⛰️ Humphrey Head

53 m · Outlying Fell — South Lakeland · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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

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 Humphrey Head (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Grange-over-Sands (paid + railway station) — 4.5 km from summit (straight line)
Hampsfell (Hampsfield Fell) and its hospice viewpoint straight from the town. Train access on the Furness line.
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Mill Side, Whitbarrow (verge) — 12.0 km from summit (straight line)
For Whitbarrow (Lord's Seat) — limestone pavement and easy walking.
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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 X6
Kendal – Levens – Grange-over-Sands – Ulverston – Barrow (A590 corridor)
Catch it from: Kendal/Windermere (change at Kendal)
Year-round. Handy for the South Lakeland outliers: Whitbarrow (Mill Side area), Gummer's How (Newby Bridge) and Hampsfell (Grange-over-Sands, which also has trains).

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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