Great Paddy Crag
Great Paddy Crag at 532m (1,745ft) is a Birkett top in the remote fell country above the coast between Sellafield and the Muncaster area, giving views across the Irish Sea and inland towards the Western Fells.
Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast
Modelled guidance for the 532 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
On the summit today (Fri 11 Sep): 12° to 10°C, gusts to 28 mph, 1.0 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 532 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.
Great Paddy Crag at a glance
Getting there
Classifications & hill data
The short answers
Is Great Paddy Crag a Wainwright?
Great Paddy Crag is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett list.
Where do you park for Great Paddy Crag?
The nearest car park we hold is Corney Fell road summit (verge), about 1.2 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is Kinmont Buck Barrow (layby), 1.7 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 Paddy Crag
No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest routes we publish start close by:
- Around Sele Bottom — starts 1.2 km away
- Awkward Around Swinside Fell — starts 1.2 km away
- Ulpha Birketts — starts 5.1 km away
Parking & buses for Great Paddy Crag
Best parking to hike Great Paddy Crag
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 Paddy Crag by bus
The nearest bus stop we hold is the 505 at Coniston, outside John Ruskin School, 20.4 km of walking from the start — not realistically reachable without a car.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Hazards on Great Paddy Crag
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: Corney Fell road summit (verge), about 1.2 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.
Birketts near Great Paddy Crag (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 Paddy Crag
Terrain & access
A near-path top (about 532 m): a mapped path comes within about 72 m of the summit, with a last stretch of open ground (about 26 m of ascent, up to ~22°). 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.
Other fells near Great Paddy Crag
- Base Brown
- Blake Fell
- Brandreth
- Buckbarrow
- Burnbank Fell
- Caw Fell
- Crag Fell
- Fellbarrow - Mosser Fell
- Fleetwith Pike
- Gavel Fell
- Great Borne
- Great Gable
- Green Gable
- Grey Knotts
- Grike
- Haycock
- Haystacks (Buttermere)
- Hen Comb
- High Crag (Buttermere)
- High Stile
- Kirk Fell
- Lank Rigg
- Low Fell
- Mellbreak (Mellbreak South Top)
- Middle Fell
- Pillar
- Red Pike (Buttermere)
- Red Pike (Wasdale)
- Scoat Fell (Little Scoat Fell)
- Seatallan
- Starling Dodd
- Steeple
- Yewbarrow