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.
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 (Fri 11 Sep): 14° to 9°C, gusts to 22 mph, 1.6 mm of rain forecast.
Forecast snapshot from 11 Sep 2026, 08:30 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.
Great Ladstones at a glance
Getting there
Classifications & hill data
The short answers
Is Great Ladstones a Wainwright?
Great Ladstones is one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells, not one of the 214 in the Pictorial Guides. It is also on the Synge list.
Where do you park for Great Ladstones?
The nearest car park we hold is Langhowe Pike North Top (layby), about 2.2 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is Wet Sleddale Reservoir Car Park, 2.4 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 Ladstones
No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest routes we publish start close by:
- Ulthwaite Rigg — starts 2.4 km away
- West of Wet Sleddale - Birketts — starts 2.4 km away
- Pinnacle Howe and Four Stones Hill — starts 4.3 km away
Parking & buses for Great Ladstones
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).
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 Ladstones by bus
The nearest bus stop we hold is the UB2 at Askham, outside Stores, 10.7 km of walking from the start — not realistically reachable without a car. This looks like a seasonal service. Our timetable data has the UB2 stopping on 1 November 2026, but we haven’t confirmed that with the operator — so treat it as a reason to check rather than a date to plan around.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Hazards on Great Ladstones
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: Langhowe Pike North Top (layby), about 2.2 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.
On the hill: terrain and water on Great Ladstones
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 144 fells.