⛰️ Maiden Moor

575 m · Wainwright — North Western Fells · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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575 mWainwright — North Western Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+6 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Maiden Moor at 576m (1,890ft) is the broad ridge south of Catbells on the Newlands Horseshoe, giving outstanding views of Derwent Water from its open summit plateau. Wainwright described the walk south from Catbells along the Maiden Moor ridge as one of the finest low-level ridge walks above Derwent Water — the lake views are consistently excellent throughout. Most naturally part of the classic Newlands Horseshoe or as an extension of the Catbells ridge walk from Hawes End.

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.

1.3 km WScope End412 m · Western
1.6 km WRed Knott452 m · Western
2.0 km WSWHigh Crags (Newlands)529 m · Western
2.5 km NNESkelgill Bank338 m · Central
2.6 km NNWRowling End433 m · North Western
2.6 km SEKing's How - Grange Fell392 m · Central

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Maiden Moor (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Little Town, Newlands (paid, small) — 1.6 km from summit (straight line)
Newlands valley — Catbells, Maiden Moor, Hindscarth, Robinson.
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Hawse End / Skelgill Bank, Catbells (roadside, limited) — 3.4 km from summit (straight line)
Very limited roadside parking — better to use the 77 bus or the Keswick launch to Hawse End.
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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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