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Name:Rogan's Seat
Hill number:2740
Height:672m / 2205ft
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:NY 91928 03062
Summit feature:cairn 80m W of vehicle track
Drop:194m
Col:478m  NY882068  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 91 92
(1:25k) OL30N
Survey:Abney level
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 474 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all)ByDate of Ascent
First Nuttall of 2024 with Dave, Jim and Rick.simocity14/01/2024
Water Crag and Rogans Seat from track along william gill.robertphillips24/11/2023
From Keld: Rogan's Seat and Water Crag. Easy walk past Crackpot Hall on broad grouse tracks. Path to Water Crag by the fence was faint and very boggy. Extremely poor visibility, freezing fog throughout the day. Returned the same way due to the poor conditions.Lazylizzie28/10/2023
MGmaryjdavies20/07/2023
Solo with water crag from Tan Hill. Tough going up and down on grouse moors. Repeat ascent after I missed out Water Crag last time.dchill0112/07/2023
Tan Hill Inn - Rogan’s Seat - Water Crag - Tan Hill InnAJWSmith01/07/2023
Dales 30 no 28. With Tony and John.LANGDALE27/09/2022
From car park in Keld £3 all day bone dry underfoot then onto Water Crag.colinfielding08/07/2022
Muker, Kisdon, Keld, Crackpot Hall then tracks to top.Flatfield29/05/2022
Tan Hill Inn to the water splash featured on All Creatures Great and Small at NY 992 008 during day 21 of our Yorkshire Dales Circular Walk, visiting Water Crag, Rogan's Seat and Great Pinseat. 20km with 570m of ascent in 6 hours, with Geoff and Steve.silverwolf_alan19/05/2022
+ CliffSimonK02/05/2022
After pint in the Tan Hillconanharrod07/04/2022
From Keld/Kisdon. Big snow showers came in on way up. Really cold on way down. Went up side valley from Swinner Gill leading to Hind Hole Beck as a short cut. Not much of a path, but really secluded valley. Recommended, but came back the long way via East Grain. Due to snow couldn't escape back to Cumbria from Keld by car via Buttertubs - had to reverse and only just escaped over pass to Kirby Stephen.davechaffey03/02/2022
From Tan hill starting on the bridle way a little to the east. Then cross country using fences as a guide. Not a very inspiring route in cloud.dickscroop21/01/2022
From Keld CP via Swinner Gill.Topographer5703/09/2021
From Muker via Swinner GIll, then back via Gunnerside. Very hot, dry, almost all on estate tracks when on the moor. Dale walking very lovelyRockdoctor17/07/2021
From Scabba Wath campsite, Low Row Pasture, Blakethwaite Lead mines, crossing Blakethwaite dam, Rogen's Seat, Water Crag trig, return via Blakethwaite mines and Mill Gill. Overcast, windy. With Gilianrichard6923/05/2021
Via Swinner Gill. Straightforward but dull walk along the tracks after leaving the gillGary Heath17/04/2021
From Keld via Crackpot Hall and Swinners Gill. Great walk initially but the route to summit rather boring. Onto water crag. Returned same way.Longwojo09/08/2020
17.6 miles 2163ft walk, start at Usha Gap campsite follow river Swale to Swinner Gill, up to Rogan's Seat and on to Water Crag return by Gunnerside Beck, Muker back to Usher Gap campsite.stephenbuda03/08/2020
From south via track.Jim T18/07/2020
From Keld via Crackpot Hall and West side of Swinner Gill then recently resurfaced tracks over grouse moor to summit. Hottest day of the year so far, but cooler up here than on Blackpool beach.Peter_W_Mitchell 24/06/2020
3 hour round trip from Tan Hill Inn. Hard going with bogs alternating with deep heather. Maybe easier even if longer from the south. golden plovers numerous.gettingonabit20/06/2020
from Water Crag (straightforward) then largely pathless descent to Tan Hilljef26/05/2020
From church at Feetham follow road via Blades to Low Row Pasture. Footpath to Slade Head (Standard). Follow track to Moor House and North Rake Hush. Footpath North to Punchard Coal Level, via Friarfold Moor, Little Punchard Hill Head Moss and Punchard Moor. Follow track/footpath to West Moor, cross country to Water Crag. Follow fence line to track below Rogan’s Seat. Track to Rogan’s Seat. Follow track to Lownathwaite and North Hush and descend into Gunnerside Gill. Down the valley before ascent onto Middle Bank, Winterings, Whin Hall, Barf End and onto Low Row Pasture. Follow same route back to Feetham.raymooremanx18/01/2020
Plenty of roadside parking in Muker. Track near enough all the way, following the River Swale then up Swimmer Gill, track not overly easy to follow up here, gets a bit scrambly in places. Then good shooting road.jonglew15/10/2019
From Keld via Crackpot Hall and West side of Swinner Gill then tedious tracks over grouse moor to insignificant summit.NormanW26/08/2019
Up to Rogan’s Seat from Gunnerside, across to the nearby trig point and then around to Pinhope Seat.Eggletina08/08/2019
With Val. Hot weather. Parked on minor road west of Gunnerside. Followed track from minor road almost all the way to the summit Path leads to cairn from track. Returned same route.mike.hoult24/07/2019
With MikeVal Deisler24/07/2019
With Kisdon, starting from Keld. Snell wind, grey day. En route to Wilmslow. Rounsfell27/03/2019
Outstanding route from Muker through the meadows, along Swaledale and up Swinner Gill before heading along shooting tracks to close to the summit then across to Water Crag a la Nuttalls but went back down the same way. Just over 4 hours round trip.clivevilla11/09/2018
Hardraw - Thwaite - Kisdon - Keld bridge - Rogan's Seat - Water Crag - Tan Hill.Mark Jackson01/08/2018
Making use of the dry weather - over moorland from Tan Hill pub at sunset.twg2717/07/2018
Muker, via CracKpot Hall,return via Gunnerside.reaper24/06/2018
SoloAimless Rambler16/06/2018
From Keld via Crack Pot Hall.Winterfloodian11/06/2018
Same as Gerry B. (except went S when he went N!!) On me own.CJM15/05/2018
Pretty much as per Nuttall's 11.3, though messed up by crossing Gunnerside Gill too early which added unnecessary effort onto an already long day.milimana18/04/2018
Keld - Pennine Way to Catrake Force - West Wood - Crackpot Hall (Ruin) - Swinner Gill Lead Mines (Ruins)- rose onto moor along East Grain (recently repaired path thanks) - then Coast to Coast path - taking the buff coloured track just past the C to C double headed sign heading for summit past the High Man Stone - Rogan Seat summit- then overshot to follow fence (Snowy drifts /low cloud) to bag trig on Water Crag. Retraced our snowy footprints back to the track and returned whence we came.briandavies18/02/2018
From Tan Hill pub...used track to the end near ruin. Then over moorland to summit. Fence runs most of the way, going better than expected.N.Morters17/08/2017
With K. Pleasing march up and down well made tracks.Ashley17/07/2017
From MukerSlash314/07/2017
Water Crag and Rogan's Seat from Tan Hill Inn.lenman01/05/2017
From café CP in Keld. £2 all day.mart079715/02/2017
FR & NBVin02/02/2017
With MVW and FR on a wet and windy dayBheinn02/02/2017
MW,NBFrank02/02/2017
Rogan's Seat and Water Crag. More or less followed route 11.3 from the Nuttall's book with the exception of going up to Crackpot hall (which still has a pan on the cooker even though it was abandoned in 1953) and also, on the way down I didn't notice the instructions to keep below “Lord Peel's shooting cabin” but I found another path that took me down to Blakethwaite Lead Mines and crossed the river there. Grouse shooting was going on at Swinner Gill and there were dead grouse on the track, one of which was not as dead as the others which I didn't like. Had lunch in the shooting hut at GR NY 922024 (thanks for leaving it unlocked, Lord Peel's cabin was locked). Had just become dark when I eventually got back to Muker.tsharp10/01/2017
With Bill when staying in Swaledale cottage - September 2017Pat Carter01/01/2017