Hugill Fell (Wainwright summit) Hiking Guide & Routes

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265 mOutlying Fell — South Lakelandsummit is not a Birkett top+0 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Hugill Fell at 318m (1,043ft) is a heathery fell above the Kentmere and Windermere area, its open top giving views of Windermere and the surrounding South Lakeland countryside. Wainwright included it in his Outlying Fells guide. A pleasant, easy walk in the lower fell country south-east of Windermere.

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.

🎯 Bonus Birketts within 3 km

No bonus Birketts within 3 km — every Birkett near here is already a Wainwright summit, so just enjoy the walk.

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Hugill Fell (Wainwright summit) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Staveley village (paid/free mix) — 1.6 km from summit (straight line)

For Reston Scar, Hugill Fell and Potter Fell.

Directions ↗

Kentmere Institute (donation, very limited) — 4.9 km from summit (straight line)

Tiny — arrive by 8am or use the verges lower down. Kentmere Horseshoe: Yoke, Ill Bell, Froswick, Kentmere Pike.

Directions ↗

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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