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Birkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)Birkett top

Silverybield Crag

Silverybield Crag (395 m / 1,296 ft) is a Birkett (one of the 541 tops in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells), one of the lesser-known Southern tops.

395 m
Height
+15
Bonus Birketts
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395 mBirkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)+15 bonus Birketts within 3 km

Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast

Modelled guidance for the 395 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 16° to 15°C, gusts to 27 mph, 3.8 mm of rain forecast.

Tue 28 Jul
🌦️
16° / 15°
💨 27 mph
🌧 3.8 mm (99%)
Wed 29 Jul
🌧️
16° / 13°
💨 24 mph
🌧 5.8 mm (100%)
Thu 30 Jul
🌦️
14° / 7°
💨 29 mph
🌧 2.8 mm (87%)
Fri 31 Jul
🌤️
15° / 3°
💨 23 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (86%)
Sat 1 Aug
🌦️
15° / 6°
💨 15 mph
🌧 4.5 mm (82%)
Sun 2 Aug
☁️
17° / 8°
💨 19 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (35%)
Mon 3 Aug
🌦️
17° / 8°
💨 16 mph
🌧 0.2 mm (23%)

Forecast snapshot from 28 Jul 2026, 04:58 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 395 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

Silverybield Crag

Silverybield Crag (395 m / 1,296 ft) is a Birkett (one of the 541 tops in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells), one of the lesser-known Southern tops. It rises the upper Dunnerdale. The name comes from crag (Brittonic carreg, a rock or crag). It also features on the Synge list. Its nearest tops are Throstlehow Crag (0.7 km NE); High Scarth (0.8 km NW); Scar Lathing (1.1 km N) — it's usually taken in on a round of these neighbours. It's a worthwhile objective for anyone working through the Birkett list, or as a short extension to a bigger day on the higher neighbouring fells.

Classifications & hill data
Birkett
Synge
395 m
Height
1,296 ft
In feet
NY 2218 0390
Grid ref

Map & nearby Birketts

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.

Nearest parking: Hardknott Pass (roadside pull-ins), about 3.0 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Silverybield Crag (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.

0.7 km NEThrostlehow Crag404 m · Southern
0.8 km NWHigh Scarth487 m · Southern
1.1 km NNEScar Lathing439 m · Southern
1.3 km SEYew Bank499 m · Southern
2.0 km NNEHigh Gait Crags572 m · Southern
2.1 km SSEBorder End522 m · Southern
2.2 km SWDawsonground Crags397 m · Southern
2.4 km WGreat How - Eskdale Fell522 m · Western
2.5 km WSWEskdale Fell - Whinscales425 m · Western
2.7 km SWWhin Crag (Eskdale)358 m · Southern
2.8 km EStonesty Pike765 m · Southern
2.8 km SWGoat Crag312 m · Southern
2.9 km NPen762 m · Southern
2.9 km ENECrinkle Crags South Top (First Crinkle)834 m · Southern
2.9 km ELittle Stand740 m · Southern

Terrain & access

A pathless top (about 395 m) — the nearest mapped path is about 302 m away, the open ground you’d cross to the summit (about 30 m of ascent, up to ~28°). The summit is on CRoW open access land.

Computed from open data, not walked — pathless ground needs confident navigation, and mapped paths, barriers and access boundaries can be incomplete. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (via Overpass); Natural England CRoW Access Land; DoBIH; Copernicus GLO-30. See the terrain & access report for how this is worked out across all 145 fells.

Best parking to hike Silverybield Crag

Where we have the data, each parking spot also shows the nearest public toilets and facilities (cafés, pubs, shops).

Hardknott Pass (roadside pull-ins) — 3.0 km from summit (straight line)
Limited pull-ins near the pass summit for Hard Knott and Harter Fell. Don't block passing places.
Directions
Wasdale Head (NT car park) — 4.8 km from summit (straight line)
National Trust, pay & display (free for members). The classic base for Scafell Pike, Great Gable, Kirk Fell, Yewbarrow. Fills very early.
Directions
🍺 Wasdale Head Inn

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 Silverybield Crag from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

No regular bus serves the start points for this fell — this is one for the car (or a long approach from the nearest served valley). The nearest hubs are Penrith (X4/X5 & 508), Ambleside and Windermere (555, 505, 516).

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

Other fells near Silverybield Crag

Maps & guidebooks for Silverybield Crag

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