Seat How (Birker Moor)
Seat How (311 m / 1,020 ft) is a rocky little rise on Birker Moor beside Devoke Water, one of the string of low tops on Wainwright's Devoke Water circuit above Eskdale.
Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast
Modelled guidance for the 311 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
On the summit today (Fri 11 Sep): 14° to 11°C, gusts to 28 mph, 0.6 mm of rain forecast.
Forecast snapshot from 11 Sep 2026, 08:30 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 311 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.
Seat How (Birker Moor) at a glance
Getting there
Classifications & hill data
The short answers
Is Seat How (Birker Moor) a Wainwright?
Seat How (Birker Moor) is one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells, not one of the 214 in the Pictorial Guides. It is also on the Birkett list and the Synge list.
Where do you park for Seat How (Birker Moor)?
The nearest car park we hold is Devoke Water turning, Birker Fell road (verge), about 0.8 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is Rough Crag Birker Moor (verge, south), 0.9 km out. We only look within 2.5 km, measured straight-line: over longer distances a road may cross a pass and the drive bears no relation to the line.
Routes up Seat How (Birker Moor)
No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest routes we publish start close by:
- Green Crag & Great Whinscale — the wild Birker Fell round — starts 0.8 km away
- Birketts Around Devoke Water — starts 0.8 km away
- Boat How, Great Bank & Wainwrights — starts 3.7 km away
Parking & buses for Seat How (Birker Moor)
Best parking to hike Seat How (Birker Moor)
Where we have the data, each parking spot also shows the nearest public toilets and facilities (cafés, pubs, shops).
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.
Vehicles are left entirely at their owner’s risk. We list places people park; we cannot vouch for any of them. Judge it on the day: take valuables with you, leave nothing on show, and if a spot feels wrong when you get there, park somewhere else.
Getting to Seat How (Birker Moor) by bus
The nearest bus stop we hold is the 505 at Coniston, outside The Ruskin Centre, 17.3 km of walking from the start — not realistically reachable without a car.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Hazards on Seat How (Birker Moor)
No hazard card for this fell. The usual open-fell rules apply: check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected.
Map & nearby Birketts
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.
Nearest parking: Devoke Water turning, Birker Fell road (verge), about 0.8 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.
Birketts near Seat How (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.