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378 mBirkett — Far Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)+6 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.

1.0 km SWHigh Dodd501 m · Far Eastern

1.2 km WLow Birk Fell373 m · Far Eastern

2.1 km WSWBirk Fell (Bleaberry Knott - Birk Fell)512 m · Far Eastern

2.2 km SWThe Knight552 m · Eastern

2.5 km NWGreen Hill - Gowbarrow Park439 m · Eastern

2.5 km SEBrownthwaite Crag444 m · Far Eastern

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🦶 My hikes over Sleet Fell (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Aira Force (NT, paid) — 2.5 km from summit (straight line)

For Gowbarrow Fell and the path toward Great Dodd via Dockray.

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Martindale, St Peter's church (free, limited) — 2.9 km from summit (straight line)

Quiet side of Ullswater — Hallin Fell, Steel Knotts, Beda Fell, Pikeawassa.

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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 508 “Ullswater Bus”

Penrith – Pooley Bridge – Aira Force – Glenridding – Patterdale (summer services continue over Kirkstone Pass to Troutbeck and Windermere)

Catch it from: Penrith · Windermere (summer only)

The key route from Penrith for the Eastern and Far Eastern fells: Helvellyn from Glenridding, Place Fell, the Hartsop fells. The summer Kirkstone extension drops you at the pass for Red Screes and Caudale Moor.

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

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