Whinlatter (Brown How - Whinlatter) Hiking Guide & Routes

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

📖 Key Information

Whinlatter at 525m (1,722ft) is the fell above Whinlatter Pass — the broad, wooded ridge between Braithwaite and Lorton — its open summit giving views west to the coast and north to Bassenthwaite Lake. Wainwright noted the unusual character of this heavily forested fell and the fine views from its summit. The Whinlatter Forest Park below offers excellent waymarked cycling and walking trails. Most naturally combined with Lord's Seat for a circuit of the Whinlatter fells.

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.

0.6 km ESEWhinlatter Top525 m · North Western

1.5 km ETarbarrel Moss493 m · North Western

1.7 km SSEHobcarton End634 m · North Western

1.8 km NWGraystones455 m · North Western

1.9 km SWSwinside509 m · North Western

2.0 km ENEUllister Hill525 m · North Western

2.3 km ENESeat How (Thornthwaite)495 m · North Western

2.3 km NWKirk Fell (Lorton)437 m · Western

2.5 km SSWLadyside Pike704 m · North Western

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Whinlatter (Brown How - Whinlatter) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Whinlatter Visitor Centre (paid) — 1.9 km from summit (straight line)

Forest centre — Lord's Seat, Barf, Whinlatter fells, Grisedale Pike's back route.

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Braithwaite village (roadside/small areas) — 4.2 km from summit (straight line)

Start of the Coledale Horseshoe: Grisedale Pike, Causey Pike round.

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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.

Stagecoach X4 / X5

Penrith – Rheged – Threlkeld – Keswick – Braithwaite – Cockermouth – Workington

Catch it from: Penrith

Year-round, frequent. From Penrith this is your way into Keswick and the Northern fells — Threlkeld/Scales stops serve Blencathra directly, Braithwaite serves the Coledale fells.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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