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774 mWainwright — North Western Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+9 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Wandope at 772m (2,533ft) is the western arm of the Grasmoor massif, a high ridge with outstanding views of Crummock Water and the coastal plain beyond. Wainwright described it as giving one of the finest low-angle views of Crummock Water — the long lake spread across the valley below the fell in a beautiful composition. The ascent from Buttermere via Whiteless Pike and Whiteless Edge is excellent. Combined naturally with Whiteless Pike and Grasmoor for a fine Crummock Water circuit. The coastal views on clear days are a distinctive bonus.

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.

0.5 km WSWThirdgill Head Man734 m · North Western

1.0 km NNEEel Crag (Birkett)807 m · North Western

1.3 km ESEIll Crag (Newlands) (Knott Rigg North Top)546 m · North Western

1.7 km WSWLad Hows426 m · North Western

2.1 km NSand Hill756 m · North Western

2.4 km NNEHobcarton Crag (Hobcarton Head)738 m · North Western

2.7 km NNWGasgale Crags703 m · North Western

2.7 km NNWWhiteside East Top (Whiteside) (Gasgale Crags)719 m · North Western

2.8 km SHigh Snockrigg526 m · North Western

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🦶 My hikes over Wandope (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Buttermere village (NT, paid) — 3.0 km from summit (straight line)

For Red Pike, High Stile, Robinson, Rannerdale Knotts.

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Lanthwaite Green (NT) — 4.0 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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