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Outlying Fell — Around Penrith

Naddle Farm Top (Naddle Horseshoe - 3)

Naddle Farm Top at 395m (1,296ft) is an Outlying Fell forming part of the Naddle Horseshoe above the Naddle valley near Shap, giving views across the limestone country and towards the Haweswater fells.

395 m
Height
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395 mOutlying Fell — Around Penrithsummit is not a Birkett top+5 bonus Birketts within 3 km

Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast

Modelled guidance for the 395 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 17° to 15°C, gusts to 33 mph, 4.6 mm of rain forecast.

Tue 28 Jul
🌦️
17° / 15°
💨 33 mph
🌧 4.6 mm (98%)
Wed 29 Jul
🌦️
18° / 14°
💨 30 mph
🌧 1.1 mm (98%)
Thu 30 Jul
☁️
16° / 8°
💨 28 mph
🌧 0.1 mm (63%)
Fri 31 Jul
☁️
17° / 4°
💨 25 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (82%)
Sat 1 Aug
🌦️
16° / 4°
💨 11 mph
🌧 6.3 mm (31%)
Sun 2 Aug
🌤️
18° / 4°
💨 18 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (25%)
Mon 3 Aug
🌦️
18° / 8°
💨 12 mph
🌧 0.2 mm (24%)

Forecast snapshot from 28 Jul 2026, 04:58 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 395 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.

About the walk

Key information

Naddle Farm Top (Naddle Horseshoe - 3)

Naddle Farm Top at 395m (1,296ft) is an Outlying Fell forming part of the Naddle Horseshoe above the Naddle valley near Shap, giving views across the limestone country and towards the Haweswater fells. Wainwright included the Naddle Horseshoe in his Outlying Fells guide as part of the Around Penrith group. A quiet, pastoral fell walk.

Classifications & hill data
Outlying Fell
Around Penrith
Synge
395 m
Height
1,296 ft
In feet

Map & nearby Birketts

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.

Nearest parking: Wet Sleddale dam (free), about 5.2 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Naddle Farm Top (Naddle Horseshoe - 3) (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.

0.4 km SWNaddle Low Forest426 m · Far Eastern
1.7 km NNWPinnacle Howe383 m · Far Eastern
1.7 km NWFour Stones Hill415 m · Far Eastern
1.7 km SPowleys Hill465 m · Far Eastern
2.2 km NWBampton Fell (Bampton Common)489 m · Far Eastern

Terrain & access

A near-path top (about 395 m): a mapped path comes within about 72 m of the summit, with a last stretch of open ground (about 6 m of ascent, up to ~9°). The summit is on CRoW open access land.

Computed from open data, not walked — pathless ground needs confident navigation, and mapped paths, barriers and access boundaries can be incomplete. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (via Overpass); Natural England CRoW Access Land; DoBIH; Copernicus GLO-30. See the terrain & access report for how this is worked out across all 145 fells.

Best parking to hike Naddle Farm Top (Naddle Horseshoe - 3)

Where we have the data, each parking spot also shows the nearest public toilets and facilities (cafés, pubs, shops).

Wet Sleddale dam (free) — 5.2 km from summit (straight line)
For the quiet Shap-side fells: Seat Robert, Sleddale fells.
Directions (opens in new tab)
Shap village (free) — 5.7 km from summit (straight line)
For the Shap fells and Crosby Ravensworth commons.
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Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

Tip: pan and zoom the interactive map at the top of this page to spot other potential parking near your route.

Buses to Naddle Farm Top (Naddle Horseshoe - 3) from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Route 106
Penrith – Eamont Bridge – Askham – Shap – Kendal
Catch it from: Penrith
Monday–Saturday, infrequent — plan carefully. Useful for the Shap and Crosby Ravensworth outlying fells.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

Maps & guidebooks for Naddle Farm Top (Naddle Horseshoe - 3)

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