⛰️ Thornythwaite Fell

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

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574 mBirkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)+7 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.

1.0 km SSECombe Head735 m · Southern
1.0 km ERosthwaite Fell (Rosthwaite Cam)612 m · Southern
1.2 km ESEDovenest Top (Dovenest Crag) (Stonethwaite Fell)633 m · Southern
1.7 km SLooking Steads (Glaramara)774 m · Southern
2.1 km SRed Beck Top (Glaramara South Top) (Lincomb Head - Glaramara)720 m · Southern
2.6 km SHigh House Tarn Top (High House - Allen Crags)683 m · Southern
2.8 km SWSeathwaite Fell (Great Slack - Seathwaite Fell)631 m · Southern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Thornythwaite Fell (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale (free verge) — 0.6 km from summit (straight line)
Free verge parking on the Seathwaite lane — the honeypot start for the Scafells, Great Gable and Glaramara. Arrive very early.
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Seatoller (NT, paid) — 2.0 km from summit (straight line)
Pay & display at the foot of Honister. Bus terminus for Borrowdale.
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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 78 “Borrowdale Rambler”
Keswick – Lodore – Grange – Rosthwaite – Seatoller
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 or X4/X5)
Year-round, frequent in season. Serves all the Borrowdale starts — Glaramara, the Scafells and Great Gable via Seathwaite (alight Seatoller, 20 min walk up the lane).
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.

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