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Outlying Fell — West CumbriaAlso a Birkett

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.

311 m
Height
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Bonus Birkett
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311 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 311 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 17° to 15°C, gusts to 33 mph, 1.9 mm of rain forecast.

Tue 28 Jul
🌦️
17° / 15°
💨 33 mph
🌧 1.9 mm (90%)
Wed 29 Jul
🌧️
16° / 13°
💨 27 mph
🌧 3.1 mm (98%)
Thu 30 Jul
🌦️
14° / 9°
💨 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 311 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

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. It is quickly reached from the fell road and pairs naturally with Rough Crag close by. The name combines seat (Old Norse sætr, a hill shieling) and how (Old Norse haugr, a rounded mound). A Wainwright Outlying Fell and a Birkett, its modest summit gives an outsized view over the tarn to the Scafells — a lot of scenery for a short climb.

Classifications & hill data
Outlying Fell
West Cumbria
Birkett
Synge
311 m
Height
1,020 ft
In feet
SD 1655 9711
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 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.

2.2 km ENEBirker Fell - Great Crag333 m · Southern

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).

Devoke Water turning, Birker Fell road (verge) — 0.8 km from summit (straight line)
Rough free parking by the bridleway to Devoke Water for the Birker Fell group.
Directions
Dalegarth Station, Eskdale (paid) — 3.6 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 Seat How (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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