mph
0.0 mm (10%)
Mon 2 Nov
9° / 2°
17 mph
0.0 mm (0%)

Taken 27 October 2026, 08:13 UTC; the live forecast replaces it when it loads. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com

Pro mountain forecasts: MWIS · Met Office mountain forecast

Parking & buses for Great Intake - Low Fell

Parking

Tilberthwaite (NT, free) — 1.1 km from summit (straight line)
The National Trust's car park at Low Tilberthwaite, by the farm track, across the gill from the National Park's paid car park; for Wetherlam and the Tilberthwaite fells. Free (National Trust).
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: use the marked parking without blocking the road or gateways. The National Trust's own free car park is across the gill, by the farm track. Fees: pay by app only (no cash), RingGo location 37331 (LDNPA, checked August 2026).
Directions Something changed here?
Hodge Close (free) — 1.4 km from summit (straight line)
At Hodge Close Quarry, Little Langdale. The 'Holme Fell and Black Fell' route passes about 130 m away; the nearest route start is the Three Shires Inn, Little Langdale ('Slater Bridge & Cathedral Cave'), 2.3 km on foot. Free (OSM-tagged). Compacted surface (OSM-tagged). The National Trust lists it as a private car park (read 18 October 2026).
Directions Something changed here?
2 more places to park near Great Intake - Low Fell
Lingmoor Fell car park (free) — 1.4 km from summit (straight line)
A car park on Side Gates Road, the Blea Tarn road, 0.9 km south-south-east of the Blea Tarn car park in a straight line, on the Little Langdale side. The 'Blea Tarn (Little Langdale)' route starts at that car park. Free (OSM-tagged). Compacted surface (OSM-tagged).
Directions Something changed here?
Blake Rigg Little Langdale (verge, east) — 1.4 km from summit (straight line)
A verge on the Little Langdale valley road towards Wrynose, 530 m west of Fell Foot, under Blake Rigg (Lee's Street View pin). The 'Blea Tarn (Little Langdale)' route starts at the Blea Tarn car park, 1.4 km on foot and about 100 m up; the two routes from the Wrynose Pass car park start 1.8 km away in a straight line.
Directions Something changed here?

Positions are approximate.

Vehicles are left at their owner’s risk: we list places people park and cannot vouch for any of them. Take valuables with you and leave nothing on show.

Buses

The 505 stops at Monk Coniston, at Hall, a 3.6 km walk 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. As timetabled from 27 October to 1 November. Towards Coniston (505): Tuesday to Sunday 20:07. Checked against the operator’s timetable, 12 September 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.

Stagecoach 505 “Coniston Rambler”
Windermere – Ambleside – Skelwith Bridge – Hawkshead – Coniston
Catch it from: Windermere · Ambleside
Daily in season (reduced winter service). Best access for the Coniston fells (Old Man, Wetherlam group).

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

Getting there across the Lake District: Buses · Parking map · By train · By boat

Hazards on Great Intake - Low Fell

We have not written a hazard card for this fell yet, and that is not a sign that it is low-hazard. Check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected. The National Park Authority’s What to pack page, AdventureSmart’s hill walking kit list and Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s safety page are linked from our what to carry guide.

If you need Mountain Rescue

Dial 999 or 112 and ask for the Police, then Mountain Rescue.

Before you call, have ready: where you are (a grid reference if you can – the OS Locate app shows yours on your phone), what has happened, how many of you there are, and your mobile number.

Then stay where you are until the rescue team contacts you.

If you cannot make a voice call because of a hearing or speech impairment, emergency SMS works only if you have registered first: text “register” to 999.

From Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s guidance on calling them out (read 26 October 2026).

Map & nearby Birketts

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap, with SRTM elevation data (switch layers top-right).

Parking, toilets and buses: Parking & buses ↑.

Birketts within 3 km of Great Intake - Low Fell

These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits. Distances are straight lines: check the ground and access on a map before adding one.

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. We have not checked a way from it to the top: the figures here are measured along a straight line on a terrain model, not a route. That line climbs about 12 m. 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 v18.4 (CC BY 4.0); Copernicus GLO-30. CRoW access layer: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. See the terrain & access report for how this is worked out across all 144 fells.

About Great Intake - Low Fell

Classifications & hill data

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.

Selected lists

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

This is the summit’s grid reference. If you call from anywhere else, give your own position, not this one.

Lists, height and summit position from the Database of British and Irish Hills; the feet are converted from its metres and the grid reference from that position. How we check →

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