⛰️ Seathwaite Fell (Wainwright summit)

601 m · Wainwright — Southern Fells · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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601 mWainwright — Southern Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+8 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Seathwaite Fell at 601m (1,972ft) sits above the head of Borrowdale, its broad, boggy summit plateau forming the watershed between Styhead Gill and Grains Gill. Wainwright included it in his Southern Fells guide, noting its relatively featureless top is redeemed by good views north down Borrowdale and south-east to the Great Gable group. The ascent from Seathwaite farm is short but damp in places. More commonly visited as part of the approach to the Scafell group via Aaron Crags or as an add-on from Styhead. The true summit is the Wainwright top — the AA cairn — on the north edge of the plateau.

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.

0.5 km SSWSeathwaite Fell (Great Slack - Seathwaite Fell)631 m · Southern
1.4 km ESERed Beck Top (Glaramara South Top) (Lincomb Head - Glaramara)720 m · Southern
1.4 km SEHigh House Tarn Top (High House - Allen Crags)683 m · Southern
1.7 km ELooking Steads (Glaramara)774 m · Southern
2.2 km ENECombe Head735 m · Southern
2.3 km NEThornythwaite Fell574 m · Southern
2.8 km SSWBroad Crag935 m · Southern
2.9 km SIll Crag931 m · Southern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Seathwaite Fell (Wainwright summit) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale (free verge) — 2.8 km from summit (straight line)
Free verge parking on the Seathwaite lane — the honeypot start for the Scafells, Great Gable and Glaramara. Arrive very early.
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Honister Pass (paid, slate mine) — 3.4 km from summit (straight line)
Pay & display at the top of the pass — Dale Head, Fleetwith Pike, Grey Knotts with minimal ascent.
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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 78 “Borrowdale Rambler”
Keswick – Lodore – Grange – Rosthwaite – Seatoller
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 or X4/X5)
Year-round, frequent in season. Serves all the Borrowdale starts — Glaramara, the Scafells and Great Gable via Seathwaite (alight Seatoller, 20 min walk up the lane).
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.

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