345 mBirkett — Northern (not a Wainwright summit)+2 bonus Birketts within 3 km
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.
⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information
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🦶 My hikes over Lothwaite (Strava)
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🅿️ Potential parking
Dodd Wood (paid) — 3.5 km from summit (straight line)
Forestry car park for Dodd, Carl Side and the Ullock Pike ridge onto Skiddaw.
Directions ↗Whinlatter Visitor Centre (paid) — 5.3 km from summit (straight line)
Forest centre — Lord's Seat, Barf, Whinlatter fells, Grisedale Pike's back route.
Directions ↗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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Other fells in this region
- Bakestall
- Bannerdale Crags
- Binsey
- Blencathra - Hallsfell Top
- Bowscale Fell
- Brae Fell
- Carl Side
- Carrock Fell
- Dodd (Skiddaw)
- Great Calva
- Great Cockup
- Great Sca Fell
- High Pike (Caldbeck)
- Knott
- Latrigg
- Ling Fell
- Long Side
- Longlands Fell
- Lonscale Fell
- Meal Fell
- Mungrisdale Common
- Sale Fell
- Skiddaw
- Skiddaw Little Man
- Souther Fell
- Ullock Pike