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Outlying Fell — West CumbriaAlso a Birkett

Kinmont Buck Barrow

Kinmont Buck Barrow at 510m (1,673ft) is a subsidiary summit on the Buck Barrow ridge above the Duddon estuary, giving fine coastal views towards the Irish Sea.

535 m
Height
+3
Bonus Birketts
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535 mOutlying Fell — West Cumbria✓ summit is also a Birkett+3 bonus Birketts within 3 km

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

Modelled guidance for the 535 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 15° to 14°C, gusts to 30 mph, 2.4 mm of rain forecast.

Tue 28 Jul
🌦️
15° / 14°
💨 30 mph
🌧 2.4 mm (90%)
Wed 29 Jul
🌦️
14° / 12°
💨 26 mph
🌧 2.5 mm (98%)
Thu 30 Jul
🌦️
13° / 7°
💨 28 mph
🌧 2.1 mm (70%)
Fri 31 Jul
🌦️
14° / 2°
💨 20 mph
🌧 0.3 mm (73%)
Sat 1 Aug
🌦️
15° / 5°
💨 16 mph
🌧 3.3 mm (47%)
Sun 2 Aug
☁️
16° / 8°
💨 23 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (24%)
Mon 3 Aug
🌦️
16° / 6°
💨 21 mph
🌧 0.4 mm (17%)

Forecast snapshot from 28 Jul 2026, 04:58 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 535 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

Kinmont Buck Barrow

Kinmont Buck Barrow at 510m (1,673ft) is a subsidiary summit on the Buck Barrow ridge above the Duddon estuary, giving fine coastal views towards the Irish Sea. Wainwright included it in his Outlying Fells guide as part of the western Cumbrian coastal fell group. The views south across Morecambe Bay and west to the Isle of Man on a clear day are excellent.

Classifications & hill data
Outlying Fell
West Cumbria
Birkett
Synge
535 m
Height
1,755 ft
In feet
SD 1467 9097
Grid ref

Map & nearby Birketts

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

Nearest parking: Corney Fell road summit (verge), about 1.8 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Kinmont Buck Barrow (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.

0.4 km ESEGreat Paddy Crag532 m · Western
1.5 km EPlough Fell448 m · Western
1.7 km SStoneside Hill422 m · Western

Terrain & access

A near-path top (about 535 m): a mapped path comes within about 93 m of the summit, with a last stretch of open ground (about 28 m of ascent, up to ~25°). 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 Kinmont Buck Barrow

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

Corney Fell road summit (verge) — 1.8 km from summit (straight line)
High verge start for Buck Barrow, Whit Fell and the Corney fells.
Directions
Devoke Water turning, Birker Fell road (verge) — 7.1 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 Kinmont Buck Barrow 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.

Other fells near Kinmont Buck Barrow

Maps & guidebooks for Kinmont Buck Barrow

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