⛰️ Mellbreak North Top

509 m · Birkett — North Western (not a Wainwright summit) · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

509 mBirkett — North Western (not a Wainwright summit)+8 bonus Birketts within 3 km

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.

1.1 km WSWLittle Dodd (Loweswater)362 m · North Western
1.8 km SSEScale Knott338 m · Western
2.3 km WSWGavel Fell - High Nook (Gavel Fell North Top)488 m · North Western
2.5 km WNWLoweswater End - Carling Knott519 m · Western
2.7 km WNWCarling Knott544 m · North Western
2.9 km NNWLoweswater Fell (Low Fell South Top)417 m · Western
2.9 km ELad Hows426 m · North Western
2.9 km SWFloutern Cop451 m · Western

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Mellbreak North Top (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Lanthwaite Green (NT) — 1.4 km from summit (straight line)
At the foot of Grasmoor and Whiteside, Crummock Water.
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Maggie's Bridge, Loweswater (NT, free) — 2.5 km from summit (straight line)
Small free car park for Mellbreak, Hen Comb and the Loweswater fells.
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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

No regular bus serves the start points for this fell — this is one for the car (or a long approach from the nearest served valley). The nearest hubs are Penrith (X4/X5 & 508), Ambleside and Windermere (555, 505, 516).

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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