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Outlying Fell — West CumbriaAlso a Birkett

Rough Crag (Birker Moor)

Rough Crag (319 m / 1,047 ft) is a low, rocky knoll on Birker Moor, taken in on Wainwright's Devoke Water round close to its neighbour Seat How.

319 m
Height
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Bonus Birkett
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319 mOutlying Fell — West Cumbria✓ summit is also a Birkett+1 bonus Birkett within 3 km

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

Modelled guidance for the 319 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 17° to 16°C, gusts to 25 mph, 0.7 mm of rain forecast.

Tue 28 Jul
🌦️
17° / 16°
💨 25 mph
🌧 0.7 mm (90%)
Wed 29 Jul
🌧️
17° / 13°
💨 21 mph
🌧 3.7 mm (98%)
Thu 30 Jul
🌦️
14° / 8°
💨 29 mph
🌧 2.8 mm (70%)
Fri 31 Jul
🌤️
16° / 5°
💨 23 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (73%)
Sat 1 Aug
🌦️
16° / 7°
💨 15 mph
🌧 3.3 mm (47%)
Sun 2 Aug
☁️
18° / 10°
💨 20 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (24%)
Mon 3 Aug
🌦️
17° / 9°
💨 19 mph
🌧 0.4 mm (17%)

Forecast snapshot from 28 Jul 2026, 04:58 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 319 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.

Pro mountain forecasts: MWIS · Met Office mountain forecast

About the walk

Key information

Rough Crag (Birker Moor)

Rough Crag (319 m / 1,047 ft) is a low, rocky knoll on Birker Moor, taken in on Wainwright's Devoke Water round close to its neighbour Seat How. This is open, tussocky moorland above Eskdale, scattered with outcrops and small tarns, and Devoke Water — the Lake District's largest tarn — lies just to the south. The name is from crag (Brittonic carreg, a rock). A Wainwright Outlying Fell and a Birkett, it gives a fine low-level view to the Scafell range without any of the crowds those higher fells attract.

Classifications & hill data
Outlying Fell
West Cumbria
Birkett
Synge
319 m
Height
1,047 ft
In feet
SD 1610 9776
Grid ref

Map & nearby Birketts

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

Nearest parking: Devoke Water turning, Birker Fell road (verge), about 1.0 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Rough Crag (Birker Moor) (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.

2.5 km EBirker Fell - Great Crag333 m · Southern

Terrain & access

A 319 m top with a mapped path to within about 11 m of the summit. There is steep ground (over 30°) on the direct line — pick your line with care. 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 Rough Crag (Birker Moor)

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

Devoke Water turning, Birker Fell road (verge) — 1.0 km from summit (straight line)
Rough free parking by the bridleway to Devoke Water for the Birker Fell group.
Directions
Dalegarth Station, Eskdale (paid) — 3.1 km from summit (straight line)
Pay & display at the La'al Ratty terminus — Eskdale fells, Harter Fell, Green Crag.
Directions
🚺 Dalegarth Station (263m) — Accessible☕ Fellbites Cafe

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 Rough Crag (Birker Moor) from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway (“La'al Ratty”)
Ravenglass (Cumbrian Coast main line) – Eskdale Green – Dalegarth for Boot
Catch it from: Connects from the Cumbrian Coast line (not from Penrith/Ambleside/Windermere directly)
Not a bus, but the only public transport into Eskdale. Wasdale has no public transport at all — car (or a long walk in) is the realistic option for the Wasdale fells.

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

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Maps & guidebooks for Rough Crag (Birker Moor)

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