⛰️ High Tove

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

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515 mWainwright — Central Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+8 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

High Tove at 515m (1,690ft) is a modest, boggy summit on the Armboth plateau between Thirlmere and Borrowdale, its open top giving views across to the Helvellyn range and north to Skiddaw. Wainwright included it as part of the Central Fells group, noting its somewhat featureless character is offset by the fine views on clear days. The ascent from Watendlath is straightforward across moorland. A good viewpoint fell for the Helvellyn range and Thirlmere.

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.

0.7 km SMiddle Crag484 m · Central
0.9 km SEArmboth Fell (Birkett)479 m · Central
1.2 km SShivery Knott491 m · Central
1.6 km EFisher Crag421 m · Central
1.6 km SWatendlath Fell (Long Moss)515 m · Central
2.4 km SSEBell Crags (Long Moss) (Blea Tarn Fell)559 m · Central
2.5 km SEBrown Rigg462 m · Central
2.6 km NNECastle Crag (Shoulthwalte)404 m · Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over High Tove (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Watendlath (NT, paid) — 0.8 km from summit (straight line)
End of the narrow Watendlath road — Grange Fell, Great Crag, Armboth fells.
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Swirls, Thirlmere (paid) — 3.2 km from summit (straight line)
The standard west-side route up Helvellyn via Browncove Crags.
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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.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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