666 mBirkett — Northern (not a Wainwright summit)+8 bonus Birketts within 3 km
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🎯 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.
⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information
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🦶 My hikes over Sale How (Strava)
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🅿️ Potential parking
Gale Road / Latrigg top (free) — 3.4 km from summit (straight line)
Free car park at the road end behind Latrigg — shortest way up Skiddaw via Jenkin Hill.
Directions ↗Peter House Farm, Bassenthwaite (roadside) — 4.0 km from summit (straight line)
Dash Falls track — Bakestall, Great Calva, Skiddaw the quiet way.
Directions ↗Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.
🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere
No regular bus serves the start points for this fell — this is one for the car (or a long approach from the nearest served valley). The nearest hubs are Penrith (X4/X5 & 508), Ambleside and Windermere (555, 505, 516).
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
- Bakestall
- Bannerdale Crags
- Binsey
- Blencathra - Hallsfell Top
- Bowscale Fell
- Brae Fell
- Carl Side
- Carrock Fell
- Dodd (Skiddaw)
- Great Calva
- Great Cockup
- Great Sca Fell
- High Pike (Caldbeck)
- Knott
- Latrigg
- Ling Fell
- Long Side
- Longlands Fell
- Lonscale Fell
- Meal Fell
- Mungrisdale Common
- Sale Fell
- Skiddaw
- Skiddaw Little Man
- Souther Fell
- Ullock Pike