452 mBirkett — Western (not a Wainwright summit)+4 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.
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🦶 My hikes over Red Knott (Strava)
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🅿️ Potential parking
Little Town, Newlands (paid, small) — 2.1 km from summit (straight line)
Newlands valley — Catbells, Maiden Moor, Hindscarth, Robinson.
Directions ↗Gatesgarth Farm, Buttermere (paid) — 3.9 km from summit (straight line)
Farm car park at the foot of Haystacks, Fleetwith Pike and the High Stile ridge.
Directions ↗Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.
🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere
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.
🌦️ 7-day summit forecast
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Other fells in this region
- Base Brown
- Brandreth
- Buckbarrow
- Burnbank Fell
- Caw Fell
- Crag Fell
- Fleetwith Pike
- Great Borne
- Great Gable
- Green Gable
- Grey Knotts
- Grike
- Haycock
- Haystacks (Buttermere)
- Hen Comb
- High Crag (Buttermere)
- High Stile
- Illgill Head
- Kirk Fell
- Lank Rigg
- Mellbreak (Mellbreak South Top)
- Middle Fell
- Pillar
- Red Pike (Buttermere)
- Red Pike (Wasdale)
- Scoat Fell (Little Scoat Fell)
- Seatallan
- Starling Dodd
- Steeple
- Whin Rigg (Wasdale)
- Yewbarrow