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Birkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)Birkett top

Ill Crag

Ill Crag at 935m (3,068ft) is one of the three satellite summits crowning the broad ridge that connects Great End to Scafell Pike.

931 m
Height
+8
Bonus Birketts
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931 mBirkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)+8 bonus Birketts within 3 km

Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast

Modelled guidance for the 931 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Fri 11 Sep): 9° to 7°C, gusts to 32 mph, 3.3 mm of rain forecast.

Fri 11 Sep
🌦️
9° / 7°
💨 32 mph
🌧 3.3 mm (100%)
Sat 12 Sep
🌧️
12° / 7°
💨 54 mph
🌧 54.5 mm (100%)
Sun 13 Sep
🌦️
10° / 6°
💨 21 mph
🌧 0.7 mm (74%)
Mon 14 Sep
🌧️
12° / 5°
💨 33 mph
🌧 18.7 mm (96%)
Tue 15 Sep
🌧️
11° / 6°
💨 32 mph
🌧 13.2 mm (100%)
Wed 16 Sep
🌦️
8° / 6°
💨 34 mph
🌧 6.0 mm (96%)
Thu 17 Sep
🌦️
8° / 6°
💨 38 mph
🌧 11.6 mm (98%)

Forecast snapshot from 11 Sep 2026, 08:30 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 931 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.

Ill Crag at a glance

Ill Crag

Ill Crag at 935m (3,068ft) is one of the three satellite summits crowning the broad ridge that connects Great End to Scafell Pike. Wainwright included it as a separate fell in his Southern Fells guide, noting its rocky, boulder-strewn summit offers an unusual perspective on the Scafell massif. Most walkers pass over it en route to the Pike via the Corridor Route, rarely pausing to acknowledge it as a summit in its own right. The views north to Great Gable and the Gable Crag are excellent. Combined with Broad Crag and Great End, it makes this one of the richest ridge walks in the district.

Getting there

🅿️ Car park for Yewbarrow (free)
1.3 km from Yewbarrow. Added from the 5 Aug 2026 OSM candidate review.
🅿️ Wasdale Head (NT car park)
National Trust, pay & display (free for members). The classic base for Scafell Pike, Great Gable, Kirk Fell, Yewbarrow. Fills very early. Fees: £7 up to 2 hours; £8.50 up to 4 hours; £10 all day. Charges apply at all times (NT, checked Aug 2026). Free for NT members (checked Aug 2026).

Full parking & bus details ↓

Right now on the summit

🌦️ low 7°C
Gusts32 mph

Full 7-day summit forecast →

Classifications & hill data

Birkett
Synge
Nuttall
931 m
Height
3,054 ft
In feet
NY 2231 0735
Grid ref

The short answers

Is Ill Crag a Wainwright?

Ill Crag is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett list, the Synge list and the Nuttall list.

Where do you park for Ill Crag?

We hold no car park within 2.5 km of the summit, so there is no short walk-in to recommend here. We only look within 2.5 km, measured straight-line: over longer distances a road may cross a pass and the drive bears no relation to the line.

Routes up Ill Crag

No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest routes we publish start close by:

Parking & buses for Ill Crag

Best parking to hike Ill Crag

Where we have the data, each parking spot also shows the nearest public toilets and facilities (cafés, pubs, shops).

Car park for Yewbarrow (free) — 3.8 km from summit (straight line)
1.3 km from Yewbarrow. Added from the 5 Aug 2026 OSM candidate review.
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Wasdale Head (NT car park) — 4.0 km from summit (straight line)
National Trust, pay & display (free for members). The classic base for Scafell Pike, Great Gable, Kirk Fell, Yewbarrow. Fills very early. Fees: £7 up to 2 hours; £8.50 up to 4 hours; £10 all day. Charges apply at all times (NT, checked Aug 2026). Free for NT members (checked Aug 2026).
🕑 Typically full before 10:00 on fine weekends, Apr-Oct — Lee McCoy, local observation, 2026-08-09.
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If it is full: Overbeck Bridge, Wastwater (NT, paid) (2.0 km); Greendale, Nether Wasdale (roadside, free) (4.3 km)

Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm.

Tip: pan and zoom the interactive map at the top of this page to spot other potential parking near your route.

Vehicles are left entirely at their owner’s risk. We list places people park; we cannot vouch for any of them. Judge it on the day: take valuables with you, leave nothing on show, and if a spot feels wrong when you get there, park somewhere else.

Getting to Ill Crag by bus

We don’t know yet. Wasdale Explorer (seasonal) serves this area, but we don’t hold its stop positions, so we can’t measure the walk from it — and we won’t tell you to drive on the strength of a gap in our own data. Check the operator’s timetable.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

Hazards on Ill Crag

No hazard card for this fell. The usual open-fell rules apply: check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected.

Map & nearby Birketts

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

Nearest parking: Car park for Yewbarrow (free), about 3.8 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Ill Crag (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 WNWBroad Crag935 m · Southern
0.6 km SSWPen762 m · Southern
1.4 km ESEPike de Bield810 m · Southern
1.7 km SSEHigh Gait Crags572 m · Southern
2.4 km NSeathwaite Fell (Great Slack)631 m · Southern
2.4 km SScar Lathing439 m · Southern
3.0 km EBuck Pike (Mickleden)606 m · Southern

On the hill: terrain and water on Ill Crag

Terrain & access

A near-path top (about 931 m): a mapped path comes within about 114 m of the summit, with a last stretch of open ground (about 2 m of ascent, up to ~30°). The summit is on CRoW open access land.

Computed from open data, not walked — pathless ground needs confident navigation, and mapped paths, barriers and access boundaries can be incomplete. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (via Overpass); Natural England CRoW Access Land; DoBIH; Copernicus GLO-30. See the terrain & access report for how this is worked out across all 144 fells.

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