⛰️ Skelgill Bank

338 m · Birkett — Central (not a Wainwright summit) · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

338 mBirkett — Central (not a Wainwright summit)+2 bonus Birketts within 3 km

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 WRowling End433 m · North Western
2.8 km WNWStile End447 m · North Western

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Skelgill Bank (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Hawse End / Skelgill Bank, Catbells (roadside, limited) — 0.9 km from summit (straight line)
Very limited roadside parking — better to use the 77 bus or the Keswick launch to Hawse End.
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Little Town, Newlands (paid, small) — 1.5 km from summit (straight line)
Newlands valley — Catbells, Maiden Moor, Hindscarth, Robinson.
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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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