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Birkett — Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)Birkett top

High Brow

High Brow at 442m (1,450ft) is a moorland summit above the Matterdale valley, giving open views across to the Northern and Eastern Fells.

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

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

Modelled guidance for the 575 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 16° to 14°C, gusts to 36 mph, 3.3 mm of rain forecast.

Tue 28 Jul
🌦️
16° / 14°
💨 36 mph
🌧 3.3 mm (100%)
Wed 29 Jul
🌧️
16° / 12°
💨 27 mph
🌧 4.3 mm (100%)
Thu 30 Jul
🌦️
14° / 6°
💨 29 mph
🌧 0.8 mm (78%)
Fri 31 Jul
🌤️
15° / 4°
💨 24 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (78%)
Sat 1 Aug
🌦️
15° / 6°
💨 12 mph
🌧 5.1 mm (54%)
Sun 2 Aug
☁️
16° / 4°
💨 18 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (24%)
Mon 3 Aug
🌦️
16° / 6°
💨 15 mph
🌧 0.4 mm (23%)

Forecast snapshot from 28 Jul 2026, 04:58 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 575 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.

Pro mountain forecasts: MWIS · Met Office mountain forecast

About the walk

Key information

High Brow

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.

Routes up High Brow

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

Birketts above Ullswater
16.5 km · ~4.4 hr
Classifications & hill data
Birkett
Synge
575 m
Height
1,886 ft
In feet
NY 3677 2140
Grid ref

Map & nearby Birketts

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

Nearest parking: Dockray (roadside), about 2.3 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near High Brow (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

Routes over High Brow

Birketts above UllswaterPlanned
16.45 km · ~694 m ascent · loop · ~4–6 h
Summits: Low HowHigh BrowRandersideGreat DoddStybarrow DoddHart SideBirkett FellBrown HillsRound HowBracken How

⬇️ Download GPX

Full route guide ↗

✎️ Planned route — drawn but not personally walked or checked yet.

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

Best parking to hike High Brow

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

Dockray (roadside) — 2.3 km from summit (straight line)
Verge parking for the Dodds and Matterdale Common.
Directions
Aira Force (NT, paid) — 3.2 km from summit (straight line)
For Gowbarrow Fell and the path toward Great Dodd via Dockray.
Directions
🚺 Aira Force Car Park (130m) — Free · Accessible☕ Aira Force Tearooms

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.

Buses to High Brow 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.

Other fells near High Brow

Maps & guidebooks for High Brow

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