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Outlying Fell — Pennines

Great Ladstones

At 440 m (1,444 ft), Great Ladstones is a listed Lakeland top in the Pennines area — an overlooked summit away from the crowds.

440 m
Height
+2
Bonus Birketts
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440 mOutlying Fell — Penninessummit is not a Birkett top+2 bonus Birketts within 3 km

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

Modelled guidance for the 440 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 16° to 15°C, gusts to 34 mph, 8.9 mm of rain forecast.

Tue 28 Jul
🌧️
16° / 15°
💨 34 mph
🌧 8.9 mm (98%)
Wed 29 Jul
🌧️
17° / 13°
💨 33 mph
🌧 1.7 mm (98%)
Thu 30 Jul
🌦️
15° / 7°
💨 29 mph
🌧 0.3 mm (63%)
Fri 31 Jul
🌤️
17° / 3°
💨 26 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (82%)
Sat 1 Aug
🌦️
16° / 4°
💨 14 mph
🌧 3.9 mm (31%)
Sun 2 Aug
☁️
18° / 5°
💨 19 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (25%)
Mon 3 Aug
☁️
18° / 8°
💨 13 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (24%)

Forecast snapshot from 28 Jul 2026, 04:58 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 440 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

About the walk

Key information

Great Ladstones

At 440 m (1,444 ft), Great Ladstones is a listed Lakeland top in the Pennines area — an overlooked summit away from the crowds. The name comes from great (Old English great, greater). Its nearest tops are Seat Robert (1.1 km SW); Glede Howe (1.1 km W); Langhowe Pike North Top (Langhowe Pike) (1.2 km N) — usually taken in together. It rewards the list-ticker or anyone exploring this quieter corner of the District.

Classifications & hill data
Outlying Fell
Pennines
Synge
440 m
Height
1,444 ft
In feet

Map & nearby Birketts

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

Nearest parking: Wet Sleddale dam (free), about 1.3 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Great Ladstones (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.

1.1 km WSWGlede Howe476 m · Far Eastern
3.0 km WNWPowleys Hill465 m · Far Eastern

Terrain & access

A near-path top (about 440 m): a mapped path comes within about 118 m of the summit, with a last stretch of open ground (about 18 m of ascent, up to ~16°). 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 145 fells.

Best parking to hike Great Ladstones

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

Wet Sleddale dam (free) — 1.3 km from summit (straight line)
For the quiet Shap-side fells: Seat Robert, Sleddale fells.
Directions
Shap village (free) — 4.1 km from summit (straight line)
For the Shap fells and Crosby Ravensworth commons.
Directions
🚺 Public toilets (352m) — Free☕ Birchwood Cafe🍺 The Crown Inn🏪 New Balance

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.

Buses to Great Ladstones from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Route 106
Penrith – Eamont Bridge – Askham – Shap – Kendal
Catch it from: Penrith
Monday–Saturday, infrequent — plan carefully. Useful for the Shap and Crosby Ravensworth outlying fells.

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

Other fells near Great Ladstones

Maps & guidebooks for Great Ladstones

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