Is Nethermost Pike a Wainwright?
Yes. Nethermost Pike is one of the 214 Wainwrights: number 26 of 35 in Book 1, The Eastern Fells, of Alfred Wainwright’s Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells.
Climbing Nethermost Pike from Wythburn car park
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Nethermost Pike is 891 m high, 9th of the 214 Wainwrights by height, and belongs to the Eastern Fells in Book 1. This route starts from Wythburn car park, where parking is paid. The car park sits at about 190 m, and the Wythburn Church bus stop, about 130 m away, is served by the 555.
The line is 3.4 km long and gains about 710 m. After a short track from the car park, it joins a public bridleway at about 65 m and stays on it for 3.1 km. OpenStreetMap grades almost all of that bridleway mountain hiking.
The climb is long and even. The line reaches about 430 m at 1 km, 700 m at 2 km and 860 m at 2.8 km. From there it runs nearly level for about 400 m, dipping slightly to about 855 m.
At about 3.2 km the route leaves the bridleway for a path that is not graded for difficulty on the map. The last 230 m rise to the top at 891 m, where a cairn is mapped.
About 3.2 km of the line follows the public bridleway and 3 km crosses open access land. A stretch of about 35 m on the track near the car park is on neither in the data.
The GPX file is the same line, from the car park to the summit. Return the same way, or plan a longer walk with a map before you set out.
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Where Nethermost Pike stands
Nearest Wainwrights
- Helvellyn0.9 km away · 950 m
- Dollywaggon Pike1.2 km away · 859 m
- Catstye Cam1.7 km away · 890 m
- White Side2.5 km away · 863 m
- Birkhouse Moor2.6 km away · 718 m
Straight-line distances between summits.
All the fells in The Eastern FellsAll 214 Wainwrights
Map and route data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Heights along the route from OS Terrain 50. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
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Access land © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Heights, grid references and summit positions come from The Database of British and Irish Hills v18.3, used under CC BY 4.0.