⛰️ Wren Crag

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

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311 mBirkett — Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)+8 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

The north top of Green Crag at 475m (1,558ft) is a rocky subsidiary summit on the northern end of the Green Crag massif above Dunnerdale, giving views across the moorland plateau to the higher fells to the north. A Birkett top for those exploring the full extent of the Ulpha Fells above the Duddon valley. The views of Harter Fell (Eskdale) from this northern aspect are distinctive.

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.

0.7 km SECastle Rock339 m · Eastern
1.4 km SGreat How (Thirlmere)333 m · Eastern
1.6 km NWHigh Rigg (High Rigg South Top)343 m · Eastern
1.6 km WSWThe Benn (Sippling Crag)446 m · Eastern
1.8 km NECalfhow Pike660 m · Eastern
2.0 km SWCastle Crag (Shoulthwalte)404 m · Eastern
2.1 km ELittle Dodd (St John's Common)785 m · Eastern
2.8 km SSEBrown Crag610 m · Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Wren Crag (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Legburthwaite (United Utilities, small) — 0.6 km from summit (straight line)
St John's in the Vale — Sticks Pass side, High Rigg, Raven Crag.
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Swirls, Thirlmere (paid) — 3.2 km from summit (straight line)
The standard west-side route up Helvellyn via Browncove Crags.
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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 555
Kendal – Staveley – Windermere – Ambleside – Rydal – Grasmere – Thirlmere (Wythburn & Swirls) – Keswick
Catch it from: Windermere · Ambleside
Year-round, roughly hourly. The backbone bus of the A591 — ideal for Helvellyn (Wythburn/Swirls), Fairfield, the Central fells and anything around Grasmere/Rydal. From Penrith, take the X4/X5 to Keswick and change.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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