490 mOutlying Fell — Pennines✓ summit is also a Birkett+0 bonus Birketts within 3 km
Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.
🎯 Bonus Birketts within 3 km
No bonus Birketts within 3 km — every Birkett near here is already a Wainwright summit, so just enjoy the walk.
⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information
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🦶 My hikes over Whatshaw Common (Strava)
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🅿️ Potential parking
A6 Shap summit (layby) — 1.9 km from summit (straight line)
High laybys on the old A6 — Wasdale Pike, Crookdale and Borrowdale (Westmorland) fells.
Directions ↗Wet Sleddale dam (free) — 5.6 km from summit (straight line)
For the quiet Shap-side fells: Seat Robert, Sleddale fells.
Directions ↗Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.
🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere
No regular bus serves the start points for this fell — this is one for the car (or a long approach from the nearest served valley). The nearest hubs are Penrith (X4/X5 & 508), Ambleside and Windermere (555, 505, 516).
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
🌦️ 7-day summit forecast
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