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Outlying Fell — West CumbriaAlso a Birkett

Water Crag

Water Crag at 305m (1,001ft) is a Birkett fell in the West Cumbria group above the Duddon estuary, its modest summit giving views across the coastal lowlands.

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305 mOutlying Fell — West Cumbria✓ summit is also a Birkett+0 bonus Birketts within 3 km

Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast

Modelled guidance for the 305 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 17° to 15°C, gusts to 33 mph, 1.9 mm of rain forecast.

Tue 28 Jul
🌦️
17° / 15°
💨 33 mph
🌧 1.9 mm (90%)
Wed 29 Jul
🌧️
17° / 13°
💨 27 mph
🌧 3.1 mm (98%)
Thu 30 Jul
🌦️
14° / 9°
💨 29 mph
🌧 2.8 mm (70%)
Fri 31 Jul
🌤️
16° / 5°
💨 23 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (73%)
Sat 1 Aug
🌦️
16° / 7°
💨 15 mph
🌧 3.3 mm (47%)
Sun 2 Aug
☁️
18° / 10°
💨 20 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (24%)
Mon 3 Aug
🌦️
17° / 9°
💨 19 mph
🌧 0.4 mm (17%)

Forecast snapshot from 28 Jul 2026, 04:58 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 305 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.

Pro mountain forecasts: MWIS · Met Office mountain forecast

About the walk

Key information

Water Crag

Water Crag at 305m (1,001ft) is a Birkett fell in the West Cumbria group above the Duddon estuary, its modest summit giving views across the coastal lowlands. Part of the low fell country south of the main Dunnerdale hills. A quiet, unfrequented summit.

Classifications & hill data
Outlying Fell
West Cumbria
Birkett
Synge
305 m
Height
1,001 ft
In feet
SD 1538 9748
Grid ref

Map & nearby Birketts

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.

Nearest parking: Devoke Water turning, Birker Fell road (verge), about 1.7 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Water Crag (within 3 km)

No bonus Birketts within 3 km — every Birkett near here is already a Wainwright summit, so just enjoy the walk.

Terrain & access

A near-path top (about 305 m): a mapped path comes within about 52 m of the summit, with a last stretch of open ground (about 2 m of ascent, up to ~5°). The summit is on CRoW open access land.

Computed from open data, not walked — pathless ground needs confident navigation, and mapped paths, barriers and access boundaries can be incomplete. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (via Overpass); Natural England CRoW Access Land; DoBIH; Copernicus GLO-30. See the terrain & access report for how this is worked out across all 145 fells.

Best parking to hike Water Crag

Where we have the data, each parking spot also shows the nearest public toilets and facilities (cafés, pubs, shops).

Devoke Water turning, Birker Fell road (verge) — 1.7 km from summit (straight line)
Rough free parking by the bridleway to Devoke Water for the Birker Fell group.
Directions
Dalegarth Station, Eskdale (paid) — 3.8 km from summit (straight line)
Pay & display at the La'al Ratty terminus — Eskdale fells, Harter Fell, Green Crag.
Directions
🚺 Dalegarth Station (263m) — Accessible☕ Fellbites Cafe

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.

Buses to Water Crag from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway (“La'al Ratty”)
Ravenglass (Cumbrian Coast main line) – Eskdale Green – Dalegarth for Boot
Catch it from: Connects from the Cumbrian Coast line (not from Penrith/Ambleside/Windermere directly)
Not a bus, but the only public transport into Eskdale. Wasdale has no public transport at all — car (or a long walk in) is the realistic option for the Wasdale fells.

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

Other fells near Water Crag

Maps & guidebooks for Water Crag

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