⛰️ Lord's Seat

552 m · Wainwright — North Western Fells · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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552 mWainwright — North Western Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+7 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Lord's Seat at 552m (1,811ft) is the highest point of the Whinlatter Forest fells, a broad, grassy summit giving outstanding views of Bassenthwaite Lake and the Skiddaw massif. Wainwright noted the excellent lake views from this unfrequented corner of the North Western Fells. The ascent from Thornthwaite or Whinlatter Forest is pleasant and the summit offers a genuine sense of seclusion. Combined naturally with Broom Fell and Whinlatter for a circuit of the Whinlatter Forest fells.

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.

0.7 km SEUllister Hill525 m · North Western
1.2 km STarbarrel Moss493 m · North Western
1.3 km SESeat How (Thornthwaite)495 m · North Western
1.8 km SSWWhinlatter Top525 m · North Western
2.4 km NWBurthwaite Heights318 m · North Western
2.6 km WGraystones455 m · North Western
3.0 km NNWRivings335 m · Northern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Lord's Seat (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Whinlatter Visitor Centre (paid) — 2.2 km from summit (straight line)
Forest centre — Lord's Seat, Barf, Whinlatter fells, Grisedale Pike's back route.
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Dodd Wood (paid) — 3.4 km from summit (straight line)
Forestry car park for Dodd, Carl Side and the Ullock Pike ridge onto Skiddaw.
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Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Stagecoach 77 / 77A “Honister Rambler”
Keswick – Portinscale – Hawse End (Catbells) – Grange – Seatoller – Honister Pass – Buttermere – Lorton – Whinlatter – Keswick (circular)
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 from Windermere/Ambleside or X4/X5 from Penrith)
Seasonal (roughly Easter–October). Brilliant for the North Western fells: Catbells, Dale Head from Honister, the Buttermere fells and Whinlatter.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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