Wainwrights Baggers

Book 3 · The Central Fells

Silver How

A 394 m Wainwright in The Central Fells, with one desk-checked ascent from Red Bank Road car park, Grasmere: 2.0 km and 320 m of climbing.

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Is Silver How a Wainwright?

Yes. Silver How is one of the 214 Wainwrights: number 22 of 27 in Book 3, The Central Fells, of Alfred Wainwright’s Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells.

Climbing Silver How from Red Bank Road car park, Grasmere

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The route in green, from the car park (P) to the summit (triangle), with the bus stop (B) where it falls on the map and nearby Wainwrights as dots. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Silver How is 394 m high, 202nd of the 214 Wainwrights by height, and belongs to the Central Fells in Book 3. This route starts from Red Bank Road car park in Grasmere, run by Westmorland and Furness Council. Parking is paid and the car park sits at about 70 m. The Heaton Cooper Studio bus stop is about 260 m away, served by the 555, 559, 599 and X8.

The walk is 2 km long with about 320 m of ascent. After a short service road it follows Red Bank Road, a lane, as far as 385 m and stays level at about 70 m. A footpath leaves the lane there, close to the water of Grasmere.

The footpath climbs more gradually at first, to about 160 m by 1 km and 230 m by 1.5 km. At about 1.5 km OpenStreetMap starts to grade the path mountain hiking, and this is the steepest part: between 1.6 km and 1.8 km it rises from about 260 m to 350 m. A last short path leads on, and the route leaves it for the final 10 m or so to the summit cairn at 394 m.

About 1.6 km of the line follows public footpaths, 1.3 km crosses open access land and about 350 m is on the lane. Only a short link of about 30 m by the car park is on none of these in the data.

The GPX file covers the way up only, from the car park to the top. Come back the same way, or plan a longer round with a map before you set out.

Download the GPXFree. The route is © OpenStreetMap contributors and the file is released under the Open Database Licence: you may copy, share and adapt it.

Where Silver How stands

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Silver How among all 214 Wainwright summits, each in its true position.

Nearest Wainwrights

Straight-line distances between summits.

All the fells in The Central 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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (NaPTAN, Bus Open Data Service, Lake District National Park Authority rights of way).

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.