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High Light Haw

Short entry: no route or hazard notes for this fell yet.

Nearest route starts ↓
263 mOutlying Fell — South Lakeland+2 bonus Birketts within 3 km

High Light Haw (263 m / 863 ft) is the higher of a low twin pair of heather-and-birch knolls on Bethecar Moor, east of the southern end of Coniston Water and 1.0 km south-west of Arnsbarrow Hill.

Summit conditions on High Light Haw

On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 14° to 8°C, gusts to 42 mph, 1.8 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.

Full 7-day summit forecast ↓

The forecast figures are Open-Meteo’s, worked out for the summit’s height. How we check →

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Parking & buses

Crab Haws car park, Bethecar Moor (free)
0.8 km from summit (straight line)
Low Light Haw, south-west (layby)
1.8 km from summit (straight line)

Parking & buses ↓

Routes near High Light Haw

No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest route starts we publish, in a straight line from the summit:

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Modelled for the 263 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

Full 7-day forecast
Tue 27 Oct
14° / 8°
42 mph
1.8 mm (100%)
Wed 28 Oct
12° / 9°
34 mph
6.4 mm (100%)
Thu 29 Oct
11° / 9°
18 mph
0.0 mm (14%)
Fri 30 Oct
11° / 8°
19 mph
0.0 mm (29%)
Sat 31 Oct
12° / 4°
9 mph
0.0 mm (20%)
Sun 1 Nov
10° / 4°
9 mph
0.0 mm (12%)
Mon 2 Nov
9° / 3°
16 mph
0.0 mm (0%)

Taken 27 October 2026, 08:13 UTC; the live forecast replaces it when it loads. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Parking & buses for High Light Haw

Parking

Crab Haws car park, Bethecar Moor (free) — 0.8 km from summit (straight line)
Small, free car park about 0.8 miles N of High Nibthwaite (OS SD 296 909; what3words ///fault.swordfish.insect). The hidden entrance is immediately after a field on the right. The natural start for the quiet Bethecar Moor / Blawith Birketts (Low & High Light Haw, Arnsbarrow Hill), with a path up through the woods. High Nibthwaite's own roadside laybys are very limited, so use Crab Haws to avoid blocking farm access.
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Low Light Haw, south-west (layby) — 1.8 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Unnamed top (Top o' Selside) (1.0 km), Low Light Haw (1.4 km), Beacon Fell (1.5 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Ground surface (OSM-tagged).
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Rigg Wood Car Park — 1.8 km from summit (straight line)
Walking base for Top o' Selside (Wainwright summit), Arnsbarrow Hill and Stang Hill (Arnsbarrow Hill South Top) — the 'Top o' Selside' route starts 496 m away. Fee not verified — check signage on arrival.
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2 more places to park near High Light Haw
Low Light Haw (layby) — 2.0 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Unnamed top (Top o' Selside) (1.2 km), Low Light Haw (1.6 km), Wool Knott (1.6 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Ground surface (OSM-tagged).
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Wool Knott (layby) — 2.1 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Unnamed top (Top o' Selside) (1.2 km), Wool Knott (1.5 km), Low Light Haw (1.7 km). Free (OSM-tagged).
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Positions are approximate.

Vehicles are left at their owner’s risk: we list places people park and cannot vouch for any of them. Take valuables with you and leave nothing on show.

Buses

The nearest bus stop we hold is the 505 at Monk Coniston, at Hall, 8.4 km of walking from the nearest parking for this fell — no bus route we hold serves it.

Getting there across the Lake District: Buses · Parking map · By train · By boat

Hazards on High Light Haw

We have not written a hazard card for this fell yet, and that is not a sign that it is low-hazard. Check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected. The National Park Authority’s What to pack page, AdventureSmart’s hill walking kit list and Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s safety page are linked from our what to carry guide.

If you need Mountain Rescue

Dial 999 or 112 and ask for the Police, then Mountain Rescue.

Before you call, have ready: where you are (a grid reference if you can – the OS Locate app shows yours on your phone), what has happened, how many of you there are, and your mobile number.

Then stay where you are until the rescue team contacts you.

If you cannot make a voice call because of a hearing or speech impairment, emergency SMS works only if you have registered first: text “register” to 999.

From Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s guidance on calling them out (opens in new tab) (read 26 October 2026).

Map & nearby Birketts

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap, with SRTM elevation data (switch layers top-right).

Parking, toilets and buses: Parking & buses ↑.

Birketts within 3 km of High Light Haw

These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits. Distances are straight lines: check the ground and access on a map before adding one.

0.7 km ENEStang Hill (Arnsbarrow Hill South Top)316 m · Southern
1.0 km NEArnsbarrow Hill322 m · Southern

About High Light Haw

It stands just 0.4 km from its companion Low Light Haw, and the two are easily bagged together. A Wainwright Outlying Fell — a modest, peaceful top, all the more pleasant for its setting among the tarns and woods.

Classifications & hill data

Is High Light Haw a Wainwright?

High Light Haw is one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells, not one of the 214 in the Pictorial Guides.

Selected lists

263 m
Height
863 ft
In feet
SD 3033 9047
Grid ref

This is the summit’s grid reference. If you call from anywhere else, give your own position, not this one.

The summit is not a Birkett top.

Lists, height and summit position from the Database of British and Irish Hills; the feet are converted from its metres and the grid reference from that position. How we check →

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