⛰️ Swinside

509 m · Birkett — North Western (not a Wainwright summit) · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

509 mBirkett — North Western (not a Wainwright summit)+10 bonus Birketts within 3 km

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 SWDodd (Lorton)454 m · North Western
1.4 km SELadyside Pike704 m · North Western
1.7 km SGasgale Crags703 m · North Western
1.9 km ESEHobcarton End634 m · North Western
2.3 km ENEWhinlatter Top525 m · North Western
2.3 km SSESand Hill756 m · North Western
2.5 km NGraystones455 m · North Western
2.5 km SEHobcarton Crag (Hobcarton Head)738 m · North Western
2.7 km NKirk Fell (Lorton)437 m · Western

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Swinside (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Whinlatter Visitor Centre (paid) — 3.3 km from summit (straight line)
Forest centre — Lord's Seat, Barf, Whinlatter fells, Grisedale Pike's back route.
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Lanthwaite Green (NT) — 4.2 km from summit (straight line)
At the foot of Grasmoor and Whiteside, Crummock Water.
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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 77 / 77A “Honister Rambler”
Keswick – Portinscale – Hawse End (Catbells) – Grange – Seatoller – Honister Pass – Buttermere – Lorton – Whinlatter – Keswick (circular)
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 from Windermere/Ambleside or X4/X5 from Penrith)
Seasonal (roughly Easter–October). Brilliant for the North Western fells: Catbells, Dale Head from Honister, the Buttermere fells and Whinlatter.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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