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Kirk Fell East Top (Kirk Fell North Top)

Kirk Fell East Top (Kirk Fell North Top) is a Birkett (one of the 541 tops in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells), a quiet Western top reached by few walkers.

787 m
Height
+3
Bonus Birketts
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787 mBirkett — Western (not a Wainwright summit)+3 bonus Birketts within 3 km

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

Modelled guidance for the 787 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Fri 11 Sep): 10° to 8°C, gusts to 26 mph, 1.8 mm of rain forecast.

Fri 11 Sep
🌦️
10° / 8°
💨 26 mph
🌧 1.8 mm (100%)
Sat 12 Sep
🌧️
13° / 8°
💨 51 mph
🌧 47.8 mm (100%)
Sun 13 Sep
🌦️
11° / 7°
💨 20 mph
🌧 0.2 mm (74%)
Mon 14 Sep
🌧️
13° / 6°
💨 33 mph
🌧 18.7 mm (96%)
Tue 15 Sep
🌧️
12° / 7°
💨 32 mph
🌧 13.2 mm (100%)
Wed 16 Sep
🌦️
9° / 7°
💨 34 mph
🌧 6.0 mm (96%)
Thu 17 Sep
🌦️
9° / 7°
💨 38 mph
🌧 11.6 mm (98%)

Forecast snapshot from 11 Sep 2026, 08:30 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 787 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

Kirk Fell East Top (Kirk Fell North Top) at a glance

Kirk Fell East Top (Kirk Fell North Top)

Kirk Fell East Top (Kirk Fell North Top) is a Birkett (one of the 541 tops in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells), a quiet Western top reached by few walkers. It rises Wasdale. The name comes from fell (Old Norse fjall, a mountain or hill). It also features on the Synge, Nuttall lists. Its nearest tops are Kirk Fell (0.5 km SW); Great Gable (1.2 km E); Green Gable (1.5 km E) — it's usually taken in on a round of these neighbours. It's a worthwhile objective for anyone working through the Birkett list, or as a short extension to a bigger day on the higher neighbouring fells.

Getting there

🅿️ Car park for Yewbarrow (free)
1.3 km from Yewbarrow. Added from the 5 Aug 2026 OSM candidate review.
🅿️ Lake Head, Wasdale (NT, paid)
Walking base for Great Gable, Kirk Fell and Scafell Pike — the 'Great Gable & Kirk Fell' route starts 10 m away. Also serves 'Scafell Pike from Wasdale, by Lingmell Col'. National Trust's access statement records a pay-and-display machine here (National Trust, January 2024) but does not say which payment methods it takes; the same document notes mobile reception is poor across Wasdale, so carry coins as well as a card. Compacted surface (OSM-tagged). Toilets on site.

Full parking & bus details ↓

Right now on the summit

🌦️ 10°low 8°C
Gusts26 mph

Full 7-day summit forecast →

Classifications & hill data

Birkett
Synge
Nuttall
787 m
Height
2,582 ft
In feet
NY 1991 1070
Grid ref

The short answers

Is Kirk Fell East Top (Kirk Fell North Top) a Wainwright?

Kirk Fell East Top (Kirk Fell North Top) is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett list, the Synge list and the Nuttall list.

Where do you park for Kirk Fell East Top (Kirk Fell North Top)?

We hold no car park within 2.5 km of the summit, so there is no short walk-in to recommend here. 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 Kirk Fell East Top (Kirk Fell North Top)

No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest routes we publish start close by:

Parking & buses for Kirk Fell East Top (Kirk Fell North Top)

Best parking to hike Kirk Fell East Top (Kirk Fell North Top)

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

Car park for Yewbarrow (free) — 2.5 km from summit (straight line)
1.3 km from Yewbarrow. Added from the 5 Aug 2026 OSM candidate review.
Directions Something changed here?
Lake Head, Wasdale (NT, paid) — 3.6 km from summit (straight line)
Walking base for Great Gable, Kirk Fell and Scafell Pike — the 'Great Gable & Kirk Fell' route starts 10 m away. Also serves 'Scafell Pike from Wasdale, by Lingmell Col'. National Trust's access statement records a pay-and-display machine here (National Trust, January 2024) but does not say which payment methods it takes; the same document notes mobile reception is poor across Wasdale, so carry coins as well as a card. Compacted surface (OSM-tagged). Toilets on site.
Directions Something changed here?
Wasdale Head (NT car park) — 3.6 km from summit (straight line)
National Trust, pay & display (free for members). The classic base for Scafell Pike, Great Gable, Kirk Fell, Yewbarrow. Fills very early. Fees: £7 up to 2 hours; £8.50 up to 4 hours; £10 all day. Charges apply at all times (NT, checked Aug 2026). Free for NT members (checked Aug 2026).
🕑 Typically full before 10:00 on fine weekends, Apr-Oct — Lee McCoy, local observation, 2026-08-09.
Directions Something changed here?
If it is full: Overbeck Bridge, Wastwater (NT, paid) (2.0 km); Greendale, Nether Wasdale (roadside, free) (4.3 km)
🍺 Wasdale Head Inn
Honister Pass (paid, slate mine) — 3.8 km from summit (straight line)
Pay & display at the top of the pass — Dale Head, Fleetwith Pike, Grey Knotts with minimal ascent. This is the slate mine's own car park, the WESTERN one; the National Trust car park 170 m east is a separate one. Fees: Day parking GBP 5 per day for visitors; free for all Honister activity guests (honister.com/your-visit/). Overnight parking GBP 15 a night in the large bottom car park, open to campervans, motorhomes and vans, no tent camping, no facilities, no electric hook-ups; book online or pay by QR code on arrival and display confirmation on the dashboard (honister.com/your-visit/overnight-parking) (operator, checked Aug 2026). You pay by card, inside the building, not at a machine in the car park. The posted opening is 9am but it is often later; the mine is content for you to arrive before it and pay on the way out, and the car park is covered by cameras (Lee McCoy, local observation, recorded 12 Aug 2026). Pay and display (LDNPA, checked Aug 2026).
🕑 Typically full before 10:00 on fine weekends, Apr-Oct — Lee McCoy, local observation, 2026-08-09.
Directions Something changed here?
If it is full: Seatoller (NT, paid) (2.3 km)
🚺 Public toilets (~136 m straight line) — Free🚺 Public toilets (~1825 m straight line) — Free☕ Sky Hi Cafe
Honister (NT, paid) — 3.9 km from summit (straight line)
Walking base for Great Gable, Green Gable, Brandreth and Grey Knotts — the 'Great Gable from Honister Slate Mine' route starts 61 m away. Also serves 'Haystacks'. Paid National Trust car park - the prices we used to show here came from an aggregator rather than the Trust, so we no longer publish a figure; check the machine on arrival, and members should bring their card (National Trust car-park list, checked Aug 2026). The machine takes cards, and National Trust members park free on production of their membership card (Lee McCoy, local observation, recorded 12 Aug 2026).
Directions Something changed here?

Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm.

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 Kirk Fell East Top (Kirk Fell North Top) by bus

We don’t know yet. Wasdale Explorer (seasonal) serves this area, but we don’t hold its stop positions, so we can’t measure the walk from it — and we won’t tell you to drive on the strength of a gap in our own data. Check the operator’s timetable.

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

Hazards on Kirk Fell East Top (Kirk Fell North Top)

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

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

Nearest parking: Car park for Yewbarrow (free), about 2.5 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Kirk Fell East Top (Kirk Fell North Top) (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.

1.7 km NWLooking Stead (Pillar)628 m · Western
2.8 km SWYewbarrow North Top (Stirrup Crag)617 m · Western
3.0 km ESESeathwaite Fell (Great Slack)631 m · Southern

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