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Low White Stones

Short entry: no route or hazard notes for this fell yet.

Nearest route starts ↓
731 mBirkett — Central (not a Wainwright summit)+5 bonus Birketts within 3 km

Low White Stones at 731m (2,398ft) is an intermediate summit on the High Raise plateau between Sergeant Man and Ullscarf, a broad, grassy top with open views across the Central Fells.

Summit conditions on Low White Stones

On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 10° to 5°C, gusts to 62 mph, 15.2 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.

Full 7-day summit forecast ↓

The forecast figures are Open-Meteo’s, worked out for the summit’s height. How we check →

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Parking & buses

New Dungeon Ghyll (LDNPA, paid)
3.9 km from summit (straight line)
Stickle Ghyll (NT, paid)
3.9 km from summit (straight line)
Stagecoach 516 “Langdale Rambler”

Parking & buses ↓

Routes near Low White Stones

No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest route starts we publish, in a straight line from the summit:

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Modelled for the 731 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

Full 7-day forecast
Tue 27 Oct
10° / 5°
62 mph
15.2 mm (100%)
Wed 28 Oct
8° / 5°
44 mph
20.9 mm (100%)
Thu 29 Oct
8° / 6°
27 mph
2.0 mm (75%)
Fri 30 Oct
7° / 5°
25 mph
0.0 mm (8%)
Sat 31 Oct
6° / 3°
6 mph
0.0 mm (6%)
Sun 1 Nov
7° / 2°
14 mph
0.6 mm (2%)
Mon 2 Nov
5° / -1°
9 mph
0.0 mm (0%)

Taken 27 October 2026, 20:59 UTC; the live forecast replaces it when it loads. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Parking & buses for Low White Stones

Parking

New Dungeon Ghyll (LDNPA, paid) — 3.9 km from summit (straight line)
Walking base for Sergeant Man, High Raise (High White Stones), Thunacar Knott and Pavey Ark — the 'Langdale Pikes Round' route starts 127 m away. Also serves 'Langdale Horseshoe'. Fees: pay and display at the machine; whether it takes cards is not published (the Authority's machine records, FOI/2026.500).
Directions (opens in new tab)When people arrive, and what it costs →Something changed here?
Public toilets (opens in new tab) (~133 m straight line) — Free
Stickle Ghyll (NT, paid) — 3.9 km from summit (straight line)
Walking base for Pavey Ark, Harrison Stickle, Thorn Crag and Loft Crag — the 'Langdale Horseshoe' route starts 67 m away. Also serves 'Langdale Pikes Round'. Paid National Trust car park - the prices we used to show here came from an aggregator rather than the Trust, so we no longer publish a figure; check the machine on arrival, and members should bring their card (National Trust car-park list, checked August 2026). Unpaved surface (OSM-tagged). Height barrier (community-reported). Direct start up Stickle Ghyll for the Langdale Pikes.
Typically full before 10:00 on fine weekends, Apr-Oct — Lee McCoy, local observation, 9 August 2026.
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If it is full: Old Dungeon Ghyll (NT, paid) (1.0 km); Blea Tarn (NT, paid) (3.2 km, 93 m up)
Public toilets (opens in new tab) (~147 m straight line) — Free
Old Dungeon Ghyll (NT, paid) — 4.0 km from summit (straight line)
Head of Great Langdale — Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco, the Langdale Pikes. Free for NT members (checked August 2026).
Typically full before 10:00 on fine weekends, Apr-Oct — Lee McCoy, local observation, 9 August 2026.
Directions (opens in new tab)Something changed here?
If it is full: Stickle Ghyll (NT, paid) (1.0 km, 24 m up); Great Langdale, valley road verge (free) (0.8 km) a few spaces only; Side Pike (verge) (0.8 km) a few spaces only

Positions are approximate.

Of the pay-and-display machine tickets sold at New Dungeon Ghyll from 17 August 2024 to 31 March 2026, 33% were bought before 10am (our count of FOI/2026.500 ticket data). Contains public sector information provided by the Lake District National Park Authority and licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Vehicles are left at their owner’s risk: we list places people park and cannot vouch for any of them. Take valuables with you and leave nothing on show.

Buses

The 516 stops at New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel (opposite), a 100 m walk from the nearest parking for this fell. We haven’t mapped a route up it, so we can’t tell you the walk from there to the start. Return buses leave from New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, across the road. As timetabled from 27 October to 1 November. Towards Kendal (516): Tuesday to Thursday, Sunday 20:13; Friday and Saturday 22:33. Checked against the operator’s timetable, 23 September 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.

Stagecoach 516 “Langdale Rambler”
Ambleside – Skelwith Bridge – Elterwater – New Dungeon Ghyll – Old Dungeon Ghyll
Catch it from: Ambleside · Windermere (change at Ambleside)
The Langdale bus — Pikes, Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco all walkable from the Dungeon Ghyll stops. Seasonal frequency varies; check before relying on the last bus back.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

Getting there across the Lake District: Buses · Parking map · By train · By boat

Hazards on Low White Stones

We have not written a hazard card for this fell yet, and that is not a sign that it is low-hazard. Check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected. The National Park Authority’s What to pack page, AdventureSmart’s hill walking kit list and Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s safety page are linked from our what to carry guide.

If you need Mountain Rescue

Dial 999 or 112 and ask for the Police, then Mountain Rescue.

Before you call, have ready: where you are (a grid reference if you can – the OS Locate app shows yours on your phone), what has happened, how many of you there are, and your mobile number.

Then stay where you are until the rescue team contacts you.

If you cannot make a voice call because of a hearing or speech impairment, emergency SMS works only if you have registered first: text “register” to 999.

From Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s guidance on calling them out (opens in new tab) (read 26 October 2026).

Map & nearby Birketts

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap, with SRTM elevation data (switch layers top-right).

Parking, toilets and buses: Parking & buses ↑.

Birketts within 3 km of Low White Stones

These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits. Distances are straight lines: check the ground and access on a map before adding one.

1.2 km SECodale Head732 m · Central
1.2 km NLining Crag542 m · Central
2.9 km SThorn Crag644 m · Central
3.0 km NNEColdbarrow Fell - High Saddle675 m · Central

About Low White Stones

Wainwright noted it as a distinct point on the plateau, its white quartzite stones visible from a distance. Most naturally part of the full Central Fells circuit from Langdale or Borrowdale via High Raise. Unhurried walking on open moorland.

Classifications & hill data

Is Low White Stones a Wainwright?

Low White Stones is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett list.

Selected lists

731 m
Height
2,398 ft
In feet
NY 2820 1003
Grid ref

This is the summit’s grid reference. If you call from anywhere else, give your own position, not this one.

Lists, height and summit position from the Database of British and Irish Hills; the feet are converted from its metres and the grid reference from that position. How we check →

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