hikes.guideLake District

Staveley Fell

Short entry: no route or hazard notes for this fell yet.

Nearest route starts ↓
265 mOutlying Fell — South Lakeland+1 bonus Birkett within 3 km

Staveley Fell at 265m (869ft) is an Outlying Fell above Staveley-in-Cartmel, near the foot of Windermere. Wainwright included it in his Outlying Fells guide.

Summit conditions on Staveley Fell

On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 14° to 8°C, gusts to 41 mph, 2.2 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.

Full 7-day summit forecast ↓

The forecast figures are Open-Meteo’s, worked out for the summit’s height. How we check →

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Parking & buses

Gummer's How car park (free)
0.8 km from summit (straight line)
Staveley Fell, west car park (paid)
1.0 km from summit (straight line)
Stagecoach 6

Parking & buses ↓

Routes near Staveley Fell

No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest route starts we publish, in a straight line from the summit:

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Modelled for the 265 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

Full 7-day forecast
Tue 27 Oct
14° / 8°
41 mph
2.2 mm (100%)
Wed 28 Oct
12° / 9°
32 mph
6.3 mm (100%)
Thu 29 Oct
11° / 9°
17 mph
0.0 mm (14%)
Fri 30 Oct
11° / 8°
17 mph
0.0 mm (29%)
Sat 31 Oct
12° / 3°
7 mph
0.0 mm (20%)
Sun 1 Nov
10° / 3°
7 mph
0.0 mm (12%)
Mon 2 Nov
9° / 2°
15 mph
0.0 mm (0%)

Taken 27 October 2026, 08:13 UTC; the live forecast replaces it when it loads. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Parking & buses for Staveley Fell

Parking

Gummer's How car park (free) — 0.8 km from summit (straight line)
Short, family-grade climb of Gummer's How above Windermere's foot.
Directions (opens in new tab)Something changed here?
Staveley Fell, west car park (paid) — 1.0 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Staveley Fell (1.0 km). Paid parking (OSM-tagged). Grass surface (OSM-tagged).
Directions (opens in new tab)Something changed here?
Newton Fell North car park (free) — 1.8 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Newton Fell North (1.6 km), Staveley Fell (1.8 km). Free (OSM-tagged).
Directions (opens in new tab)Something changed here?
2 more places to park near Staveley Fell
Newton Fell North, north-west (layby) — 1.9 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Newton Fell North (1.6 km), Staveley Fell (1.9 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Dirt surface (OSM-tagged).
Directions (opens in new tab)Something changed here?
Staveley Fell (layby) — 1.9 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Staveley Fell (1.9 km), Bigland Barrow (2.0 km), Newton Fell North (2.0 km). Free (OSM-tagged).
Directions (opens in new tab)Something changed here?

Positions are approximate.

Vehicles are left at their owner’s risk: we list places people park and cannot vouch for any of them. Take valuables with you and leave nothing on show.

Buses

The 6 stops at Fell Foot, at Gummers How, a 1.2 km walk from the nearest parking for this fell. We haven’t mapped a route up it, so we can’t tell you the walk from there to the start. As timetabled from 27 October to 1 November. Towards Ulverston (6): Tuesday to Saturday 23:36; Sunday 23:39 to Ulverston, 18:13 to Ulverston St Mary's. Checked against the operator’s timetable, 24 September 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.

Stagecoach 6
Barrow-in-Furness – Dalton – Ulverston – Haverthwaite – Newby Bridge – Bowness – Windermere (some journeys on to Kendal)
Catch it from: Windermere · Barrow-in-Furness
Year-round, seven days, roughly hourly Monday to Saturday: the Furness peninsula's way into the Lakes without a car, and the bus for Gummer's How (alight at the Gummers How turn above Newby Bridge). Registered by Stagecoach as one service from Barrow through Ulverston to Windermere and Kendal; part of the council's bus improvement funding, which the National Park names in its 2025 transport review.

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

Getting there across the Lake District: Buses · Parking map · By train · By boat

Hazards on Staveley Fell

We have not written a hazard card for this fell yet, and that is not a sign that it is low-hazard. Check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected. The National Park Authority’s What to pack page, AdventureSmart’s hill walking kit list and Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s safety page are linked from our what to carry guide.

If you need Mountain Rescue

Dial 999 or 112 and ask for the Police, then Mountain Rescue.

Before you call, have ready: where you are (a grid reference if you can – the OS Locate app shows yours on your phone), what has happened, how many of you there are, and your mobile number.

Then stay where you are until the rescue team contacts you.

If you cannot make a voice call because of a hearing or speech impairment, emergency SMS works only if you have registered first: text “register” to 999.

From Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s guidance on calling them out (opens in new tab) (read 26 October 2026).

Map & nearby Birketts

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap, with SRTM elevation data (switch layers top-right).

Parking, toilets and buses: Parking & buses ↑.

Birketts within 3 km of Staveley Fell

These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits. Distances are straight lines: check the ground and access on a map before adding one.

2.4 km NNEBirch Fell318 m · Southern

On the hill: terrain and water on Staveley Fell

Access on Staveley Fell

Access: the open datasets show no access land and no recorded right of way reaching this summit. That describes the mapping, not necessarily the ground — permissive arrangements often go unmapped — but we don’t publish approach detail for fells where we can’t point to a public right or a landowner’s invitation. If you know of an access arrangement for this fell, we’d genuinely like to hear about it.

Local restrictions can close open-access areas temporarily — check the official open-access information (opens in new tab) before travelling.

How we worked out the access

Summit and approach positions are tested against Natural England’s CRoW Act 2000 access layer; rights of way and wall or fence detail come from OpenStreetMap. Both are open datasets with known gaps — in our own survey only 4 of 26 wall and fence crossings had a stile or gate mapped within 150 m — so absence of a mapped feature never means absence of a real one. Nothing here is field-verified unless marked, and none of it is legal advice. How we checked 377 fells.

Access land: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

About Staveley Fell

Classifications & hill data

Is Staveley Fell a Wainwright?

Staveley Fell is one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells, not one of the 214 in the Pictorial Guides.

Selected lists

265 m
Height
869 ft
In feet
SD 3895 8686
Grid ref

This is the summit’s grid reference. If you call from anywhere else, give your own position, not this one.

The summit is not a Birkett top.

Lists, height and summit position from the Database of British and Irish Hills; the feet are converted from its metres and the grid reference from that position. How we check →

Other fells near Staveley Fell