Walks from Burneside station
16 listed hills have a summit within 8 km of the platform at Burneside — the closest is Cunswick Scar at 1.8 km, the highest Capplebarrow at 513 m. Distances are straight lines, not routes: this page tells you a car-free day is possible here, and the planning is still yours.
- Station code
- BUD
- Grid reference
- SD502957
- Coordinates
- 54.35498, -2.76668
- Locality
- Burneside
- Operator
- Northern Trains
- Entries & exits
- 28,192 · #2,205 of 2,589
- Hills in reach
- 16
Passenger figure is the ORR estimate of all entries and exits, April 2024 to March 2025 — a measure of how busy (or wonderfully quiet) the station is, not of train frequency.
About Burneside station
Burneside station serves the village of Burneside in Cumbria, a stop on the Windermere Branch Line between Oxenholme Lake District and Windermere. It is owned by Network Rail and operated by Northern Trains, which provides all passenger train services. Until December 2012 it was a request stop.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Burneside railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0). Coordinates and the passenger figure come from NaPTAN and the ORR, not from Wikipedia.
The 16 hills within 8 km
Every hill from our dataset for which Burneside is one of the 3 nearest stations. Follow a name for the full record — heights, prominence, access rights, live summit weather and daylight.
| # | Hill | Height | Classifications | From station | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cunswick Scar | 207 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 1.8 km | SW |
| 2 | Ulgraves | 333 m | Wainwright Outlying FellSynge | 3.9 km | N |
| 3 | Scout Scar (Wainwright summit) | 233 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 4.1 km | S |
| 4 | nameless (Potter Fell - 1) | 395 m | Wainwright Outlying FellSynge | 4.3 km | N |
| 5 | nameless (Potter Fell - 2) | 390 m | Wainwright Outlying FellSynge | 4.6 km | N |
| 6 | Brunt Knott | 427 m | Wainwright Outlying FellBirkettSynge | 5.2 km | N |
| 7 | Reston Scar | 255 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 5.2 km | NW |
| 8 | Hugill Fell (Wainwright summit) | 265 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 5.4 km | NW |
| 9 | Whiteside Pike | 397 m | Wainwright Outlying FellBirkettSynge | 6 km | N |
| 10 | Todd Fell | 401 m | Wainwright Outlying FellBirkettSynge | 6.4 km | N |
| 11 | High Knott | 275 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 6.5 km | NW |
| 12 | Lamb Pasture | 367 m | Wainwright Outlying FellBirkettSynge | 7.1 km | NE |
| 13 | Grandsire | 251 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 7.2 km | W |
| 14 | nameless (School Knott) | 247 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 7.5 km | W |
| 15 | Capplebarrow | 512.7 m | Wainwright Outlying FellBirkettSynge | 7.8 km | N |
| 16 | School Knott | 231.7 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 7.9 km | W |
A hill 8 km away in a straight line can be a much longer day on the ground — and on rural lines the last train home leaves early and some stations are request stops with a handful of services a day. Check live times and facilities for Burneside before you commit, plan the route on a proper map, and give the daylight planner your real finish time.
Hill data from the Database of British & Irish Hills v18.3 (CC BY 4.0). Station position from NaPTAN (Department for Transport, OGL v3.0); passenger estimates from the Office of Rail and Road (OGL v3.0). Distances and bearings computed by OpenFell, summit to platform.
Long-distance paths from this station
One waymarked long-distance route passes within 2 km of the station — a made line to follow out of the door, or a way to link this station to the next one down the line.
| Route | Total length | From station |
|---|---|---|
| Dales Way | 129 km | 0.4 km |
Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the station computed by OpenFell.
Daylight here today
- Sunrise
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- Sunset
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- Daylight
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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for the station. Walking to a timetable means walking to the light: set your turnaround with the daylight safety planner.
Plan the day
- Walking-time calculator — Naismith with terrain and fitness corrections.
- Access checker — what the land around here allows.
- Kit-list generator — packed for the forecast, not for habit.
- Burneside on National Rail — live departures, facilities, engineering work.
- OS Maps · Google Maps