⛰️ Murton Fell (Knock Murton)

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

446 mBirkett — North Western (not a Wainwright summit)+10 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.

0.9 km SKelton Fell311 m · Western
1.0 km ELow Pen435 m · North Western
1.0 km SEGodworth365 m · Western
1.1 km NHigh Hows (Lamplugh)313 m · Western
1.5 km EHigh Pen475 m · North Western
1.6 km NESharp Knott482 m · North Western
2.0 km NNEOwsen Fell409 m · Western
2.5 km ENECarling Knott544 m · North Western
2.5 km EGavel Fell - High Nook (Gavel Fell North Top)488 m · North Western
2.7 km SEBanna Fell455 m · Western

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Murton Fell (Knock Murton) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Maggie's Bridge, Loweswater (NT, free) — 3.8 km from summit (straight line)
Small free car park for Mellbreak, Hen Comb and the Loweswater fells.
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Bowness Knott, Ennerdale (free) — 4.5 km from summit (straight line)
Forestry car park on Ennerdale's north shore — Great Borne, Starling Dodd, and the long walk-ins to Pillar and Steeple.
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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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