Loweswater Fell (Low Fell South Top)
Loweswater Fell South Top at 417m (1,368ft) is a Birkett top on the Low Fell ridge above Loweswater in the North Western Fells, giving views across the intimate Loweswater lake and the surrounding pastoral valley.
Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast
Modelled guidance for the 417 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
On the summit today (Sat 12 Sep): 16° to 8°C, gusts to 42 mph, 20.5 mm of rain forecast.
Forecast snapshot from 12 Sep 2026, 18:50 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 417 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.
Loweswater Fell (Low Fell South Top) at a glance
Getting there
Classifications & hill data
The short answers
Is Loweswater Fell (Low Fell South Top) a Wainwright?
Loweswater Fell (Low Fell South Top) is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett list and the Synge list.
Where do you park for Loweswater Fell (Low Fell South Top)?
The nearest car park we hold is Darling Fell, south-west (layby), about 1.0 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is Maggie's Bridge, Loweswater (NT, paid), 1.2 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.
Routes up Loweswater Fell (Low Fell South Top)
No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest routes we publish start close by:
- Blake Fell, Gavel Fell, Hen Comb — starts 1.2 km away
- Loweswater circuit — starts 1.2 km away
- Around Loweswater to Fellbarrow and Low Fell — starts 1.2 km away
Parking & buses for Loweswater Fell (Low Fell South Top)
Best parking to hike Loweswater Fell (Low Fell South Top)
Where we have the data, each parking spot also shows the nearest public toilets and facilities (cafés, pubs, shops).
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 Loweswater Fell (Low Fell South Top) by bus
The 77 stops at Lanthwaite Green Farm (opp), 4.2 km 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. Seasonal: the 77 does not run all year. 1 November 2026 is its last day, and it is not daily before then — a bus on 31 of the 56 days from 7 September. We don’t know when it returns. Confirmed with the operator, 29 August 2026. The last bus is 18:03 towards Keswick (77), every day. Checked against the operator’s timetable, 12 September 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Hazards on Loweswater Fell (Low Fell South Top)
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
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.
Nearest parking: Darling Fell, south-west (layby), about 1.0 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.
Birketts near Loweswater Fell (Low Fell South Top) (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.
Other fells near Loweswater Fell (Low Fell South Top)
- Base Brown
- Blake Fell
- Brandreth
- Buckbarrow
- Burnbank Fell
- Caw Fell
- Crag Fell
- Fellbarrow - Mosser Fell
- Fleetwith Pike
- Gavel Fell
- Great Borne
- Great Gable
- Green Gable
- Grey Knotts
- Grike
- Haycock
- Haystacks (Buttermere)
- Hen Comb
- High Crag (Buttermere)
- High Stile
- Kirk Fell
- Lank Rigg
- Low Fell
- Mellbreak (Mellbreak South Top)
- Middle Fell
- Pillar
- Red Pike (Buttermere)
- Red Pike (Wasdale)
- Scoat Fell (Little Scoat Fell)
- Seatallan
- Starling Dodd
- Steeple
- Yewbarrow