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.
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 (Sat 12 Sep): 14° to 9°C, gusts to 46 mph, 26.9 mm of rain forecast.
Forecast snapshot from 12 Sep 2026, 18:50 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.
Kinmont Buck Barrow at a glance
Getting there
Classifications & hill data
The short answers
Is Kinmont Buck Barrow a Wainwright?
Kinmont Buck Barrow is one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells, not one of the 214 in the Pictorial Guides. It is also on the Birkett list and the Synge list.
Where do you park for Kinmont Buck Barrow?
The nearest car park we hold is Corney Fell road summit (verge), about 1.4 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is Kinmont Buck Barrow (layby), 1.4 km out. We only look within 2.5 km, measured straight-line: over longer distances a road may cross a pass and the drive bears no relation to the line.
Routes up Kinmont Buck Barrow
No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest routes we publish start close by:
- Around Sele Bottom — starts 1.4 km away
- Awkward Around Swinside Fell — starts 1.4 km away
- Ulpha Birketts — starts 5.4 km away
Parking & buses for Kinmont Buck Barrow
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).
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.
Vehicles are left entirely at their owner’s risk. We list places people park; we cannot vouch for any of them. Judge it on the day: take valuables with you, leave nothing on show, and if a spot feels wrong when you get there, park somewhere else.
Getting to Kinmont Buck Barrow by bus
The nearest bus stop we hold is the 505 at Coniston, outside John Ruskin School, 20.4 km of walking from the start — not realistically reachable without a car.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Hazards on Kinmont Buck Barrow
No hazard card for this fell. The usual open-fell rules apply: check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected.
Map & nearby Birketts
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.
Nearest parking: Corney Fell road summit (verge), about 1.4 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.
On the hill: terrain and water on Kinmont Buck Barrow
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 144 fells.