⛰️ Skiddaw Lesser Man

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

824 mBirkett — Northern (not a Wainwright summit)+7 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.

0.6 km EJenkin Hill735 m · Northern
1.3 km NESale How666 m · Northern
1.3 km NWSkiddaw South Top926 m · Northern
1.5 km NNWSkiddaw Middle Top929 m · Northern
2.4 km NNWBroad End832 m · Northern
2.5 km NNEHare Crag538 m · Northern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Skiddaw Lesser Man (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Gale Road / Latrigg top (free) — 2.5 km from summit (straight line)
Free car park at the road end behind Latrigg — shortest way up Skiddaw via Jenkin Hill.
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Dodd Wood (paid) — 3.4 km from summit (straight line)
Forestry car park for Dodd, Carl Side and the Ullock Pike ridge onto Skiddaw.
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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

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.

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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