⛰️ Rosthwaite Fell (Rosthwaite Cam)

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

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612 mBirkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)+6 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.

0.4 km SSEDovenest Top (Dovenest Crag) (Stonethwaite Fell)633 m · Southern
1.0 km WThornythwaite Fell574 m · Southern
1.1 km SWCombe Head735 m · Southern
1.9 km SSWLooking Steads (Glaramara)774 m · Southern
2.5 km SSWRed Beck Top (Glaramara South Top) (Lincomb Head - Glaramara)720 m · Southern
2.8 km ESELining Crag542 m · Central

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Rosthwaite Fell (Rosthwaite Cam) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale (free verge) — 1.2 km from summit (straight line)
Free verge parking on the Seathwaite lane — the honeypot start for the Scafells, Great Gable and Glaramara. Arrive very early.
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Stonethwaite (roadside, limited) — 2.1 km from summit (straight line)
Small roadside area near the hamlet — Eagle Crag, Sergeant's Crag, Langstrath approaches.
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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).

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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