Top o' Selside (Wainwright summit)
Top o' Selside at 335m (1,099ft) is a heathery summit between Coniston Water and the Grizedale Forest, giving fine views of Coniston Water and the Coniston Fells.
Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast
Modelled guidance for the 332 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
On the summit today (Fri 11 Sep): 15° to 10°C, gusts to 19 mph, 0.8 mm of rain forecast.
Forecast snapshot from 11 Sep 2026, 08:30 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 332 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.
Top o' Selside (Wainwright summit) at a glance
Routes up Top o' Selside (Wainwright summit)
Hand-mapped, with GPX to download — full maps further down.
Classifications & hill data
The short answers
Is Top o' Selside (Wainwright summit) a Wainwright?
Top o' Selside (Wainwright summit) is one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells, not one of the 214 in the Pictorial Guides. It is also on the Birkett list and the Synge list.
Where do you park for Top o' Selside (Wainwright summit)?
The nearest car park we hold is Rigg Wood Car Park, about 1.0 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is Dodgson Wood car park, Coniston Water east shore (Forestry England), 1.2 km out. We only look within 2.5 km, measured straight-line: over longer distances a road may cross a pass and the drive bears no relation to the line.
How hard is Top o' Selside (Wainwright summit)?
The shortest way up we hold is Top o' Selside — 8.7 km, 369 m of ascent, about 2.4 hours. On our scale its hardest axis is navigation — Hard.
All axes: navigation: Hard · terrain: Moderate · length: Moderate · steepness: Moderate · exposure: Easy.
Parking & buses for Top o' Selside (Wainwright summit)
Best parking to hike Top o' Selside (Wainwright summit)
Where we have the data, each parking spot also shows the nearest public toilets and facilities (cafés, pubs, shops).
Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.
Tip: pan and zoom the interactive map at the top of this page to spot other potential parking near your route.
Vehicles are left entirely at their owner’s risk. We list places people park; we cannot vouch for any of them. Judge it on the day: take valuables with you, leave nothing on show, and if a spot feels wrong when you get there, park somewhere else.
Getting to Top o' Selside (Wainwright summit) by bus
The nearest bus stop we hold is the 505 at Monk Coniston, at Hall, 6.4 km of walking from the start — not realistically reachable without a car.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Hazards on Top o' Selside (Wainwright summit)
No hazard card for this fell. The usual open-fell rules apply: check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected.
Map & nearby Birketts
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.
Nearest parking: Rigg Wood Car Park, about 1.0 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.
Birketts near Top o' Selside (Wainwright summit) (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.
Routes over Top o' Selside (Wainwright summit)
✎️ Planned route — drawn but not personally walked or checked yet.
A planned line is a suggestion, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate independently and carry a map & compass. How to use this guide.