⛰️ Mellbreak (Mellbreak South Top)

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

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511 mWainwright — Western Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+7 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Mellbreak at 512m (1,680ft) is a distinctive double-summited ridge above the western shore of Crummock Water, its steep flanks rising directly from the lake edge. Wainwright described the views from both summits as outstanding — Crummock Water, Loweswater and the Grasmoor massif all visible from the ridge. The ascent from Lanthwaite Green is steep and direct, rewarded immediately with excellent lake views. The descent via Scale Beck to Crummock Water gives a fine circular walk.

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.

0.8 km SScale Knott338 m · Western
1.0 km NNWMellbreak North Top509 m · North Western
1.8 km WNWLittle Dodd (Loweswater)362 m · North Western
2.4 km ENELad Hows426 m · North Western
2.7 km SSWGale Fell518 m · Western
2.8 km WGavel Fell - High Nook (Gavel Fell North Top)488 m · North Western
2.9 km WSWFloutern Cop451 m · Western

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Mellbreak (Mellbreak South Top) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Lanthwaite Green (NT) — 2.1 km from summit (straight line)
At the foot of Grasmoor and Whiteside, Crummock Water.
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Buttermere village (NT, paid) — 3.1 km from summit (straight line)
For Red Pike, High Stile, Robinson, Rannerdale Knotts.
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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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