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.
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 (Fri 11 Sep): 14° to 10°C, gusts to 23 mph, 2.1 mm of rain forecast.
Forecast snapshot from 11 Sep 2026, 08:30 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.
Naddle Farm Top (Naddle Horseshoe - 3) at a glance
Getting there
Classifications & hill data
The short answers
Is Naddle Farm Top (Naddle Horseshoe - 3) a Wainwright?
Naddle Farm Top (Naddle Horseshoe - 3) is one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells, not one of the 214 in the Pictorial Guides. It is also on the Synge list.
Where do you park for Naddle Farm Top (Naddle Horseshoe - 3)?
The nearest car park we hold is Hugh's Laithes Pike (verge), about 0.4 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is Naddle Farm Top car park, 0.9 km out. We only look within 2.5 km, measured straight-line: over longer distances a road may cross a pass and the drive bears no relation to the line.
Routes up Naddle Farm Top (Naddle Horseshoe - 3)
No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest routes we publish start close by:
- Pinnacle Howe and Four Stones Hill — starts 0.4 km away
- Birketts South of Burnbanks — starts 0.4 km away
- Bampton Fell — starts 0.4 km away
Parking & buses for Naddle Farm Top (Naddle Horseshoe - 3)
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).
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.
Vehicles are left entirely at their owner’s risk. We list places people park; we cannot vouch for any of them. Judge it on the day: take valuables with you, leave nothing on show, and if a spot feels wrong when you get there, park somewhere else.
Getting to Naddle Farm Top (Naddle Horseshoe - 3) by bus
We don’t know yet. The path network around this start isn’t mapped well enough for us to measure a walk from the nearest stop. That’s a gap in our data, not a sign that no bus comes here.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Hazards on Naddle Farm Top (Naddle Horseshoe - 3)
No hazard card for this fell. The usual open-fell rules apply: check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected.
Map & nearby Birketts
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.
Nearest parking: Hugh's Laithes Pike (verge), about 0.4 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.
On the hill: terrain and water on Naddle Farm Top (Naddle Horseshoe - 3)
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 144 fells.