⛰️ Hare Shaw

503 m · Outlying Fell — Around Penrith · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

503 mOutlying Fell — Around Penrith✓ summit is also a Birkett+6 bonus Birketts within 3 km

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

🎯 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.

0.8 km ENEPowleys Hill465 m · Far Eastern
1.4 km SWBrown Howe (Mardale)529 m · Far Eastern
1.9 km NNENaddle Low Forest426 m · Far Eastern
2.6 km ESEGlede Howe476 m · Far Eastern
2.9 km WCastle Crag (Mardale)395 m · Far Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Hare Shaw (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Wet Sleddale dam (free) — 3.0 km from summit (straight line)
For the quiet Shap-side fells: Seat Robert, Sleddale fells.
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Mardale Head, Haweswater (free) — 4.0 km from summit (straight line)
Free but small and fills very early — High Street, Harter Fell, Kidsty Pike, Branstree.
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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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