⛰️ Troutbeck Tongue

364 m · Wainwright — Far Eastern Fells · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

364 mWainwright — Far Eastern Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+1 bonus Birkett within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Troutbeck Tongue at 364m (1,194ft) is a long, narrow ridge jutting into the Troutbeck valley, its summit giving fine views of the valley and the Ill Bell ridge above. Wainwright described it as a fell of unusual character — the ridge narrows to a genuine tongue of land with steep sides visible from the valley below. The ascent from Troutbeck village is short and pleasant. A distinctive little fell that rewards the walker with valley views and a sense of the Troutbeck landscape.

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.

2.5 km NWSt Raven's Edge593 m · Far Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Troutbeck Tongue (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Kirkstone Pass (laybys / inn) — 3.2 km from summit (straight line)
High start for Red Screes (30 min!), Caudale Moor and Middle Dodd.
Directions ↗
Kentmere Institute (donation, very limited) — 3.9 km from summit (straight line)
Tiny — arrive by 8am or use the verges lower down. Kentmere Horseshoe: Yoke, Ill Bell, Froswick, Kentmere Pike.
Directions ↗

Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Stagecoach 508 “Ullswater Bus”
Penrith – Pooley Bridge – Aira Force – Glenridding – Patterdale (summer services continue over Kirkstone Pass to Troutbeck and Windermere)
Catch it from: Penrith · Windermere (summer only)
The key route from Penrith for the Eastern and Far Eastern fells: Helvellyn from Glenridding, Place Fell, the Hartsop fells. The summer Kirkstone extension drops you at the pass for Red Screes and Caudale Moor.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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