⛰️ Kepple Crag

328 m · Birkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit) · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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328 mBirkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)+10 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Kepple Crag at 426m (1,398ft) is a small rocky summit above the Yewdale valley near Coniston, its craggy top giving views across to the Coniston Fells. A Birkett fell in the lower country between Coniston village and the higher fells. The ascent from the Yewdale road is short. A pleasant short walk above the wooded Yewdale valley.

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.

1.0 km SGreat Whinscale427 m · Southern
1.2 km SCrook Crag469 m · Southern
1.9 km NNEGoat Crag312 m · Southern
2.1 km SBroad Crag - Birker Fell372 m · Southern
2.4 km EDemming Crag525 m · Southern
2.4 km NWhin Crag (Eskdale)358 m · Southern
2.4 km SSWBirker Fell - Great Crag333 m · Southern
2.5 km SSEBirker Fell - White How444 m · Southern
2.7 km ENEHorsehow Crags433 m · Southern
2.8 km NDawsonground Crags397 m · Southern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Kepple Crag (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Hardknott Pass (roadside pull-ins) — 2.8 km from summit (straight line)
Limited pull-ins near the pass summit for Hard Knott and Harter Fell. Don't block passing places.
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Dalegarth Station, Eskdale (paid) — 2.9 km from summit (straight line)
Pay & display at the La'al Ratty terminus — Eskdale fells, Harter Fell, Green Crag.
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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

Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway (“La'al Ratty”)
Ravenglass (Cumbrian Coast main line) – Eskdale Green – Dalegarth for Boot
Catch it from: Connects from the Cumbrian Coast line (not from Penrith/Ambleside/Windermere directly)
Not a bus, but the only public transport into Eskdale. Wasdale has no public transport at all — car (or a long walk in) is the realistic option for the Wasdale fells.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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