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Birkett — Northern (not a Wainwright summit)Birkett top

Great Lingy Hill

Great Lingy Hill is a Birkett (one of the 541 tops in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells), a quiet Northern top reached by few walkers.

616 m
Height
+8
Bonus Birketts
See routes & download GPX →

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616 mBirkett — Northern (not a Wainwright summit)+8 bonus Birketts within 3 km

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

Modelled guidance for the 616 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 15° to 13°C, gusts to 39 mph, 5.5 mm of rain forecast.

Tue 28 Jul
🌦️
15° / 13°
💨 39 mph
🌧 5.5 mm (61%)
Wed 29 Jul
🌧️
16° / 11°
💨 31 mph
🌧 9.9 mm (71%)
Thu 30 Jul
🌧️
13° / 5°
💨 31 mph
🌧 1.9 mm (76%)
Fri 31 Jul
🌤️
14° / 2°
💨 24 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (76%)
Sat 1 Aug
🌦️
14° / 3°
💨 15 mph
🌧 2.7 mm (55%)
Sun 2 Aug
☁️
15° / 3°
💨 17 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (28%)
Mon 3 Aug
🌦️
15° / 6°
💨 15 mph
🌧 0.4 mm (22%)

Forecast snapshot from 28 Jul 2026, 04:58 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 616 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 Lingy Hill

Great Lingy Hill is a Birkett (one of the 541 tops in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells), a quiet Northern top reached by few walkers. The name combines great (Old English great, great or larger), and hill (Old English hyll, a hill). It also features on the Synge, Nuttall lists. Its nearest tops are Miller Moss (Little Lingy Hill) (0.6 km W); Hare Stones (0.7 km NE); Coomb Height (1.3 km S) — it's usually taken in on a round of these neighbours. It's a worthwhile objective for anyone working through the Birkett list, or as a short extension to a bigger day on the higher neighbouring fells.

Routes up Great Lingy Hill

Hand-mapped, with GPX to download — full maps further down.

Birketts by Carrock Fell
15.3 km · ~4.2 hr
Classifications & hill data
Birkett
Synge
Nuttall
616 m
Height
2,021 ft
In feet
NY 3100 3397
Grid ref

Map & nearby Birketts

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

Nearest parking: Caldbeck village (free), about 5.9 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Great Lingy Hill (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.

0.6 km WMiller Moss (Little Lingy Hill)610 m · Northern
0.7 km NEHare Stones627 m · Northern
1.3 km SCoomb Height627 m · Northern
1.9 km EMiton Hill607 m · Northern
2.1 km WLittle Sca Fell633 m · Northern
2.4 km WSWFrozen Fell625 m · Northern
2.4 km ERound Knott603 m · Northern
2.9 km WSWBurn Tod595 m · Northern

Routes over Great Lingy Hill

Birketts by Carrock FellPlanned
15.34 km · ~668 m ascent · loop · ~4–5.5 h
Summits: Carrock FellRound KnottMiton HillHare StonesGreat Lingy HillMiller Moss (Little Lingy Hill)KnottCoomb Height

⬇️ Download GPX

Full route guide ↗

✎️ Planned route — drawn but not personally walked or checked yet.

A planned line is a suggestion, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate independently and carry a map & compass.

Best parking to hike Great Lingy Hill

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

Caldbeck village (free) — 5.9 km from summit (straight line)
Northern edge — High Pike and Carrock Fell from the north.
Directions
🚺 Public toilets (949m)
Peter House Farm, Bassenthwaite (roadside) — 6.4 km from summit (straight line)
Dash Falls track — Bakestall, Great Calva, Skiddaw the quiet way.
Directions

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 Lingy Hill 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.

Other fells near Great Lingy Hill

Maps & guidebooks for Great Lingy Hill

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