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| Name: | Raw Head |
| Hill number: | 2828 |
| Height: | 227.1m / 745ft |
| Area: | 36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines |
| Class: | sMa,CoU,Hu |
| Grid ref: | SJ 50846 54845 (h) |
| Summit feature: | ground by trig point |
| Drop: | 148.4m |
| Col grid ref: | SJ 52872 43925  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 117 (1:25k) 257W |
| Date of ascent: | 07/02/2009 |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 81 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Trig pillar, fine views | Webmaster | 07/02/2009 |
| Climbed on the second day of the Sandstone Trail. | Philip Bahan | 08/07/2010 |
| Climbed on the second day of the Sandstone Trail. | Philip Bahan | 08/07/2010 |
| Nice 3.5mile circular walk from layby on main road. http://www.heavyhorses.co.uk/humps | Derek Norry | 12/03/2010 |
| Done whilst geocaching | Toni B | 05/08/2009 |
| easy walk from coppermine lane, good views. | andrew bown | 04/07/2009 |
| From the road to the north, follow the clearly signposted footpath. Nice 10 minute walk to the top and good views for a small hill. | Jason Leon | 30/05/2009 |
| SOTA activation - easy walk on Sandstone Trail | Roger Leighton | 28/03/2009 |
| Got completely lost getting to the start-the Bickerton Poacher pub-but after that were fine. Along the Sandstone trail to Higher Burwardsely then back along the ridge to Raw Head. Lovely walk, lovely day, great views-despite the hail and sleet! | Andy Morgan | 08/03/2009 |
| Regular new year walk when back in the north with family | Steve Pepper | 01/01/2009 |
| Visited whilst caching. | daniel simpson | 11/11/2008 |
| Pleasent walk an easy one to do in the winter | Geoff Peel | 04/10/2008 |
| Surprisingly pleasant (though flat) walk through the woods. Some good views through the trees. | Gerald Peck | 06/09/2008 |
| Estimated date | Border Riever | 01/08/2008 |
| Approached from road to E of Harthill. Drove E from Harthill to about(509552) where path through wood joins road. Steeply up to sandstone caves just below ridge, then along top to summit (10 min). Sun with haze, views to Welsh border | David Baird | 12/02/2008 |
| Part of a walk along the Sandstone Trail. | Robert Halstead | 23/12/2007 |
| Came up to bag a geocache/waymark. | nolan webb | 02/12/2007 |
| parked at approx: SJ514538 next to phone box. Nice little walk, through wood to the top. surprising how many little crags there was. | James Traill | 07/06/2006 |
| for SOTA | Ian Eastham | 24/05/2006 |
| Just about room to park on minor dead-end road to north. If you scramble up from this side (rather than using the path) there's a large hidden cave (too deep to explore without torches. Impressively sited trig on escarpment edge. | wheresthepath | 22/04/2006 |
| Nice gentle walk up from the south having parked near the telephone box. Take care is takling this one in the dark as there are some steep drop off the path and a cave at the summit. | Ted Richards | 04/04/2006 |
| A nice little top with some spectacular sandstone cliffs. Trig BM S3124 | John Edwards | 03/01/2006 |
| Up from Coomb Dale over Sandstone Way path with the kids. Explored cave at top but over grown. | Rob Smith | 31/07/2004 |
| Parked at Harthill and walked north to drop to the correct height. Returned to Harthill and walked up the track to Droppingstone Farm. Just before the farm took the ridge trail to the trig. There were fine views back to the Clwydians in strong evening sun | Gary Honey | 12/06/2003 |
| http://tomread.co.uk | Tom Read | 16/11/2002 |
| Done on afternoon trip from locum job north of Liverpool. Did from minor dead end road to north. | Douglas Law | 04/10/2000 |
| From SJ 514 538. 2001? | Charlie Leventon | 01/01/0001 |