⛰️ Hopegill Head

770 m · Wainwright — North Western Fells · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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770 mWainwright — North Western Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+11 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Hopegill Head at 770m (2,526ft) is a pointed, airy summit above the head of the Hobcarton valley, its steep sides giving it a dramatic profile from the Whinlatter direction. Wainwright described it as a summit of character, its sharp ridge crest giving excellent views of the Grisedale Pike-Hobcarton ridge. The traverse via Hobcarton Crag and Sand Hill connects it naturally to Eel Crag on the Coledale Horseshoe. The views north to the Solway and west to the coast are fine from this high, exposed ridge.

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.

0.3 km SSESand Hill756 m · North Western
0.6 km NLadyside Pike704 m · North Western
0.7 km WGasgale Crags703 m · North Western
0.8 km EHobcarton Crag (Hobcarton Head)738 m · North Western
1.0 km WWhiteside East Top (Whiteside) (Gasgale Crags)719 m · North Western
1.5 km SSEEel Crag (Birkett)807 m · North Western
1.6 km NEHobcarton End634 m · North Western
1.9 km WNWDodd (Lorton)454 m · North Western
2.0 km NNWSwinside509 m · North Western
2.6 km SThirdgill Head Man734 m · North Western
3.0 km NNEWhinlatter Top525 m · North Western

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Hopegill Head (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Whinlatter Visitor Centre (paid) — 3.2 km from summit (straight line)
Forest centre — Lord's Seat, Barf, Whinlatter fells, Grisedale Pike's back route.
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Lanthwaite Green (NT) — 3.9 km from summit (straight line)
At the foot of Grasmoor and Whiteside, Crummock Water.
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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 77 / 77A “Honister Rambler”
Keswick – Portinscale – Hawse End (Catbells) – Grange – Seatoller – Honister Pass – Buttermere – Lorton – Whinlatter – Keswick (circular)
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 from Windermere/Ambleside or X4/X5 from Penrith)
Seasonal (roughly Easter–October). Brilliant for the North Western fells: Catbells, Dale Head from Honister, the Buttermere fells and Whinlatter.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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