⛰️ Stone Arthur

504 m · Wainwright — Eastern Fells · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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504 mWainwright — Eastern Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+1 bonus Birkett within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Stone Arthur at 500m (1,640ft) is a craggy rock outcrop on the ridge above Grasmere, its small but distinctive summit giving one of the finest low-level views over Grasmere and Rydal Water in the whole district. Wainwright was fond of it, noting that few summits of such modest height offer such disproportionate rewards — the view south over Grasmere lake to the wooded country beyond is superb. The ascent from Grasmere via Great Tongue is short and straightforward. A perfect half-hour ascent for visitors staying in Grasmere village.

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.

1.1 km ESEHeron Pike North Top (Rydal Fell)621 m · Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Stone Arthur (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Grasmere village (paid) — 1.9 km from summit (straight line)
For Helm Crag, Silver How, the Easedale fells and the Far Easedale round.
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White Moss (paid) — 2.3 km from summit (straight line)
Between Rydal and Grasmere — Loughrigg, Silver How, Heron Pike.
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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 555
Kendal – Staveley – Windermere – Ambleside – Rydal – Grasmere – Thirlmere (Wythburn & Swirls) – Keswick
Catch it from: Windermere · Ambleside
Year-round, roughly hourly. The backbone bus of the A591 — ideal for Helvellyn (Wythburn/Swirls), Fairfield, the Central fells and anything around Grasmere/Rydal. From Penrith, take the X4/X5 to Keswick and change.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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