⛰️ Sand Hill

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

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756 mBirkett — North Western (not a Wainwright summit)+11 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Sand Hill at 756m (2,480ft) is an intermediate summit on the Coledale Horseshoe ridge between Grisedale Pike and Hopegill Head, its grassy top giving fine views of the Coledale valley and the surrounding ridges. Wainwright included it as a separate fell on the horseshoe circuit. Most walkers pass through it without pausing on the circuit between Hopegill Head and Grisedale Pike. The views down Coledale to Braithwaite and Bassenthwaite Lake are pleasant from the summit ridge.

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.

0.7 km ENEHobcarton Crag (Hobcarton Head)738 m · North Western
0.9 km NNWLadyside Pike704 m · North Western
0.9 km WNWGasgale Crags703 m · North Western
1.2 km WWhiteside East Top (Whiteside) (Gasgale Crags)719 m · North Western
1.2 km SSEEel Crag (Birkett)807 m · North Western
1.8 km NNEHobcarton End634 m · North Western
2.2 km WNWDodd (Lorton)454 m · North Western
2.3 km SThirdgill Head Man734 m · North Western
2.3 km NNWSwinside509 m · North Western
3.0 km SSEIll Crag (Newlands) (Knott Rigg North Top)546 m · North Western
3.0 km SSWLad Hows426 m · North Western

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Sand Hill (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Whinlatter Visitor Centre (paid) — 3.4 km from summit (straight line)
Forest centre — Lord's Seat, Barf, Whinlatter fells, Grisedale Pike's back route.
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Lanthwaite Green (NT) — 3.9 km from summit (straight line)
At the foot of Grasmoor and Whiteside, Crummock Water.
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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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