⛰️ Watendlath Fell (Long Moss)

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

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515 mBirkett — Central (not a Wainwright summit)+9 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Watendlath Fell at 350m (1,148ft) is the broad, heathery fell above the beautiful hamlet of Watendlath above Borrowdale, its open summit giving fine views of the hamlet and tarn below. A Birkett fell on the ridge above Watendlath. The ascent from Watendlath is short and gives pleasant views of the Borrowdale fells. A good short walk for visitors to this secluded hamlet.

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 NShivery Knott491 m · Central
0.9 km NMiddle Crag484 m · Central
1.1 km ESEBell Crags (Long Moss) (Blea Tarn Fell)559 m · Central
1.3 km NEArmboth Fell (Birkett)479 m · Central
1.6 km SLow Saddle656 m · Central
1.6 km EBrown Rigg462 m · Central
1.7 km SSEStanding Crag611 m · Central
1.9 km SColdbarrow Fell - High Saddle675 m · Central
2.1 km NEFisher Crag421 m · Central

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Watendlath Fell (Long Moss) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Watendlath (NT, paid) — 1.7 km from summit (straight line)
End of the narrow Watendlath road — Grange Fell, Great Crag, Armboth fells.
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Stonethwaite (roadside, limited) — 2.8 km from summit (straight line)
Small roadside area near the hamlet — Eagle Crag, Sergeant's Crag, Langstrath approaches.
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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).

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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