Yew Bank
Yew Bank at 207m (679ft) is a low, pathless rise of heather and bracken west of the foot of Coniston Water, in the quiet Woodland corner of Wainwright's Outlying Fells.
Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast
Modelled guidance for the 207 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
On the summit today (Fri 11 Sep): 15° to 9°C, gusts to 22 mph, 0.4 mm of rain forecast.
Forecast snapshot from 11 Sep 2026, 08:30 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 207 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.
Yew Bank at a glance
Getting there
Classifications & hill data
The short answers
Is Yew Bank a Wainwright?
Yew Bank is one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells, not one of the 214 in the Pictorial Guides.
Where do you park for Yew Bank?
The nearest car park we hold is Stephenson Ground Farm car park (free), about 2.0 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is Stephenson Ground Farm, south-east car park (free), 2.0 km out. We only look within 2.5 km, measured straight-line: over longer distances a road may cross a pass and the drive bears no relation to the line.
Routes up Yew Bank
No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest routes we publish start close by:
- Low Light Haw — starts 3.4 km away
- Dunnerdale Fells — starts 4.0 km away
- Top o' Selside — starts 4.1 km away
Parking & buses for Yew Bank
Best parking to hike Yew Bank
Where we have the data, each parking spot also shows the nearest public toilets and facilities (cafés, pubs, shops).
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.
Vehicles are left entirely at their owner’s risk. We list places people park; we cannot vouch for any of them. Judge it on the day: take valuables with you, leave nothing on show, and if a spot feels wrong when you get there, park somewhere else.
Getting to Yew Bank by bus
The nearest bus stop we hold is the 505 at Coniston, outside John Ruskin School, 7.8 km of walking from the start — not realistically reachable without a car.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Hazards on Yew Bank
No hazard card for this fell. The usual open-fell rules apply: check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected.
Map & nearby Birketts
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.
Nearest parking: Stephenson Ground Farm car park (free), about 2.0 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.
Birketts near Yew Bank (within 3 km)
No bonus Birketts within 3 km — every Birkett near here is already a Wainwright summit, so just enjoy the walk.
On the hill: terrain and water on Yew Bank
Terrain & access
A near-path top (about 499 m): a mapped path comes within about 127 m of the summit, with a last stretch of open ground (about 14 m of ascent, up to ~15°). 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 144 fells.