⛰️ Iron Crag (Ennerdale Fell)

📖 Key Information

Iron Crag at 640m (2,100ft) is a craggy summit above the Calder valley in the far west of the Lake District, its rocky top giving views across to the coast and inland to the high fells. Wainwright included it in the Western Fells, noting its isolated western position. The ascent from Ennerdale or Calder Bridge is across open fell. A remote, little-visited summit in a quiet corner of the western Lake District.

🎯 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.

🦶 My hikes over Iron Crag (Ennerdale Fell) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

No regular bus serves the start points for this fell — this is one for the car (or a long approach from the nearest served valley). The nearest hubs are Penrith (X4/X5 & 508), Ambleside and Windermere (555, 505, 516).

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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Other fells in this region

• Base Brown
• Brandreth
• Buckbarrow
• Burnbank Fell
• Caw Fell
• Crag Fell
• Fleetwith Pike
• Great Borne
• Great Gable
• Green Gable
• Grey Knotts
• Grike
• Haycock
• Haystacks (Buttermere)
• Hen Comb
• High Crag (Buttermere)
• High Stile
• Illgill Head
• Kirk Fell
• Lank Rigg
• Mellbreak (Mellbreak South Top)
• Middle Fell
• Pillar
• Red Pike (Buttermere)
• Red Pike (Wasdale)
• Scoat Fell (Little Scoat Fell)
• Seatallan
• Starling Dodd
• Steeple
• Whin Rigg (Wasdale)
• Yewbarrow