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Stone Pike

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

322 mBirkett — Western (not a Wainwright summit)+1 bonus Birkett within 3 km

Stone Pike at 322m (1,056ft) is a Birkett fell above the lower Calder valley in the far Western Fells, its open summit giving views across the coastal plain and inland. Part of the low fell country between Ennerdale and the west Cumbrian coast.

Summit conditions on Stone Pike

On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 13° to 8°C, gusts to 56 mph, 0.7 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

Stone Pike (verge)
1.3 km from summit (straight line)
Ponsonby car park (free)
2.4 km from summit (straight line)

Parking & buses ↓

No routes yet

No route guide for this fell yet.

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Modelled for the 322 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

Full 7-day forecast
Tue 27 Oct
13° / 8°
56 mph
0.7 mm (100%)
Wed 28 Oct
12° / 9°
37 mph
1.8 mm (100%)
Thu 29 Oct
11° / 9°
27 mph
0.8 mm (18%)
Fri 30 Oct
10° / 8°
27 mph
0.0 mm (29%)
Sat 31 Oct
12° / 5°
7 mph
0.0 mm (29%)
Sun 1 Nov
10° / 3°
7 mph
0.0 mm (12%)
Mon 2 Nov
9° / 2°
17 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 Stone Pike

Parking

Stone Pike (verge) — 1.3 km from summit (straight line)
1.3 km from Stone Pike.
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Ponsonby car park (free) — 2.4 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest published walking: 2.4 km from Cold Fell. Free (OSM-tagged). Unpaved surface (OSM-tagged).
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Ponsonby Fell car park — 2.7 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Ponsonby Fell (1.8 km). Fee not verified — check signage on arrival.
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2 more places to park near Stone Pike
Cold Fell car park (free) — 3.2 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Cold Fell (0.9 km). Free (OSM-tagged).
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Cold Fell (verge) — 3.7 km from summit (straight line)
3.1 km from Cold Fell.
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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 nearest bus stop we hold is the 77 and 77A stop at Buttermere, outside Court Hotel, 22.3 km of walking from the nearest parking for this fell — no bus route we hold serves it. It is a seasonal service too: 1 November 2026 is its last day of the year (confirmed with the operator, 29 August 2026); it returns on 22 March 2027.

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

Hazards on Stone Pike

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 Stone Pike

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

0.5 km NNESwainson Knott345 m · Western

On the hill: terrain and water on Stone Pike

Access on Stone Pike

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 Stone Pike

Classifications & hill data

Is Stone Pike a Wainwright?

Stone Pike is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett list.

Selected lists

322 m
Height
1,056 ft
In feet
NY 0780 0783
Grid ref

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

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 →

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