437 mBirkett — Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)+5 bonus Birketts within 3 km
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🎯 Bonus Birketts 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.
⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information
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🦶 My hikes over Great Meldrum (Strava)
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🅿️ Potential parking
The Hause, Little Mell Fell (verge) — 0.7 km from summit (straight line)
Verge parking at the high point of the Watermillock road.
Directions ↗Great Mell Fell layby — 2.5 km from summit (straight line)
Small layby at the foot of Great Mell Fell.
Directions ↗Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.
🚌 Buses 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.
🌦️ 7-day summit forecast
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Other fells in this region
- Angletarn Pikes (Angletarn Pikes North Top)
- Arnison Crag
- Arthur's Pike
- Birkhouse Moor
- Birks
- Bonscale Pike
- Brock Crags (Wainwright)
- Catstye Cam
- Clough Head
- Dollywaggon Pike
- Dove Crag
- Fairfield
- Glenridding Dodd
- Gowbarrow Fell (Wainwright summit)
- Great Dodd
- Great Mell Fell
- Great Rigg
- Hallin Fell
- Hart Crag
- Hart Side
- Helvellyn
- Heron Pike (Rydal)
- High Pike (Scandale)
- High Rigg (Naddle Fell)
- Little Mell Fell
- Loughrigg Fell
- Low Pike
- Nab Scar
- Nethermost Pike
- Place Fell
- Raise
- Red Screes
- Seat Sandal
- Sheffield Pike
- St Sunday Crag
- Stone Arthur
- Stybarrow Dodd
- Watson's Dodd
- White Side