815 mBirkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)+14 bonus Birketts within 3 km
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🎯 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.
⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information
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🦶 My hikes over Shelter Crags (Strava)
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🅿️ Potential parking
Three Shire Stone, Wrynose Pass (verge) — 3.9 km from summit (straight line)
High-level start for Pike o' Blisco, Cold Pike, Wet Side Edge and the Greenburn fells.
Directions ↗Old Dungeon Ghyll (NT, paid) — 4.2 km from summit (straight line)
Head of Great Langdale — Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco, the Langdale Pikes.
Directions ↗Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.
🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere
Stagecoach 516 “Langdale Rambler”
Ambleside – Skelwith Bridge – Elterwater – New Dungeon Ghyll – Old Dungeon Ghyll
Catch it from: Ambleside · Windermere (change at Ambleside)
The Langdale bus — Pikes, Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco all walkable from the Dungeon Ghyll stops. Seasonal frequency varies; check before relying on the last bus back.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
🌦️ 7-day summit forecast
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Other fells in this region
- Allen Crags
- Black Fell
- Bowfell
- Brim Fell
- Cold Pike
- Crinkle Crags - Long Top (Second Crinkle)
- Dow Crag
- Esk Pike
- Glaramara
- Great Carrs
- Great End
- Green Crag
- Grey Friar
- Hard Knott
- Harter Fell (Eskdale)
- Holme Fell
- Lingmell
- Lingmoor Fell (Brown How)
- Pike of Blisco
- Rossett Pike
- Scafell
- Scafell Pike
- Seathwaite Fell (Wainwright summit)
- Slight Side
- Swirl How
- The Old Man of Coniston (Coniston Old Man)
- Wetherlam