⛰️ Long Crag - Yewdale Fells

421 m · Birkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit) · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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421 mBirkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)+11 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Yewdale Fells at 420m (1,378ft) is a broad, heathery summit above the Yewdale valley near Coniston, giving views across the pastoral valley to the higher Coniston Fells beyond. A Birkett summit in the lower fell country north of Coniston. The ascent from Tilberthwaite or Yewdale gives pleasant walking through typical Lakeland fell country. Fine views of the Coniston Fells to the west.

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

🎯 Bonus Birketts 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.

0.2 km ENEHigh Wythow410 m · Southern
0.3 km WKitty Crag435 m · Southern
0.6 km ENELow Wythow372 m · Southern
1.0 km NNEBrackeny Crag364 m · Southern
2.2 km NBlake Rigg (Tilberthwaite)423 m · Southern
2.3 km NWBlack Sails745 m · Southern
2.4 km NHaystacks (Tilberthwaite)423 m · Southern
2.5 km NHawk Rigg441 m · Southern
2.7 km WNWGreat How (Swirl Band)775 m · Southern
2.7 km NBirk Fell Man - Birk Fell528 m · Southern
2.7 km NHigh Fell (Hawk Rigg)428 m · Southern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Long Crag - Yewdale Fells (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Coniston village (paid) — 1.4 km from summit (straight line)
Main village car parks — full Coniston round.
Directions ↗
Walna Scar Road, Coniston (free, rough track) — 2.1 km from summit (straight line)
High free car park above Coniston — Old Man, Dow Crag, Brown Pike with a head start.
Directions ↗

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

🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Stagecoach 505 “Coniston Rambler”
Windermere – Ambleside – Skelwith Bridge – Hawkshead – Coniston
Catch it from: Windermere · Ambleside
Daily in season (reduced winter service). Best access for the Coniston fells (Old Man, Wetherlam group).

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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