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Outlying Fell — South Lakeland

Staveley Fell

Staveley Fell at 265m (869ft) is an Outlying Fell above the Kentmere valley near Staveley in the South Lakeland group, giving views across the valley and towards the Kent estuary.

265 m
Height
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Bonus Birkett
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Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast

Modelled guidance for the 265 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 19° to 16°C, gusts to 29 mph, 2.0 mm of rain forecast.

Tue 28 Jul
🌦️
19° / 16°
💨 29 mph
🌧 2.0 mm (82%)
Wed 29 Jul
🌦️
19° / 14°
💨 22 mph
🌧 0.5 mm (89%)
Thu 30 Jul
🌦️
16° / 8°
💨 27 mph
🌧 0.3 mm (73%)
Fri 31 Jul
☁️
18° / 4°
💨 24 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (65%)
Sat 1 Aug
🌦️
17° / 7°
💨 15 mph
🌧 2.4 mm (41%)
Sun 2 Aug
☁️
20° / 9°
💨 17 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (27%)
Mon 3 Aug
🌦️
19° / 10°
💨 12 mph
🌧 0.2 mm (16%)

Forecast snapshot from 28 Jul 2026, 04:58 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 265 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.

About the walk

Key information

Staveley Fell

Staveley Fell at 265m (869ft) is an Outlying Fell above the Kentmere valley near Staveley in the South Lakeland group, giving views across the valley and towards the Kent estuary. Wainwright included it in his Outlying Fells guide. A pleasant, undemanding walk above the lower reaches of the Kentmere valley.

Classifications & hill data
Outlying Fell
South Lakeland
265 m
Height
869 ft
In feet

Map & nearby Birketts

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

Nearest parking: Gummer's How car park (free), about 0.7 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Staveley Fell (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.

2.4 km NNEBirch Fell318 m · Southern

Terrain & access

A 265 m top with a mapped path to within about 2 m of the summit. The summit is not on CRoW open access land, and the direct approach crosses land that is neither access land nor a right of way — there may be no public right to the top, so check access before you go.

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 Staveley Fell

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

Gummer's How car park (free) — 0.7 km from summit (straight line)
Short, family-grade climb of Gummer's How above Windermere's foot.
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Mill Side, Whitbarrow (verge) — 6.5 km from summit (straight line)
For Whitbarrow (Lord's Seat) — limestone pavement and easy walking.
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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.

Buses to Staveley Fell from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Stagecoach X6
Kendal – Levens – Grange-over-Sands – Ulverston – Barrow (A590 corridor)
Catch it from: Kendal/Windermere (change at Kendal)
Year-round. Handy for the South Lakeland outliers: Whitbarrow (Mill Side area), Gummer's How (Newby Bridge) and Hampsfell (Grange-over-Sands, which also has trains).

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

Maps & guidebooks for Staveley Fell

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