⛰️ High Raise (High White Stones)

762 m · Wainwright — Central Fells · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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762 mWainwright — Central Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+5 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

High Raise at 762m (2,500ft) is the central summit of the Lake District — literally and figuratively. Wainwright noted that it commands a view of almost every major fell in the district, a great 360-degree panorama that is almost unmatched for sheer breadth. The summit is a broad, grassy plateau, and its central position means that no approach is particularly long or difficult — the fell can be reached easily from Langdale, Grasmere, Borrowdale or Thirlmere. The Langdale Pikes are its dramatic near neighbours to the south. The summit is the starting point for descent to Stickle Tarn and the Langdale valley.

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.

0.5 km NNELow White Stones731 m · Central
0.9 km ESECodale Head732 m · Central
1.7 km NLining Crag542 m · Central
2.4 km SThorn Crag644 m · Central
2.9 km WSWBlack Crags (Mickleden)588 m · Southern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over High Raise (High White Stones) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Old Dungeon Ghyll (NT, paid) — 3.3 km from summit (straight line)
Head of Great Langdale — Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco, the Langdale Pikes.
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Stickle Ghyll / New Dungeon Ghyll (NT, paid) — 3.9 km from summit (straight line)
Direct start up Stickle Ghyll for the Langdale Pikes.
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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 516 “Langdale Rambler”
Ambleside – Skelwith Bridge – Elterwater – New Dungeon Ghyll – Old Dungeon Ghyll
Catch it from: Ambleside · Windermere (change at Ambleside)
The Langdale bus — Pikes, Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco all walkable from the Dungeon Ghyll stops. Seasonal frequency varies; check before relying on the last bus back.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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