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Birkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)Birkett top

Kepple Crag

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.

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

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

Modelled guidance for the 328 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 16° to 15°C, gusts to 26 mph, 2.8 mm of rain forecast.

Tue 28 Jul
🌦️
16° / 15°
💨 26 mph
🌧 2.8 mm (99%)
Wed 29 Jul
🌧️
16° / 13°
💨 23 mph
🌧 5.6 mm (100%)
Thu 30 Jul
🌦️
14° / 9°
💨 29 mph
🌧 2.8 mm (87%)
Fri 31 Jul
🌤️
16° / 5°
💨 23 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (86%)
Sat 1 Aug
🌦️
16° / 6°
💨 15 mph
🌧 3.3 mm (82%)
Sun 2 Aug
☁️
18° / 10°
💨 20 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (35%)
Mon 3 Aug
🌦️
19° / 9°
💨 15 mph
🌧 0.2 mm (23%)

Forecast snapshot from 28 Jul 2026, 04:58 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 328 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.

Pro mountain forecasts: MWIS · Met Office mountain forecast

About the walk

Key information

Kepple Crag

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.

Classifications & hill data
Birkett
Synge
328 m
Height
1,076 ft
In feet
SD 1988 9990
Grid ref

Map & nearby Birketts

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

Nearest parking: Dalegarth Station, Eskdale (paid), about 2.5 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Kepple 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.

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

Terrain & access

A near-path top (about 328 m): a mapped path comes within about 142 m of the summit, with a last stretch of open ground (about 16 m of ascent, up to ~23°). 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 145 fells.

Best parking to hike Kepple Crag

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

Dalegarth Station, Eskdale (paid) — 2.5 km from summit (straight line)
Pay & display at the La'al Ratty terminus — Eskdale fells, Harter Fell, Green Crag.
Directions
🚺 Dalegarth Station (263m) — Accessible☕ Fellbites Cafe
Devoke Water turning, Birker Fell road (verge) — 3.6 km from summit (straight line)
Rough free parking by the bridleway to Devoke Water for the Birker Fell group.
Directions

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

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

Buses to Kepple Crag 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.

Other fells near Kepple Crag

Maps & guidebooks for Kepple Crag

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