⛰️ Rowling End

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

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433 mBirkett — North Western (not a Wainwright summit)+5 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Rowling End at 433m (1,421ft) is the rocky spur below Causey Pike above the Newlands valley, its craggy top giving excellent views of Derwent Water and the Skiddaw massif. A Birkett fell on the lower Causey Pike ridge above Stoneycroft. The views of Derwent Water and Bassenthwaite Lake from Rowling End are among the best from any low North Western summit.

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.

1.5 km NWStile End447 m · North Western
1.6 km ESkelgill Bank338 m · Central
2.4 km SSWScope End412 m · Western
2.8 km NNWKinn374 m · North Western
2.9 km SSWRed Knott452 m · Western

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Rowling End (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Little Town, Newlands (paid, small) — 1.0 km from summit (straight line)
Newlands valley — Catbells, Maiden Moor, Hindscarth, Robinson.
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Hawse End / Skelgill Bank, Catbells (roadside, limited) — 2.2 km from summit (straight line)
Very limited roadside parking — better to use the 77 bus or the Keswick launch to Hawse End.
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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 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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