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| Name: | Wythburn Fell |
| Hill number: | 3753 |
| Height: | 508m / 1667ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2396 High Raise [High White Stones] |
| RHB Section: | 34B: Lake District - Central & Western Fells |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Lake District - Central Fells |
| County/UA: | Cumberland |
| Catchment: | Derwent (Workington) |
| Class: | Birkett, Synge (B,Sy) |
| Grid ref: | NY 31187 12536 |
| Summit feature: | thin turf on outcrop |
| Drop: | 8m |
| Col: | 500m NY 3116 1248  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 90 (1:25k) OL5S |
| Survey: | obvious summit |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 193 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| A rather boggy circuit from Steel Fell car park (road to Dobgill still closed). Up past Harrop Tarn, then wet and brackeny along edge of forest to Brown Rigg. Hard pull over Blea Tarn Fell, then easier to Standing Crag and High Saddle. Hit Wythburn Fell spot on with the GPS and easy descent. Added 5 Birketts and a Fellranger. | BURGESS | 06/07/2023 |
| With Chris from Steel End CP on Thirlmere | citygent | 21/06/2023 |
| Day out with Tony. Parked at Steel End. There is now a locked gate preventing onward access to the old Dobgill CP. | chriswatson | 21/06/2023 |
| 13 Birkets after 4 weeks no rain - bone dry apart from (thankfully) a few springs. Road all closed off, so a bit of a trudge along the road after Fisher Crag back to start at Steel End carpark. Hd hoped to drop off bike at descent point to road. | Dave Sargent | 13/06/2023 |
| Wythburn to Rosthwaite via a couple of Birketts | Ajm0310 | 09/02/2023 |
| On descent from Ullscarf | trimarc2 | 07/12/2022 |
| From Birk Crag, on to Ullscarf | Moorponder | 27/04/2022 |
| From the carpark at Grid 3204 1296.Bottom end of Thirlmere. Take the road to the barn where the sign shows you the the way, continue through the gates and along the path up steeply to the wall, continue through the gap and head for Birk Crag top. back to the wall and over a few Knolls too Wythburn Fell top.Continue up over more small top to the top of the stream at Grid 2932 1181 and then descend steep and rocky ground making your way to the Knoll top of Middle How. Grid 2964 1100. descend to the path and cross the stream continue on this path to the bridge cross and follow the path back to the start. | smocks and denims | 22/04/2022 |
| 3/4 Parked Dob Gill cp, up north edge of the plantation direct to summit of Brown Rigg, contoured round plantation to pick up the path back down to Harrop Tarn, from where over to Birk Crag and up to Wythburn Fell. Then contour/climbing along this pretty ridge almost to Greenup Edge, dropping down steep slopes of Greenhow Crags (just to South of the crags) onto Middle How which felt tiny. Hard to realise it is only 100 metres lower than Wythburn Fell. Lovely evening walk back down the Wythburn valley to the reservoir and walk along the reservoir edge to car. 4.5 hours. A good 'mop up' walk for hills missed on other rounds. | nickywood1 | 31/08/2021 |
| With Sue from Steel End car park, taking in Middle How, Ullscarf via SE shoulder. Interesting walk over to Wythburn Fell and Birk Crag in mist and rain. | Frank | 08/07/2021 |
| from Dobgill | jef | 26/04/2021 |
| On a very leisurely second round of Birketts. It’s amazing that this massive area of wilderness exists right in the centre of The Lake District. Bumped into the red deer herd again, after seeing them earlier on Bell Crags. With Alfie. A nice summit rock, but the cairn at 515m would seem a better choice for a “summit”. Visited the large cairn lower down too. | Dangerous Dave | 18/04/2021 |
| Wythburn Fell, Standing Crag, Blea Tarn Fell, Brown Rigg. In the snow. | tomd4 | 02/01/2021 |
| With Rachel | Littledave | 06/02/2020 |
| From Steel End car park, reasonable path. | rhalstead | 29/12/2019 |
| Parked at Dolgill Car Park and did a round of Brown Rigg, Blea Tarn Fell, Standing Crag, Low Saddle, High Saddle, Ullscarf, Wythburn Fell and Birk Crag. | clivevilla | 21/10/2019 |
| From Steel End car park on pleasant sunny day-Wythburn Fell-Ullscarf-Standing Edge.With Catman. | oscarrosie | 22/05/2019 |
| With Oscar. | catman | 22/05/2019 |
| From Steel End car park.Round of Wythburn Fell,Standing Crag,High Saddle,Low Saddle,Long Moss,Silvery Knott and Middle Crag.It was nearly dry!!! | jocks1 | 13/07/2018 |
| Round of 11 various hills, this the tenth. Accessed fellside from path S side Dob Gill. From Standing Crag, on to Birk Fell. | jonglew | 16/03/2018 |
| Solo | Vin | 02/02/2018 |
| From Birk Crag. On to Standing Crag via Ullscarf. | Wycombe Wanderer | 29/10/2017 |
| from Birk Fell | IWC | 06/10/2017 |
| Parked at Dobgill Bridge car park (currently free of charge) – After bagging Standing Crag, headed up path towards Ullscarf for about ¾km before contouring across to the knobbly E. ridge of Ullscarf – Down ridge past a few small tarns & then a short climb to the obvious summit. Continued to Birk Crag. (PM) | gerrybowes | 22/08/2017 |
| From Standing Crag, traversed the east side of Ullscarf to Black Knotts and then direct to the summit with GB. | bolton | 22/08/2017 |
| up from dobgill car park with Andy ground frozen in places | colinfielding | 13/02/2017 |
| After Birk Crag with Colin. | Andrew Pearson | 13/02/2017 |
| Descending from Ullsgarth then on down to Birk Crag. | Eddie | 21/01/2017 |
| From the currently free Dob Gill car park. As are all the others beside Thirlmere. | ngthack | 05/06/2016 |
| From Ullscarf on way back to Dob Gill. One of many rocky knolls hereabouts. Curious feature on knoll lower down: from above looks to be large cairn. When there, appears to be short, pointless piece of wall! | Aye Jimmy | 09/09/2015 |
| Up and down from Dob Gill via Harrop Tarn , morning walk | Havenchris | 08/09/2015 |
| Birk Crag, Wythburn Fell, Ullscarf, High Saddle, Low Saddle, Armboth Fell, High Tove, High Seat, Bleaberry Fell, Walla Crag | keithouk | 16/08/2015 |
| From Steel End. Steel Fell, Middle Howe, Sergeant's Crag, Eagle Crag, Lining Crag, Ullscarf, High Saddle, Low Saddle, Standing Crag, Wythburn Fell and Birk crag. | AlunRees31 | 15/06/2015 |
| Climbed from Grasmere via Far Easedale,Greenup edge and Ullscarf then down long undulating east ridge | robert | 02/09/2014 |
| From Harrop Tarn | mcbiydw2 | 08/08/2014 |
| Dobgill Bridge Beacon, Whythburn Fell Dobgill Bridge. | Andy Hirst | 03/07/2014 |
| W Jenx from road below Birk Crag. Great ridge on a sunny day. Continued to Ullscarf in strangely dry underfoot conditions. Descended via Harrop tarn. | nordicstar | 22/06/2014 |
| Parking at the car park to the south west of Thirlmere (Dobgill Bridge) from where a concessionary path leads directly upwards toward Harrop Tarn. | moorsman | 14/05/2014 |
| From Standing Crag via the nice but inconveniently located 483m Middle How (Synge). Then to Birk Crag (Synge) | RHW | 01/09/2013 |
| MJ CJ KJ | chrisj1965 | 25/08/2013 |
| Birketts - walk W/DER5.Sttart Dobgil CP. Brown Rigg > Blea Tarn Fell > Standing Crag > Coldbarrow Fell (Low Saddle) > Coldbarrow fell (Hight Saddle) > Ullscarf > Wythburn Fell. Warm, Suuny day. Start not easy to find and not a lot of paths with rough grass walking but stunning views of larger hills. | Hill Wanderer | 18/06/2013 |
| Dobgill CP > Harrop Tarn > WYTHBURN FELL rocky outcrop with patches of grass > Ullscarf > Coldbarrow Fell - High Saddle > Low Saddle > Standing Crag > Bell Crags [Long Moss] [Blea Tarn Fell] > Brown Rigg > Dobgill CP | Tony Hartry II | 01/12/2012 |
| Birkett route DER5 | CaralynR | 10/11/2012 |
| Brown Rigg, Bell Crags, Standing Crag, Ullscarf, Wythburn Fell | ronaldo333 | 20/10/2012 |
| From Dobgill CP via Ullscarf | Anduril | 22/09/2012 |
| Next to Dob Gill Bridge car park - Wythburn Fell via path through woods next to Dob Gill and across fell after Harrop Tarn | benarbia_8 | 29/04/2012 |
| walk-ullscarf | babsjess | 25/04/2012 |
| R | Richard Tait | 15/04/2012 |
| Solo, in showers: Shoulthwaite - High Rigg (all tops) - Castle Rock - Great How - Raven Crag - Castle Crag - Fisher Crag - Wythburn Fells - Wythburn. Dropped down to Harrop Tarn, then to Birk Crag, then up lovely ridge to top. Missed bus by 1 minute. | Mark Jackson | 10/04/2012 |
| Mild day, cloudy, misty on top of the higher mountains. Rained in the middle of the day off and on, but it was a good day. Very boggy underfoot. | rjlowndes | 10/03/2012 |