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Name:Great Shunner Fell
Hill number:2716
Height:716m / 2349ft
RHB Section:35A: The Northern Pennines
Nuttall/Wainwright area:Yorkshire Dales - Northern Fells
County/UA:North Yorkshire
Catchment:Ouse (York)
Class:Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Hewitt, Nuttall,
Buxton & Lewis, Bridge, Clem
(Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,Hew,N,BL,Bg,Cm)
Grid ref:SD 84862 97289
Summit feature:windshelter
Drop:297m
Col:419m  NY880126  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 98
(1:25k) OL19S OL30N
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from cattle grid easy parking, hood rigg, little shunner fell fence line shelter has been built against trig point 7.2 ks 2 hrsunderhill16/03/2024
From cattle grid top of road. Just follow fence, an atv vehicle has, makes it even easier. Interesting seat shelter at top.hils25/02/2024
In the snowBugglePopples04/12/2023
Great Shunner Fell and Lovely Seat from the HP of the minor road, ground frozen quad tracks to both.robertphillips25/11/2023
Nuttall Walk EN 11.6. Great Shunner Fell up the Pennine Way from Hardraw, then across country to Lovely Seat, and back via Sedbusk. 21km with 700m ascent, taking just under 6 hours.silverwolf_alan17/09/2023
Hawes - Lovely Seat - Little Shunner Fell - Great Shunner Fell - HawesAJWSmith09/08/2023
On ldwa A Foot in 2 Dalesdaviemore15/07/2023
With Lovely Seat, from parking at Cattle Grid.mazz19/06/2023
Been a rather depressing week for me and the Boo. We both needed cheering up and GSF was a good antidote. Not overtaxing but just looked a very long way away until you stood on the top from the Hardraw direction.Alphaville19918/05/2023
From Hardraw via the Pennine Way. Fine whale-back with extensive views.GWR Chris16/05/2023
From Thwaite via Pennine Way. Wintery showers, patchy snow towards summit.steve_a12/04/2023
Hawes - Great Shunner FellJHes10/12/2022
On the Pennine Way from Hardraw on a gloriously sunny day, returning via the old mine workings on Jinglemea Bog and Cotterdale.milimana13/10/2022
With Tony & John. Dales 30 no 24.LANGDALE18/08/2022
Bagged as part of the Afoot In Two Dales Challenge hikedazedemon16/07/2022
From cattle grid, as others, followed the boundary fence most times.iangalbraith01/07/2022
Buttertubs pass cattle grid -> Great Shunner Fell -> Buttertubs -> Lovely Seat -> Buttertubs pass cattle gridbriandiggle14/06/2022
With Sue and NB from Thwaite, PW to Stoney Band and Shunner Fell, drop to Little SF and follow fence to road and cattle grid and up to Lovely Seat. Descend by Greenseat Beck and lanes and paths to start. Sunny and cold wind.Frank19/04/2022
On Pennine Way.PGCE14/04/2022
From Sedbusk, adaptation of Nuttall walk 11.6. Path to Hardraw , Pennine Way thencontrary to book and maps, the fence goes all the way to cattle grid on Buttertops pass road, followed fence to summit of Lovely Seat. Descended roughly parallel to road to pick u good bridleway back to Sedbusk.Lazylizzie02/04/2022
Ascent from YHA Hawes, following the Pennine Way. Then directly across to Lovely Seat crossing the Buttertubs Pass road.OM1227/03/2022
Ascent of Lovely Seat from Hawes, via Sedbusk, Shutt Lane, Little Fell Clint, North Rakes Hill, Pike Hill and Sod Hole Gill. On to Great Shunner Fell from Bull Bogs, Grimy Gutter Hags and Little Shunner Fell. Return to Garsdale Station via Pennine Way, Cotterdale, Cotter Riggs, Thwaite Bridge, and A684.raymooremanx07/09/2021
From minor road starting at cattle grid. Followed anticlockwise arc of fencing to summit. Mostly on ATV tracks and almost all on good ground.Topographer5703/09/2021
From Hawes along Pennine WayRockdoctor14/08/2021
Second visit. This time from Thwaite on the pw.Alan Caine31/07/2021
Revisitedneilmcoward16/07/2021
Fathers day ascent with the boys and Basilwinterwalker20/06/2021
Up Pennine Way from Hardraw to summit, off to little shunner fell, hood Rigg, down road to high Shaw, low Shaw, hardrawLancylass17/06/2021
On shortened version of Herriot Way loop. Ascent from Hardraw on Pennine Way.paulcook280907/05/2021
Great Shunner Fell, Stony Band, Oxnop Common, Lovely Seatkeithouk25/04/2021
with NB from Hardraw, foggy and rain later in day. Return same way via PW.Frank10/11/2020
with FR from Hardraw, foggy and rain later in day. Return same way via PW.Gentle gradient.Bheinn10/11/2020
Great Shunner Fell and Lovely Seat from Hardraw. Bitter wind, ice on the flagstonesGary Heath26/09/2020
20.2 miles 2661ft walk, start at Usha Gap campsite follow Swaledale past Keld to Birk Dale then Little Sled Dale and Long Gill to Gregory Chapel on ridge, along to High Seat, Archy Styrigg, Hugh Seat, follow fence line to Great Shunner Fell then Pennine Way back to Usha Gap campsite.stephenbuda06/08/2020
10 miles 1687ft walk, start at Usha Gap Campsite up road to Butter Tubs sinkholes then up to Great Shunner Fell and return on Pennine Way to Usha Gap.stephenbuda02/08/2020
From cattle grid. Quite boggy. Short eared owl near top.gettingonabit19/07/2020
From thwaite via PW, followed fence to butter tubs cattle grid, up to Lovely seat. Back to cattle grid and butter tubs back to thwaite. Sunny but not too hot.Longwojo12/07/2020
From the cattle grid on Butter Tubs Pass. Followed the path by the fence all the way to the top. Hottest day of the year so far. Views restricted by distant haze.Peter_W_Mitchell 24/06/2020
Ascent from Cotterdale via forest to Bleak Haw to Great Shunner Fell. Descent to Short Moss via East Gill Gutter, on to Knoutberry Currack, following fence line to Hugh Seat. On to Long Gill Head, Gregory Chapel, and High Seat. Return to Hugh Seat via same route. Follow fence line southward to Scarth of Scaiths and on to Little Fell. Return to Cotterdale via Bubble Hill and Nattles plantation.raymooremanx23/05/2020
Start from a small car parking space at Grid 889983. route to Great Shunner Fell, return down Black Bank Common to the road.smocks and denims12/03/2020
Followed PW from Thwaite, bagging Stony Band on the way up. With Alfie.Dangerous Dave07/12/2019
From Butter Tubs high point after Dodd Fell, en route to Corran. Sunny, cold, no wind, icy. Rounsfell29/11/2019
During a long weekend with J. From just N of Thwaite where there are two places to park near the Pennine Way track. Followed the track which becomes a rather boggy path with occasional flagstones after a gate. Passed one of the large cairns (beacons) on the hill & through the gate near the summit to the welcome shelter at the top. View started to disappear & as we left the summit to return by the same way, the rain swept across the fell.NotReallyABagger19/10/2019
I was on the pennine way when I passed over the top on my way to tan hill from HardrawAristotle Chip16/09/2019
Completion of a previously bypassed stretch of the Pennine Way due to extreme weather in 2013. Completed North to South.Nick Caunt13/09/2019
From parking just South of Thwaite via the Pennine Way to the top where I chatted to a gent from Tasmania walking the Way.NormanW27/08/2019
With Val. Weather very hot. From Thwaite. There is room for a few vehicles to park on the B6270 just south of the village near a road junction. Followed Pennine way to summit. Returned by the same route. TP is built into the summit shelter.mike.hoult23/07/2019
With MikeVal Deisler23/07/2019
Standard route via Pennine Way from Thwaiteghullgd22/05/2019
Pennine Way from ThwaiteGordy22/05/2019