Wainwright — Northern FellsAlso a Birkett

Longlands Fell

Longlands Fell at 483m (1,585ft) is the lowest of the Back o' Skiddaw group, a pleasant, easy summit above Caldbeck giving views across the northern moorlands.

483 m

Height

~2.5–3 h

Typical time

Bonus Birketts

See routes & download GPX → Parking & buses →

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Written and walked by Lee McCoy

483 mWainwright — Northern Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+7 bonus Birketts within 3 km Straightforward in cloud

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

Modelled guidance for the 483 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Fri 11 Sep): 12° to 10°C, gusts to 31 mph, 1.9 mm of rain forecast.

Fri 11 Sep

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12° / 10°

💨 31 mph

🌧 1.9 mm (84%)

Sat 12 Sep

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15° / 10°

💨 48 mph

🌧 20.3 mm (100%)

Sun 13 Sep

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13° / 8°

💨 19 mph

🌧 0.1 mm (44%)

Mon 14 Sep

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15° / 8°

💨 31 mph

🌧 7.0 mm (88%)

Tue 15 Sep

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14° / 8°

💨 32 mph

🌧 4.1 mm (72%)

Wed 16 Sep

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12° / 9°

💨 32 mph

🌧 1.0 mm (63%)

Thu 17 Sep

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11° / 9°

💨 38 mph

🌧 3.2 mm (82%)

Forecast snapshot from 11 Sep 2026, 08:30 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 483 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

Longlands Fell at a glance

Longlands Fell

Longlands Fell at 483m (1,585ft) is the lowest of the Back o' Skiddaw group, a pleasant, easy summit above Caldbeck giving views across the northern moorlands. Wainwright included it as a separate fell, noting its role as an easy introduction to the Back o' Skiddaw area. The ascent from Longlands hamlet is very short. Most naturally part of the northern Skiddaw circuit. A gentle, accessible summit for all abilities.

Routes up Longlands Fell

Hand-mapped, with GPX to download — full maps further down.

A quiet Birkett

13 km · ~3.6 hr

Three low tops on the empty northern edge of the fells — Green How, Lowthwaite Fell and Longlands Fell — in a 13 km round with 587 m of climbing. No stage averages steeper than about 6%, and it is easy for exposure: about 3.6 hours of quiet walking.

North of Skiddaw

13.2 km · ~3.8 hr

Eight tops in the quiet grassy country north of Skiddaw — Longlands Fell, Brae Fell, the two Sca Fells, Meal Fell and Great Cockup among them. Gentle underfoot and rarely busy, but nearly a fifth of the line is featureless ground where a compass earns its keep.

Classifications & hill data

Wainwright

Northern

Birkett

Fellranger

Synge

483 m

Height

1,585 ft

In feet

NY 2759 3540

Grid ref

The short answers

Is Longlands Fell a Wainwright?

Longlands Fell is a Wainwright. It is also on the Birkett list, the Synge list and the Fellranger list.

Where do you park for Longlands Fell?

The nearest car park we hold is Longlands Fell car park, about 1.1 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is Roadside parking for Longlands Fell (free), 1.1 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.

How hard is Longlands Fell?

The shortest way up we hold is A quiet Birkett — 13 km, 587 m of ascent, about 3.6 hours. On our scale its hardest axis is steepness — Hard.

All axes: steepness: Hard · navigation: Moderate · terrain: Moderate · length: Moderate · exposure: Easy.

My hikes over Longlands Fell (Strava)

1 logged hike pass over this summit:

Got here early for parking, but too early for the weather. What a cock up. (opens in new tab) — 13.2 km · 721 m ascent · 3h 19m moving · 3 Aug 2024

Interactive route maps and photos load here for visitors with JavaScript. Data from Strava.

Parking & buses for Longlands Fell

Best parking to hike Longlands Fell

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

Longlands Fell car park — 1.1 km from summit (straight line)

Walking base for Longlands Fell, Lowthwaite Fell, Brae Fell and Little Sca Fell — the 'North of Skiddaw' route starts 1 m away. Unpaved surface (OSM-tagged). Fee not verified — check signage on arrival.

Directions Something changed here?

Roadside parking for Longlands Fell (free) — 1.1 km from summit (straight line)

1.1 km from Longlands Fell. Added from the 5 Aug 2026 OSM candidate review.

Directions Something changed here?

Little Cockup car park — 2.1 km from summit (straight line)

1.8 km from Little Cockup.

Directions Something changed here?

Green How (layby) — 2.4 km from summit (straight line)

Nearest fells: Green How - Aughertree Fell (0.5 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Unpaved surface (OSM-tagged).

Directions Something changed here?

Orthwaite Bank (layby) — 3.4 km from summit (straight line)

Nearest fells: Orthwaite Bank (0.7 km), Little Cockup (1.2 km), Cockup (1.8 km). Free (OSM-tagged).

Directions Something changed here?

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 Longlands Fell by bus

The nearest bus stop we hold is the X4 at Castle Inn (stop 6), 5.3 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 Longlands Fell

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.

Navigating Longlands Fell in cloud

Straightforward

A broad, gently-sloping top with little to steer by — easy to lose your bearings and hard to relocate in mist. Navigation here is relatively straightforward even in cloud — but carry map and compass and know how to use them; a low score never means “safe”.

In winter — snow, whiteout, cornices, buried features — every top demands full winter navigation skills whatever its band, and a broad, gentle summit can be the worst place of all. See walking in bad weather and the navigation guide.

How Longlands Fell compares with all 214 — the Clag Index: navigating in cloud. A relative, deliberately cautious guide; the site can’t navigate for you.

Map & nearby Birketts

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

Nearest parking: Longlands Fell car park, about 1.1 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Longlands Fell (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.

0.7 km SSELowthwaite Fell509 m · Northern

1.8 km SELittle Sca Fell633 m · Northern

2.2 km SWLittle Cockup399 m · Northern

2.5 km SSEFrozen Fell625 m · Northern

2.6 km SSEBurn Tod595 m · Northern

2.7 km SWOrthwaite Bank348 m · Northern

2.7 km NWGreen How - Aughertree Fell321 m · Northern

Routes over Longlands Fell

A quiet BirkettPlanned

12.99 km · ~587 m ascent · loop · ~3.5–5 h

Summits: Green How - Aughertree Fell Lowthwaite FellLonglands Fell

⬇️ Download GPX

⚠️ Warnings: The Longlands and Lowthwaite section is faint-trod heather and grass — about a third of the route follows drawn lines where no clear track exists. Bearings country in poor visibility.

Full route guide ↗

✎️ Planned route — drawn but not personally walked or checked yet.

A planned line is a suggestion, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate independently and carry a map & compass. How to use this guide.

North of SkiddawRevised

13.22 km · ~707 m ascent · loop · ~3.5–5 h

Summits: Longlands FellLowthwaite Fell Brae Fell Little Sca Fell Great Sca Fell Meal Fell Great Cockup Orthwaite Bank

⬇️ Download GPX

Full route guide ↗

A planned line is a suggestion, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate independently and carry a map & compass. How to use this guide.

The view from Longlands Fell

The 360° skyline from Longlands Fell

A computed 360° skyline — every visible named top labelled by distance and bearing, from the terrain model in perfect clarity, not photographed. Drag to pan; reveal the far four-nations horizon.

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What you can see from Longlands Fell, by direction

East: Brae Fell (1 km)
South-east: Little Sca Fell (2 km), Great Sca Fell (2 km), Frozen Fell (2 km)
South: Burn Tod (3 km), Great Calva (4 km), Bakestall (5 km), Broad End (6 km), Skiddaw North Top (6 km), Skiddaw (6 km), Skiddaw Middle Top (7 km), Sale How (7 km), Skiddaw South Top (7 km), Long Side (8 km), Skiddaw Little Man (8 km), Skiddaw Lesser Man (8 km), Jenkin Hill (8 km)
South-west: Ullock Pike (7 km), Broom Fell (12 km), Graystones (13 km), Graystones (13 km), Grisedale Pike (15 km), Swinside (15 km), Ladyside Pike (16 km), Hopegill Head (16 km), Sand Hill (16 km), Gasgale Crags (16 km), Whiteside East Top (17 km), Eel Crag (17 km), Sail (17 km), Whiteside (17 km), Crag Hill (17 km), Grasmoor (18 km), Loweswater End (21 km), Carling Knott (22 km), Burnbank Fell (22 km), Blake Fell (23 km), Sharp Knott (23 km), Gavel Fell (23 km)
North-west: Criffel (41 km)

On the clearest days the far horizon adds: Slieve Donard (191 km, Ireland), Merrick (98 km, Scotland), Snaefell (100 km, Isle of Man), Cairnsmore of Carsphairn (92 km, Scotland), The Cheviot (106 km, England), Cairnsmore of Fleet (84 km, Scotland), Corserine (93 km, Scotland), Lamachan Hill (94 km, Scotland).

Computed from terrain in perfect clarity, not photographed · distances are straight-line.

Computed from Copernicus GLO-30 terrain; distant tops from the Database of British and Irish Hills (opens in new tab) (CC BY 4.0). See how we compute the view · and the summit intervisibility report below.

Sunrise and sunset on Longlands Fell

Longlands Fell waits for the sun. Its longest wait of the modelled year falls at midwinter, when the sun is up for 46 minutes before it clears this skyline — first light 09:20 against an almanac sunrise of 08:34. You are standing in shadow while the valley below is already lit. The sun comes up to the south-east from here (141.5°), and the skyline on that bearing stands at 4.18°.

Midsummer. The filled shape is the skyline as seen from the summit; the line is the sun’s path. Where they meet is first light — everything left of that point is the wait.

Times for 2026, in Lakeland clock time (GMT in winter, BST in summer) — and model outputs rather than observations.
	First light	Almanac sunrise	Difference
Midsummer	04:31 BST ±5.0 min	04:36	-5 min
Equinox	06:43 GMT ±5.0 min	06:16	+27 min
Midwinter	09:20 GMT ±5.0 min	08:34	+46 min

A low, open northern horizon — the ground falls away northwards (mean -0.26°).

Last light — when the sun leaves Longlands Fell

Longlands Fell holds the light. On not one of the sixteen dates modelled does the sun leave this summit before almanac sunset — the ground falls away westward rather than standing over you, and at midsummer it is still in the sun 3 minutes after the valley has lost it.

The evening of the same three days. A negative difference means a ridge takes the sun before the valley loses it.
	Last light	Almanac sunset	Difference
Midsummer	21:57 BST ±5.0 min	21:54	+3 min
Equinox	18:30 GMT ±5.0 min	18:26	+4 min
Midwinter	15:50 GMT ±5.0 min	15:48	+2 min

Computed, not photographed. First light is the first minute the sun’s upper limb clears this summit’s own skyline and last light the last minute it is still clear of it, both solved against the 360° horizon profile behind The View from Longlands Fell. Almanac sunrise and sunset are the flat-horizon convention. Every time carries a ± band from the 30 m elevation model — it smooths arêtes and cornices, so nothing here claims better than five minutes. These are daylight figures, not a descent plan: the light goes on fading for a good while after the sun leaves, and going down in it is a decision about your own ground and party, not about this table.

What you can see from Longlands Fell

On a clear day — computed sightlines, curvature- and refraction-corrected.

26Wainwrights in view+2 marginal

100 kmFurthest sightlineSnaefell

2Sea in viewIrish Sea, Solway Firth

On the clearest days the view reaches across to Scotland and the Isle of Man.

Far horizons

Snaefell Isle of ManWSW · 100 km clear
Merrick ScotlandWNW · 99 km clear
Criffel ScotlandNW · 42 km clear
Irish Sea open waterWSW · 36 km in view
Solway Firth bay/estuaryNW · 30 km in view

All 26 Wainwrights in clear view (nearest first)

Brae Fell, Meal Fell, Great Cockup, Great Sca Fell, Great Calva, Bakestall, Binsey, Skiddaw, Ullock Pike, Long Side, Skiddaw Little Man, Sale Fell, Barf, Lord's Seat, Broom Fell, Ling Fell, Graystones (Graystones North Top), Grisedale Pike, Hopegill Head, Whiteside (Whiteside West Top), Crag Hill (Eel Crag), Grasmoor, Fellbarrow - Mosser Fell, Burnbank Fell, Blake Fell, Gavel Fell

How Longlands Fell’s view compares with all 214 — the View Report: every Wainwright ranked by what you can see from the top.

Sightlines from a bare-earth terrain model (forests and buildings not included), corrected for the Earth’s curvature and average atmospheric refraction. “Distant” sightlines and any over 100 km depend on exceptionally clear air. Modelled from Copernicus GLO-30 open elevation data — a guide to the view, not a guarantee of any single one.

Places to stay near this fell

Woodlands Country House & Cottage (opens in new tab) guest house

about 4.3 km from the start, in a straight line

Ranked first on usefulness rather than distance. It is the only property in the whole 3-mile radius that serves both a cooked breakfast and an evening meal on site - everything else here is self-catering, a closing hotel, or a group centre. For a party where one person walks the Uldale fells and the rest do not, that combination plus a dedicated Family Friendly page and a dog-welcoming cottage answers more questions than any nearer option. Its own outlook quote names Binsey and Caldbeck, i.e. it faces this walk.

A former Victorian rectory in Ireby, now a licensed B&B with its own restaurant, looking out over Skiddaw, Binsey and the Caldbeck pastures - the same block of fells this route crosses.

Family rooms “Woodlands Cottage sleeps 3 in a double and single”
Evening meal “Our restaurant, lounge, bar and gardens are open to non-residents too; please see our Dine page for more details.”
Children “The House The Cottage Dine Family Friendly Greener Tourism Celebrations”

Bassenfell Manor Christian Centre (opens in new tab) hostel

about 4.6 km from the start, in a straight line

The only property in the entire radius with a drying room, and it says exactly what it is for: space to dry wet coats and shoes. It is also the only one publishing a hard parking number (21 cars), the only one with a stated accessible ground-floor en-suite bedroom, and the only one that organises fell walking itself. For a soaked party coming off Longlands and Lowthwaite in November this is the practical answer, and a family of five can have one room.

They run their own guided walking weeks from the house - a Bassenfell Walking Week runs 14-19 September 2026, and the site keeps a Past Walking Routes page. The dining room seats 75 looking straight out over Bassenthwaite Lake.

Drying room “Drying Room and Laundry Space to dry wet coats and shoes.”
Family rooms “68 Bed spaces in 19 Bedrooms on 3 floors. Rooms range from twin/double up to 6 people each with en-suite or a private bathroom.”
Evening meal “Kitchen Fully equipped to cater for 75”
Parking “Parking Car park space for up to 21 cars.”
Children “A wonderful venue for residential groups whether adults, children, youth or mixed ages.”

Puddle Duck Cottages (opens in new tab) guest house

about 4.0 km from the start, in a straight line

The strongest evidenced option in this radius for a family with small children: free cots and high chairs, a stream and swings and a village green named as the things children actually do here, and the only property that tells you to pack wellingtons. Tumble dryers on site matter after a wet day on Longlands. Ranked below Bassenfell only because the laundry is not a drying room and there is no evening meal on site.

The cottages were formerly called Loft Holiday Cottages, and guests are invited to let the resident puddle ducks out of their shed each morning and collect the eggs.

Dogs “One dog is allowed provided all doggy rules are followed.”
Family rooms “Cots and high chairs are available free of charge but must be requested in advance of arrival.”
Children “Children often enjoy playing in the stream, the small open wood or on the swings by the cottages and on the village green”

What each place says about itself, quoted from their own site. We have not stayed at any of them, and there are no prices, no booking and no affiliate links. Distances are straight lines from each route start, never walking times. Properties found via OpenStreetMap (opens in new tab).

Frequently asked questions about Longlands Fell

Is Longlands Fell an easy walk?

It is one of the gentlest Wainwrights there is — a low grassy swell at the northern edge of the Skiddaw group, reached by a clear path with a modest climb and no rough ground at all. If you are looking for a first fell for someone unsure of themselves, this is a very good answer.

Our quiet Birkett round takes it in over 13.0 km with 587 m of ascent; the north of Skiddaw round is 13.2 km and 707 m with navigation graded easy. On its own from Longlands it is well under an hour of climbing.

Questions drawn from real Google “People also ask” searches; answers written and fact-checked by us. · Reviewed 2026-08-30 · Suggest a question or correction (opens in new tab)

Longlands Fell

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

Longlands Fell at a glance

Longlands Fell

Routes up Longlands Fell

Classifications & hill data

The short answers

Is Longlands Fell a Wainwright?

Where do you park for Longlands Fell?

How hard is Longlands Fell?

My hikes over Longlands Fell (Strava)

Parking & buses for Longlands Fell

Best parking to hike Longlands Fell

Getting to Longlands Fell by bus

Hazards on Longlands Fell

Navigating Longlands Fell in cloud

Map & nearby Birketts

Birketts near Longlands Fell (within 3 km)

Routes over Longlands Fell

The view from Longlands Fell

The 360° skyline from Longlands Fell

Sunrise and sunset on Longlands Fell

Last light — when the sun leaves Longlands Fell

What you can see from Longlands Fell

Places to stay near this fell

Woodlands Country House & Cottage (opens in new tab) guest house

Bassenfell Manor Christian Centre (opens in new tab) hostel

Puddle Duck Cottages (opens in new tab) guest house

Frequently asked questions about Longlands Fell

Other fells near Longlands Fell