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Birkett — Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)Birkett top

Green Side (White Stones)

Green Side at 794m (2,605ft) is a high Birkett top on the ridge above Glenridding in the Eastern Fells, part of the broad plateau between Sticks Pass and the Helvellyn range.

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

Modelled guidance for the 794 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Sat 12 Sep): 13° to 6°C, gusts to 48 mph, 16.8 mm of rain forecast.

Sat 12 Sep
🌧️
13° / 6°
💨 48 mph
🌧 16.8 mm (100%)
Sun 13 Sep
🌦️
12° / 8°
💨 18 mph
🌧 0.1 mm (12%)
Mon 14 Sep
🌦️
14° / 11°
💨 35 mph
🌧 2.9 mm (100%)
Tue 15 Sep
🌦️
13° / 8°
💨 35 mph
🌧 5.0 mm (98%)
Wed 16 Sep
🌦️
10° / 7°
💨 27 mph
🌧 1.3 mm (54%)
Thu 17 Sep
🌦️
9° / 7°
💨 34 mph
🌧 9.3 mm (97%)
Fri 18 Sep
🌦️
10° / 7°
💨 35 mph
🌧 10.2 mm (92%)

Forecast snapshot from 12 Sep 2026, 18:50 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 794 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.

Green Side (White Stones) at a glance

Green Side (White Stones)

Green Side at 794m (2,605ft) is a high Birkett top on the ridge above Glenridding in the Eastern Fells, part of the broad plateau between Sticks Pass and the Helvellyn range. The summit, also known as White Stones, gives fine views across Ullswater and towards the Pennines. Part of the high ground normally traversed on routes between Sticks Pass and Raise.

Routes up Green Side (White Stones)

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

Classifications & hill data

Birkett
Synge
Nuttall
794 m
Height
2,605 ft
In feet
NY 3527 1875
Grid ref

The short answers

Is Green Side (White Stones) a Wainwright?

Green Side (White Stones) is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett list, the Synge list and the Nuttall list.

Where do you park for Green Side (White Stones)?

We hold no car park within 2.5 km of the summit, so there is no short walk-in to recommend here. 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.

How hard is Green Side (White Stones)?

The shortest way up we hold is Hart Side, Stybarrow Dodd, Raise, Watson's Dodd and more — 24.4 km, 816 m of ascent, about 6.2 hours. On our scale its hardest axis is steepness — Severe.

All axes: steepness: Severe · length: Severe · navigation: Hard · exposure: Moderate · terrain: Moderate.

My hikes over Green Side (White Stones) (Strava)

1 logged hike pass over this summit:

Interactive route maps and photos load here for visitors with JavaScript. Data from Strava.

Parking & buses for Green Side (White Stones)

Best parking to hike Green Side (White Stones)

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

Glencoyne (NT, paid) — 3.4 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Brown Hills (1.0 km), Swineside Knott (1.1 km), Glenridding Dodd (1.5 km). Fees: pay and display - the machine takes coins only, (LDNPA, checked Aug 2026).
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Roadside parking for Great How (free) — 3.4 km from summit (straight line)
0.5 km from Great How. Added from the 5 Aug 2026 OSM candidate review.
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Glenridding Dodd, north-east (layby) — 3.4 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Glenridding Dodd (0.9 km), Heron Pike (Glenridding) (1.4 km), Brown Hills (1.5 km). Free (OSM-tagged).
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Brown Hills (layby) — 3.5 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Brown Hills (1.2 km), Glenridding Dodd (1.3 km), Swineside Knott (1.3 km). Free (OSM-tagged).
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Great How (layby) — 3.5 km from summit (straight line)
Community walk pages start here for 'The Dodds and Clough Head, via Sticks Pass and St John's in the Vale' (community walk listings). Free (OSM-tagged). Unpaved surface (OSM-tagged).
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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 Green Side (White Stones) by bus

The 509 stops at Dockray, outside The Royal Hotel. From there it is 1.6 km and 130 m of ascent to the start of Hart Side, Stybarrow Dodd, Raise, Watson's Dodd and more — a walk in before the walk. The last bus is 19:09 towards Troutbeck (UB1) and 18:02 towards Grasmere (559) and 16:12 towards Keswick (509), every day. Checked against the operator’s timetable, 7 September 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.

Stagecoach 509
Penrith ↔ Keswick around Ullswater — calls at Pooley Bridge, Watermillock, Glenridding, Patterdale, Hartsop, Dockray, Matterdale, Mungrisdale and Threlkeld
Catch it from: Penrith · Keswick
The Ullswater side of the Penrith–Keswick corridor, and a second option where we previously showed only the 508. Reaches Helvellyn and Catstye Cam from Glenridding, Place Fell and Angletarn Pikes from Patterdale, the Hartsop fells, and Gowbarrow from Dockray. Frequency and season are not listed here because we have not verified a timetable — check Stagecoach before you rely on it. Note the Troutbeck on this route is the one on the A66 near Penrith, not the Troutbeck near Windermere.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

Hazards on Green Side (White Stones)

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

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

Nearest parking: Glencoyne (NT, paid), about 3.4 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Green Side (White Stones) (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.

1.6 km NEBirkett Fell725 m · Eastern
2.3 km NWLittle Dodd (St John's Common)785 m · Eastern
2.3 km ESEHeron Pike (Glenridding)612 m · Eastern
2.3 km NRanderside729 m · Eastern
2.6 km ENEBrown Hills551 m · Eastern
2.7 km WSWBrown Crag610 m · Eastern
2.8 km ENESwineside Knott553 m · Eastern

Routes over Green Side (White Stones)

24.44 km · ~816 m ascent · loop · ~6–8 h

⬇️ Download GPX

Full route guide ↗

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

Places to stay near this fell

Lowthwaite Bed and Breakfast (opens in new tab) guest house

about 4.0 km from the start, in a straight line

The only property in this radius that answers the child questions with objects instead of sentiment - a cot, high chair(s) and special cutlery are itemised, and the Matterdale and Helvellyn rooms share a private vestibule so a family sleeps as one unit rather than across a corridor. The Helvellyn room additionally takes three on "the enormous settee cum third bed with a proper matress". A drying room sits in the all-rooms facilities list. It is also the only evidenced bed in the same Matterdale valley as this start, 0.66 km nearer than anything on the Glenridding side, and the fell they name for small legs, Little Mell Fell, is behind the house. Against it: no dog or pet word appears anywhere in four cached pages, no breakfast time is published, and the email is obfuscated site-wide so the footer phone number is the only contact route the cache supports.

Most of the furniture was made by hand in Tanzania, where the owners previously ran a business arranging Kilimanjaro climbs; the bathrooms have wooden floors salvaged from the old farmhouse's living-room floorboards.

  • Drying room “Use of guidebooks and other books, Maps (for planning and laminated for walks), Drying room, and Fridge (in the Dining Room).”
  • Family rooms “Matterdale and Helvellyn rooms are connected via a small, private vestibule and together they are ideal for a family or a group of friends.”
  • Parking “Another alternative is to use what3words where our car park is primed.lavished.amounting”
  • Children “We are very happy to welcome children of all ages.”

What each place says about itself, quoted from their own site. We have not stayed at any of them, and there are no prices, no booking and no affiliate links. Distances are straight lines from each route start, never walking times. Properties found via OpenStreetMap (opens in new tab).

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