⛰️ High Rigg (High Rigg South Top)

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

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343 mBirkett — Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)+7 bonus Birketts within 3 km

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🎯 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.

1.6 km SEWren Crag311 m · Eastern
2.2 km SSWThe Benn (Sippling Crag)446 m · Eastern
2.3 km SECastle Rock339 m · Eastern
2.4 km ECalfhow Pike660 m · Eastern
2.7 km SSWCastle Crag (Shoulthwalte)404 m · Eastern
2.8 km NEThrelkeld Knotts514 m · Eastern
2.8 km SSEGreat How (Thirlmere)333 m · Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over High Rigg (High Rigg South Top) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Legburthwaite (United Utilities, small) — 2.1 km from summit (straight line)
St John's in the Vale — Sticks Pass side, High Rigg, Raven Crag.
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Great Wood, Keswick (NT, paid) — 3.7 km from summit (straight line)
Under Walla Crag on the Borrowdale road.
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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 555
Kendal – Staveley – Windermere – Ambleside – Rydal – Grasmere – Thirlmere (Wythburn & Swirls) – Keswick
Catch it from: Windermere · Ambleside
Year-round, roughly hourly. The backbone bus of the A591 — ideal for Helvellyn (Wythburn/Swirls), Fairfield, the Central fells and anything around Grasmere/Rydal. From Penrith, take the X4/X5 to Keswick and change.
Stagecoach 78 “Borrowdale Rambler”
Keswick – Lodore – Grange – Rosthwaite – Seatoller
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 or X4/X5)
Year-round, frequent in season. Serves all the Borrowdale starts — Glaramara, the Scafells and Great Gable via Seathwaite (alight Seatoller, 20 min walk up the lane).

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

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