⛰️ Middle Crag

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

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484 mBirkett — Central (not a Wainwright summit)+9 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.

0.5 km SSEShivery Knott491 m · Central
0.9 km ENEArmboth Fell (Birkett)479 m · Central
0.9 km SWatendlath Fell (Long Moss)515 m · Central
1.8 km ENEFisher Crag421 m · Central
1.8 km SEBell Crags (Long Moss) (Blea Tarn Fell)559 m · Central
2.1 km SEBrown Rigg462 m · Central
2.5 km SLow Saddle656 m · Central
2.6 km SSEStanding Crag611 m · Central
2.9 km SColdbarrow Fell - High Saddle675 m · Central

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Middle Crag (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Watendlath (NT, paid) — 0.9 km from summit (straight line)
End of the narrow Watendlath road — Grange Fell, Great Crag, Armboth fells.
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Rosthwaite (NT, paid) — 3.1 km from summit (straight line)
Village car park for the central Borrowdale fells and Watendlath ridge.
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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 78 “Borrowdale Rambler”
Keswick – Lodore – Grange – Rosthwaite – Seatoller
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 or X4/X5)
Year-round, frequent in season. Serves all the Borrowdale starts — Glaramara, the Scafells and Great Gable via Seathwaite (alight Seatoller, 20 min walk up the lane).
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.

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