Low Birk Fell Hiking Guide & Routes

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373 mBirkett — Far Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)+7 bonus Birketts within 3 km

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🎯 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.

0.9 km SSEHigh Dodd501 m · Far Eastern

1.1 km SWBirk Fell (Bleaberry Knott - Birk Fell)512 m · Far Eastern

1.2 km ESleet Fell378 m · Far Eastern

1.5 km SSWThe Knight552 m · Eastern

1.9 km NGreen Hill - Gowbarrow Park439 m · Eastern

2.6 km NWRound How387 m · Eastern

2.7 km NWBracken How373 m · Eastern

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🦶 My hikes over Low Birk Fell (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Aira Force (NT, paid) — 1.5 km from summit (straight line)

For Gowbarrow Fell and the path toward Great Dodd via Dockray.

Directions ↗

Glenridding (paid) — 3.1 km from summit (straight line)

Main Helvellyn-from-the-east base: Striding Edge, Catstye Cam, Birkhouse Moor; also Sheffield Pike, Glenridding Dodd.

Directions ↗

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

🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Stagecoach 508 “Ullswater Bus”

Penrith – Pooley Bridge – Aira Force – Glenridding – Patterdale (summer services continue over Kirkstone Pass to Troutbeck and Windermere)

Catch it from: Penrith · Windermere (summer only)

The key route from Penrith for the Eastern and Far Eastern fells: Helvellyn from Glenridding, Place Fell, the Hartsop fells. The summer Kirkstone extension drops you at the pass for Red Screes and Caudale Moor.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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