⛰️ Whoap

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

511 mBirkett — Western (not a Wainwright summit)+4 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Whoap at 511m (1,676ft) is a small, heathery summit above Ennerdale, its open top giving views of the western fells and towards the coast. A Birkett fell in the remote western Lake District above Ennerdale. The ascent is across open moorland. A quiet, little-visited fell in a beautiful remote setting.

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.

2.4 km WSWKinniside375 m · Western
2.6 km ESEIron Crag (Ennerdale Fell)640 m · Western
2.9 km WSWLatter Barrow354 m · Western
3.0 km NNEBowness Knott333 m · Western

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Whoap (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Bowness Knott, Ennerdale (free) — 3.4 km from summit (straight line)
Forestry car park on Ennerdale's north shore — Great Borne, Starling Dodd, and the long walk-ins to Pillar and Steeple.
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Cold Fell road (verge) — 4.6 km from summit (straight line)
Verge parking on the Calder Bridge–Ennerdale road for Lank Rigg and Ponsonby Fell.
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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

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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