⛰️ High Rigg (Naddle Fell)

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

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356 mWainwright — Eastern Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+6 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

High Rigg at 357m (1,171ft) is a delightful, craggy ridge above St John's in the Vale — one of the most pleasant low-level walks in the Eastern Fells, its heathery knolls giving fine views of Blencathra, Helvellyn and the Vale of St John from multiple viewpoints. The traverse of the full ridge from Newsham to Legburthwaite is a classic short walk. Fine views of Blencathra's great southern face throughout.

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 SSWHigh Rigg (High Rigg South Top)343 m · Eastern
2.0 km SSEWren Crag311 m · Eastern
2.4 km ESECalfhow Pike660 m · Eastern
2.4 km ENEThrelkeld Knotts514 m · Eastern
2.7 km SSECastle Rock339 m · Eastern
2.8 km SSWThe Benn (Sippling Crag)446 m · Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over High Rigg (Naddle Fell) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Legburthwaite (United Utilities, small) — 2.6 km from summit (straight line)
St John's in the Vale — Sticks Pass side, High Rigg, Raven Crag.
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Threlkeld village (free/donation) — 3.6 km from summit (straight line)
Blencathra via Hall's Fell ridge; Clough Head across the valley.
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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 X4 / X5
Penrith – Rheged – Threlkeld – Keswick – Braithwaite – Cockermouth – Workington
Catch it from: Penrith
Year-round, frequent. From Penrith this is your way into Keswick and the Northern fells — Threlkeld/Scales stops serve Blencathra directly, Braithwaite serves the Coledale fells.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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