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Birkett — Far Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)Birkett top

St Raven's Edge

St Raven's Edge (593 m / 1,946 ft) is a Birkett (one of the 541 tops in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells), one of the lesser-known Far Eastern tops.

593 m
Height
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593 mBirkett — Far Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)+1 bonus Birkett within 3 km

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

Modelled guidance for the 593 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Fri 11 Sep): 12° to 9°C, gusts to 19 mph, 1.1 mm of rain forecast.

Fri 11 Sep
🌦️
12° / 9°
💨 19 mph
🌧 1.1 mm (100%)
Sat 12 Sep
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14° / 8°
💨 43 mph
🌧 33.7 mm (100%)
Sun 13 Sep
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12° / 8°
💨 15 mph
🌧 0.3 mm (62%)
Mon 14 Sep
🌧️
14° / 8°
💨 32 mph
🌧 11.3 mm (100%)
Tue 15 Sep
🌦️
14° / 8°
💨 35 mph
🌧 4.3 mm (89%)
Wed 16 Sep
🌦️
10° / 8°
💨 31 mph
🌧 2.0 mm (78%)
Thu 17 Sep
🌦️
11° / 8°
💨 36 mph
🌧 3.2 mm (92%)

Forecast snapshot from 11 Sep 2026, 08:30 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 593 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.

St Raven's Edge at a glance

St Raven's Edge

St Raven's Edge (593 m / 1,946 ft) is a Birkett (one of the 541 tops in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells), one of the lesser-known Far Eastern tops. It rises the Swindale. The name is not securely explained, though it is likely Old Norse or Old English in origin, like most fells hereabouts. It also features on the Synge list. Its nearest tops are Red Screes (1.0 km W); Middle Dodd (1.5 km NW); Caudale Moor - John Bell's Banner (1.8 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.

Routes up St Raven's Edge

Hand-mapped, with GPX to download — full maps further down.

Classifications & hill data

Birkett
Synge
593 m
Height
1,946 ft
In feet
NY 4061 0838
Grid ref

The short answers

Is St Raven's Edge a Wainwright?

St Raven's Edge is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett list and the Synge list.

Where do you park for St Raven's Edge?

The nearest car park we hold is St Raven's Edge, north-west (layby), about 0.4 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is St Raven's Edge, west (layby), 0.4 km out. We only look within 2.5 km, measured straight-line: over longer distances a road may cross a pass and the drive bears no relation to the line.

How hard is St Raven's Edge?

The shortest way up we hold is Caudale Moor & St Raven's Edge — 13 km, 724 m of ascent, about 3.8 hours. On our scale its hardest axis is steepness — Severe.

All axes: steepness: Severe · navigation: Hard · exposure: Hard · length: Moderate · terrain: Moderate.

Parking & buses for St Raven's Edge

Best parking to hike St Raven's Edge

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

St Raven's Edge, north-west (layby) — 0.4 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: St Raven's Edge (0.4 km), Red Screes (0.6 km), Middle Dodd (1.1 km). Free (OSM-tagged).
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St Raven's Edge, west (layby) — 0.4 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: St Raven's Edge (0.4 km), Red Screes (0.6 km), Middle Dodd (1.2 km). Free (OSM-tagged).
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St Raven's Edge, north-west car park (free) — 0.5 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: St Raven's Edge (0.5 km), Red Screes (0.6 km), Middle Dodd (1.0 km). Free (OSM-tagged).
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Kirkstone Pass summit (private, paid) — 0.6 km from summit (straight line)
The big car park opposite the Kirkstone Pass Inn, the start for Red Screes (30 min to the top), Caudale Moor and Middle Dodd. Unpaved. It was the National Park Authority's until June 2026, when the Authority handed the lease back; it belongs to the inn site's owner and has been charged since July 2026 - read the sign, and do not assume the pub's custom covers it (BBC and local press, read by Lee 8 Sep 2026).
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St Raven's Edge, north-west car park (free 2) — 0.6 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: St Raven's Edge (0.6 km), Red Screes (0.6 km), Middle Dodd (0.9 km). Free (OSM-tagged).
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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.

Vehicles are left entirely at their owner’s risk. We list places people park; we cannot vouch for any of them. Judge it on the day: take valuables with you, leave nothing on show, and if a spot feels wrong when you get there, park somewhere else.

Getting to St Raven's Edge by bus

The 508 stops at Hartsop, adjacent to road end, 570 m and 28 m of ascent from the start of Caudale Moor & St Raven's Edge. The last bus is 19:51 towards Windermere (508), every day. Checked against the operator’s timetable, 7 September 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.

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 (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

Hazards on St Raven's Edge

No hazard card for this fell. The usual open-fell rules apply: check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected.

Map & nearby Birketts

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

Nearest parking: St Raven's Edge, north-west (layby), about 0.4 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near St Raven's Edge (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.

1.8 km NNECaudale Moor - John Bell's Banner755 m · Far Eastern

Routes over St Raven's Edge

12.96 km · ~724 m ascent · loop · ~3.5–5 h

⬇️ Download GPX

⚠️ Warnings: The plateau link to John Bell's Banner and the descent line are only faintly pathed — broad, featureless ground where navigation needs care in cloud.

Full route guide ↗

✎️ Planned route — drawn but not personally walked or checked yet.

A planned line is a suggestion, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate independently and carry a map & compass. How to use this guide.

On the hill: terrain and water on St Raven's Edge

Terrain & access

A 593 m top with a mapped path to within about 9 m of the summit. There is steep ground (over 30°) on the direct line — pick your line with care. 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 144 fells.

Water & shelter on the way up

On-route facilities © OpenStreetMap contributors, per route — an absent marker doesn’t mean none.

Places to stay near this fell

Greenbank Farm Bed and Breakfast (opens in new tab) guest house

about 1.8 km from the start, in a straight line

Ranked first despite being the eighth-nearest candidate because it answers more of the 6pm questions than anything else in the radius, and it answers them in its own sentences with prices attached: drying facilities, evening meals from £14.00, packed lunches at £6.00, and the only stated room composition on an independent B&B here. Its family room is a room for three, not four — which is exactly the fact a family of four needs before booking, and the reason a bare family_rooms=yes would have been a worse row than this one.

The farmhouse sits below Arnison Crag and looks across at Place Fell and Angletarn Pikes — the two fells this start's routes climb.

  • Drying room “We also have drying facilities and a large patio and garden to enjoy the view.”
  • Family rooms “Family: Room for three with a double and one single bed.”
  • Evening meal “We offer hearty home-cooked breakfasts and evening meals as well as packed lunches if required.”
  • Packed lunch “Packed Lunches £6.00”

Worth knowing before you book

These places state on their own site that they do not take children.

What each place says about itself, quoted from their own site. We have not stayed at any of them, and there are no prices, no booking and no affiliate links. Distances are straight lines from each route start, never walking times. Properties found via OpenStreetMap (opens in new tab).

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