Seat Hiking Guide & Routes

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

📖 Key Information

Seatallan at 692m (2,270ft) is an isolated, solitary summit above Wasdale, its rounded bulk quite separate from any other fell group. Wainwright described it as giving outstanding views of Wastwater from the summit — the lake seen from above with Illgill Head opposite and the sea beyond is a distinctive and beautiful prospect. The ascent from Nether Wasdale is long but rewarding. A genuinely secluded summit with the finest Wastwater views from the western side of the valley.

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.

1.6 km SLooking Stead (Pillar)628 m · Western

1.8 km SWPillar Rock780 m · Western

2.1 km NWHigh Stile (Grey Crag - High Stile)806 m · Western

2.6 km SWBlack Crag828 m · Western

2.8 km ENEHonister Crag (Black Star)634 m · Western

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🅿️ Potential parking

Gatesgarth Farm, Buttermere (paid) — 2.0 km from summit (straight line)

Farm car park at the foot of Haystacks, Fleetwith Pike and the High Stile ridge.

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Buttermere village (NT, paid) — 3.7 km from summit (straight line)

For Red Pike, High Stile, Robinson, Rannerdale Knotts.

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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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