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Birkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)Birkett top

White Stones - The Band

White Stones at 568m (1,864ft) is a Birkett top on The Band ridge above Great Langdale in the Southern Fells, its position on the well-used path to Bowfell giving views across the Langdale valley and towards the Langdale Pikes.

568 m
Height
+12
Bonus Birketts
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568 mBirkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)+12 bonus Birketts within 3 km

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

Modelled guidance for the 568 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 15° to 14°C, gusts to 40 mph, 12.1 mm of rain forecast.

Tue 28 Jul
🌧️
15° / 14°
💨 40 mph
🌧 12.1 mm (99%)
Wed 29 Jul
🌧️
14° / 12°
💨 32 mph
🌧 8.4 mm (100%)
Thu 30 Jul
🌦️
13° / 6°
💨 28 mph
🌧 1.3 mm (87%)
Fri 31 Jul
🌤️
15° / 2°
💨 24 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (86%)
Sat 1 Aug
🌦️
15° / 4°
💨 15 mph
🌧 3.6 mm (82%)
Sun 2 Aug
🌫️
16° / 6°
💨 19 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (35%)
Mon 3 Aug
🌦️
16° / 6°
💨 16 mph
🌧 0.2 mm (23%)

Forecast snapshot from 28 Jul 2026, 04:58 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 568 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

White Stones - The Band

White Stones at 568m (1,864ft) is a Birkett top on The Band ridge above Great Langdale in the Southern Fells, its position on the well-used path to Bowfell giving views across the Langdale valley and towards the Langdale Pikes. Part of the classic Band route to Bowfell. A fine viewpoint on one of the Lake District's most popular ridge walks.

Classifications & hill data
Birkett
Synge
568 m
Height
1,864 ft
In feet
NY 2604 0604
Grid ref

Map & nearby Birketts

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

Nearest parking: Old Dungeon Ghyll (NT, paid), about 2.6 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near White Stones - The Band (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.

1.3 km SWShelter Crags815 m · Southern
1.4 km SWCrinkle Crags - Gunson Knott (Fifth Crinkle)822 m · Southern
1.5 km SWCrinkle Crags - Fourth Crinkle832 m · Southern
1.8 km SGreat Knott695 m · Southern
1.8 km SWCrinkle Crags South Top (First Crinkle)834 m · Southern
1.9 km NNWBuck Pike (Mickleden)606 m · Southern
2.1 km NNWBlack Crags (Mickleden)588 m · Southern
2.2 km ENEThorn Crag644 m · Central
2.2 km SSWStonesty Pike765 m · Southern
2.6 km WNWPike de Bield810 m · Southern
2.8 km SEWrynose Fell - Long Crag547 m · Southern
2.9 km SSWLittle Stand740 m · Southern

Terrain & access

A near-path top (about 568 m): a mapped path comes within about 155 m of the summit, with a last stretch of open ground (about 21 m of ascent, up to ~13°). 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 White Stones - The Band

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

Old Dungeon Ghyll (NT, paid) — 2.6 km from summit (straight line)
Head of Great Langdale — Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco, the Langdale Pikes.
Directions
🚺 Public toilets (510m) — Free🚺 Public toilets (649m) — Free🍺 Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel🍺 Sticklebarn
Stickle Ghyll / New Dungeon Ghyll (NT, paid) — 3.0 km from summit (straight line)
Direct start up Stickle Ghyll for the Langdale Pikes.
Directions
🚺 Public toilets (640m) — Free🚺 Public toilets (770m) — Free

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 White Stones - The Band from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Stagecoach 516 “Langdale Rambler”
Ambleside – Skelwith Bridge – Elterwater – New Dungeon Ghyll – Old Dungeon Ghyll
Catch it from: Ambleside · Windermere (change at Ambleside)
The Langdale bus — Pikes, Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco all walkable from the Dungeon Ghyll stops. Seasonal frequency varies; check before relying on the last bus back.

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

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