734 mBirkett — North Western (not a Wainwright summit)+8 bonus Birketts within 3 km
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🎯 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.
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🦶 My hikes over Thirdgill Head Man (Strava)
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🅿️ Potential parking
Buttermere village (NT, paid) — 2.8 km from summit (straight line)
For Red Pike, High Stile, Robinson, Rannerdale Knotts.
Directions ↗Lanthwaite Green (NT) — 3.6 km from summit (straight line)
At the foot of Grasmoor and Whiteside, Crummock Water.
Directions ↗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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Other fells in this region
- Ard Crags
- Barf
- Barrow
- Blake Fell
- Broom Fell
- Castle Crag
- Causey Pike
- Crag Hill (Eel Crag)
- Dale Head
- Fellbarrow - Mosser Fell
- Gavel Fell
- Grasmoor
- Graystones (Graystones North Top)
- Grisedale Pike
- High Spy
- Hindscarth
- Hopegill Head
- Knott Rigg
- Lord's Seat
- Low Fell
- Maiden Moor
- Outerside
- Rannerdale Knotts
- Robinson
- Sail
- Scar Crags
- Wandope
- Whinlatter (Brown How - Whinlatter)
- Whiteless Pike
- Whiteside (Whiteside West Top)