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Outlying Fell — South Lakeland

Low Light Haw

Low Light Haw (250 m / 820 ft) is the lower of the two Light Haw knolls, a quiet rise of heather and scattered birch in the soft country south of Tarn Hows and west of Hawkshead.

250 m
Height
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Bonus Birketts
See routes & download GPX → Parking & buses →
250 mOutlying Fell — South Lakelandsummit is not a Birkett top+2 bonus Birketts within 3 km

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

Modelled guidance for the 250 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Fri 11 Sep): 15° to 10°C, gusts to 21 mph, 0.4 mm of rain forecast.

Fri 11 Sep
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15° / 10°
💨 21 mph
🌧 0.4 mm (94%)
Sat 12 Sep
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17° / 10°
💨 35 mph
🌧 29.0 mm (100%)
Sun 13 Sep
☁️
16° / 10°
💨 13 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (33%)
Mon 14 Sep
🌧️
16° / 9°
💨 28 mph
🌧 14.5 mm (89%)
Tue 15 Sep
🌦️
15° / 10°
💨 33 mph
🌧 3.8 mm (78%)
Wed 16 Sep
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13° / 11°
💨 26 mph
🌧 1.6 mm (57%)
Thu 17 Sep
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14° / 11°
💨 34 mph
🌧 4.2 mm (79%)

Forecast snapshot from 11 Sep 2026, 08:30 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 250 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.

Low Light Haw at a glance

Low Light Haw

Low Light Haw (250 m / 820 ft) is the lower of the two Light Haw knolls, a quiet rise of heather and scattered birch in the soft country south of Tarn Hows and west of Hawkshead. Barely 0.4 km from High Light Haw, it is invariably climbed with its twin on a short, gentle round from Tarn Hows or Arnsbarrow. The name combines light (an open clearing) and haw (Old Norse haugr, a mound). A Wainwright Outlying Fell — one of the least-demanding tops in the whole list, and a good introduction to Outlying-Fell bagging.

Routes up Low Light Haw

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

Classifications & hill data

Outlying Fell
South Lakeland
250 m
Height
820 ft
In feet

The short answers

Is Low Light Haw a Wainwright?

Low Light Haw is one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells, not one of the 214 in the Pictorial Guides.

Where do you park for Low Light Haw?

The nearest car park we hold is Crab Haws car park, Bethecar Moor (free), about 1.0 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is Beacon Fell, south-east (layby), 1.4 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 Low Light Haw?

The shortest way up we hold is Low Light Haw — 5.6 km, 247 m of ascent, about 1.5 hours. On our scale its hardest axis is steepness — Hard.

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

Parking & buses for Low Light Haw

Best parking to hike Low Light Haw

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

Crab Haws car park, Bethecar Moor (free) — 1.0 km from summit (straight line)
Small, free car park about 0.8 miles N of High Nibthwaite (OS SD 296 909; what3words ///fault.swordfish.insect). The hidden entrance is immediately after a field on the right. The natural start for the quiet Bethecar Moor / Blawith Birketts (Low & High Light Haw, Arnsbarrow Hill), with a path up through the woods. High Nibthwaite's own roadside laybys are very limited, so use Crab Haws to avoid blocking farm access.
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Beacon Fell, south-east (layby) — 1.4 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Unnamed top (Top o' Selside) (1.1 km), Beacon Fell (1.1 km), Low Light Haw (1.4 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Unpaved surface (OSM-tagged).
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Low Light Haw, south-west (layby) — 1.4 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Unnamed top (Top o' Selside) (1.0 km), Low Light Haw (1.4 km), Beacon Fell (1.5 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Ground surface (OSM-tagged).
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Brown Howe (SLDC, paid) — 1.5 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Beacon Fell (1.3 km), High Light Haw (1.4 km), Unnamed top (Top o' Selside) (1.5 km). Fees: pay and display; coins and cards. Toilets on site.
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Beacon Fell, east (layby) — 1.5 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Beacon Fell (0.9 km), Unnamed top (Top o' Selside) (1.3 km), Low Light Haw (1.5 km). Free (OSM-tagged).
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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 Low Light Haw by bus

The nearest bus stop we hold is the 505 at Monk Coniston, at Hall, 8.3 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 Low Light Haw

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.

Map & nearby Birketts

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

Nearest parking: Crab Haws car park, Bethecar Moor (free), about 1.0 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Low Light Haw (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.

1.1 km NEStang Hill (Arnsbarrow Hill South Top)316 m · Southern
1.4 km NEArnsbarrow Hill322 m · Southern

Routes over Low Light Haw

5.63 km · ~247 m ascent · loop · ~1.5–2 h · Easy–Moderate
Summits: Low Light Haw

✎️ Park at the small, free Crab Haws car park (what3words ///fault.swordfish.insect), about 0.8 miles north of High Nibthwaite — the entrance is easy to miss, immediately after a field on the right, and the path climbs straight up through the woods from there. High Nibthwaite's own laybys are very limited, so please use Crab Haws and don't block the farm access.

⬇️ Download GPX

Best season: Good year-round in clear weather. The paths on Bethecar Moor are little-trodden and can be faint, so pick a day with decent 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.

Places to stay near this fell

Low Parkamoor Cottage (opens in new tab) guest house

about 2.0 km from the start, in a straight line

The only property in the radius that is both on the same shore as the start and closest to it - and it is barely a mile and a half up the fellside from the Crab Haws start, in the same hamlet the route note points you to (High Nibthwaite / Nibthwaite Grange Farm). It is also the one place here whose limitations are worth more to a reader than most sites' selling points: off-grid, composting toilet outside, no running water, no lights upstairs, and no vehicle access to the door. A family that reads this and books anyway will have exactly the stay they expected; one that reads it and books elsewhere has been saved a bad evening.

An off-grid Grade II listed farmhouse 200 metres up the fellside above the eastern shore of Coniston Water, lit downstairs by one small solar panel and watered by an indoor hand pump; you either walk in or get a 4x4 lift up from the farm.

  • Dogs “Dogs are allowed by agreement, but owners are asked to keep them under close control.”
  • Family rooms “It sleeps a maximum of 6 people. There are two double room and a twin room.”

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).

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