⛰️ High Brow

575 m · Birkett — Eastern (not a Wainwright summit) · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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575 mBirkett — Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)+8 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

High Brow at 442m (1,450ft) is a moorland summit above the Matterdale valley, giving open views across to the Northern and Eastern Fells. A quiet Birkett summit in the less-visited country between the northern Dodds and the Vale of Eden. The ascent from Matterdale or Dockray is easy. Fine views east to the Pennines on a clear day.

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.

0.7 km ELow How497 m · Eastern
1.6 km SBirkett Fell725 m · Eastern
1.7 km ESECommon Fell552 m · Eastern
1.9 km WRanderside729 m · Eastern
2.0 km SESwineside Knott553 m · Eastern
2.2 km SSEBrown Hills551 m · Eastern
2.5 km ESERound How387 m · Eastern
2.5 km EBracken How373 m · Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over High Brow (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Dockray (roadside) — 1.7 km from summit (straight line)
Verge parking for the Dodds and Matterdale Common.
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Aira Force (NT, paid) — 3.5 km from summit (straight line)
For Gowbarrow Fell and the path toward Great Dodd via Dockray.
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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

Stagecoach 508 “Ullswater Bus”
Penrith – Pooley Bridge – Aira Force – Glenridding – Patterdale (summer services continue over Kirkstone Pass to Troutbeck and Windermere)
Catch it from: Penrith · Windermere (summer only)
The key route from Penrith for the Eastern and Far Eastern fells: Helvellyn from Glenridding, Place Fell, the Hartsop fells. The summer Kirkstone extension drops you at the pass for Red Screes and Caudale Moor.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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