King's How - Grange Fell
King's How at 392m (1,286ft) is a top of Grange Fell above Borrowdale, 0.75 km west-north-west of Brund Fell, the fell's Wainwright summit.
Summit conditions on King's How - Grange Fell
On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 13° to 7°C, gusts to 62 mph, 11.4 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.
The forecast figures are Open-Meteo’s, worked out for the summit’s height. How we check →
Routes up King's How - Grange Fell
Hand-mapped, with GPX to download — full maps further down.
Borrowdale's small rough summits in one round: Castle Crag, King's How, Brund Fell and Great Crag, 14.1 km and 838 m.
Distance and climb are measured from the route’s GPX track, and the time from them by Naismith’s rule; the route page says what each grade rests on. How we check →
How hard is King's How - Grange Fell?
The shortest way up we hold is Castle Crag, Brund Fell & Great Crag — 14.11 km, 838 m of ascent, ~4–5¾ h. On our scale its hardest axes are distance and steepness — Hard.
All axes: length: Hard · steepness: Hard · terrain: Moderate · navigation: Moderate · exposure: Moderate.
These are the route page’s grades, set by the rules on how we grade: length and steepness measured from its GPX track, the others set on the ground, judged from the map or estimated from OpenStreetMap. The route page says which. How we check →
Conditions and 7-day summit forecast
Modelled for the 392 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
Full 7-day forecast
Taken 27 October 2026, 08:13 UTC; the live forecast replaces it when it loads. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)
Parking & buses for King's How - Grange Fell
Parking
Route starts first, then the car parks nearest the summit, which are not always a way up.
2 more places to park near King's How - Grange Fell
Positions are approximate.
Vehicles are left at their owner’s risk: we list places people park and cannot vouch for any of them. Take valuables with you and leave nothing on show.
Buses
The 77 and 78 stop at Rosthwaite General Store (near), a 180 m walk from the start of Castle Crag, Brund Fell & Great Crag — a route we rate Hard overall (hardest: distance and steepness). The 77 runs until 1 November 2026, the last day of its season. As timetabled from 27 October to 1 November. Towards Keswick (78): Tuesday to Sunday 20:05. Checked against the operator’s timetable, 12 September 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Getting there across the Lake District: Buses · Parking map · By train · By boat
Hazards on King's How - Grange Fell
Notes from the Castle Crag, Brund Fell & Great Crag route
If you need to get off (the leg from Castle Crag): Turn around and descend the wooded paths directly back to the Borrowdale valley road.
Quoted from the route page: the note for the leg that reaches King's How - Grange Fell.
We have not written a hazard card for this fell yet, and that is not a sign that it is low-hazard. Read the warnings on the route pages that climb it, check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected. The National Park Authority’s What to pack page, AdventureSmart’s hill walking kit list and Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s safety page are linked from our what to carry guide.
If you need Mountain Rescue
Dial 999 or 112 and ask for the Police, then Mountain Rescue.
Before you call, have ready: where you are (a grid reference if you can – the OS Locate app shows yours on your phone), what has happened, how many of you there are, and your mobile number.
Then stay where you are until the rescue team contacts you.
If you cannot make a voice call because of a hearing or speech impairment, emergency SMS works only if you have registered first: text “register” to 999.
From Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s guidance on calling them out (opens in new tab) (read 26 October 2026).
Map, GPX and nearby Birketts
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap, with SRTM elevation data (switch layers top-right).
Parking, toilets and buses: Parking & buses ↑.
Birketts within 3 km of King's How - Grange Fell
No bonus Birketts within 3 km.
Routes over King's How - Grange Fell
Download GPX Walked by Lee, August 2025
Every line here is a guide, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate for yourself and carry a map and compass. How to use this guide.
On the hill: terrain and water on King's How - Grange Fell
Water & shelter on the way up
On the Castle Crag, Brund Fell & Great Crag route:
On-route facilities © OpenStreetMap contributors, per route — an absent marker doesn’t mean none.
About King's How - Grange Fell
My Strava hikes over King's How - Grange Fell
1 logged hike pass over this summit:
- Least favourite hike, should forget the Birketts and their dodgy tracks (opens in new tab) — 13.6 km · 790 m ascent · 4h 09m moving · 30 August 2025
Data from Strava.
Classifications & hill data
Is King's How - Grange Fell a Wainwright?
King's How - Grange Fell is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett list and the Synge list.
Selected lists
This is the summit’s grid reference. If you call from anywhere else, give your own position, not this one.
Lists, height and summit position from the Database of British and Irish Hills; the feet are converted from its metres and the grid reference from that position. How we check →
Places to stay near this fell
- Seatoller House B&B (opens in new tab) guest houseabout 1.6 km
We have not stayed at any of them. We take no bookings or affiliate fees. Distances are straight lines from each route start, never walking times. Properties found via OpenStreetMap (opens in new tab).