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Name: | Black Fell |
Hill number: | 2744 |
Height: | 664m / 2178ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2707 Cross Fell |
RHB Section: | 35A: The Northern Pennines |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | North Pennines - Western Fells |
County/UA: | Westmorland and Furness |
Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Eden (Carlisle), Tyne (Newcastle) |
Watershed: | Tynemouth, Ardnamurchan Point to Lowestoft, Cardiff to Cape Wrath, Dover to Cape Wrath, Lowestoft to Duncansby Head, Land's End to John o' Groats, Solway Firth, The Lizard to Dunnet Head |
Class: | Simm, Hewitt, Nuttall, Buxton & Lewis, Bridge, Clem (Tu,Sim,Hew,N,BL,Bg,Cm) |
Grid ref: | NY 64821 44408 |
Summit feature: | ground 1m S of trig point |
Drop: | 87m |
Col: | 577m NY646418 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 86 (1:25k) OL31W |
Observations: | ground to West lower |
Survey: | Abney level |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 368 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
From Hartside Pass summit: Black Fell, Tom Smith's Stone Top and Grey Nag. Descended into Slaggyford and caught a taxi back to the car. Claggy, grey cold day. | Lazylizzie | 30/09/2023 |
K and P | senrab | 09/09/2023 |
Track from the bend in the road. | robertphillips | 08/09/2023 |
Up from Renwick via Thack Moor and Watch Hill. Crossed a stile after Watch Hill, and followed ATV track most of the way. Some boggy ground. Descended to the path crossing Haresceugh Fell, though would have missed it without the GPS to indicate where it should be. More obvious later as it approached the track. Loo Gill might be awkward to cross if in spate. Pleasant walk along the road, taking the public footpath for the final 600m, avoiding the final bends in the road, and emerging at a farm gate. | LizH | 08/08/2023 |
Nuttall walk 9.8, with R. Really enjoyed the walk down along Gilderdale Burn. | Dan Baddeley | 03/06/2023 |
From Renwick straight up Thack Moor then ridge then fence over Watch Hill but then messed up cut across and nearly reached Black Fell through the crap! Followed fence on west to Tom Smiths Stone then to Gray Nag. Came back on east side 15 minutes faster - take note. On to Black Hill then Hartside and down bridleway and back road to car. | SS | 17/04/2023 |
2 of 2: From Hartside Pass summit. Snowing. With Karen. | ChrisR | 12/04/2023 |
From Hartside Pass summit. Headed north in the clag and heavy rain to Black Fell summit and trig point. My leg was hurting but I decided to carry on to Watch Hill then Thack Moor very boggy, all in zero visibility and heavy rain. Despite this lots of wildlife up there. Summit of Thack Moor; was a bit of a game to visit both the high point and trig point so had to detour to cross the wall draped with barbed wire. Headed down to Renwick then back up to Hartside summit. Time just under 4 hours for 11 miles. Ascent 1912 feet. | isabelle | 10/04/2023 |
Renwick to Thack Fell then Watch hill, Black Fell, Hartside Height, Hartside Cross, Fiends Fell and descent to Renwick via Twotop Hill & Fellgate. A dry cold day with hill fog & moor ground frozen. | Vin | 07/02/2023 |
21.6 miles 2689ft walk. Black Fell, Watch Hill and Thackmoor from Ousby. | stephenbuda | 06/07/2022 |
From Hartside Cross Pass to Black Fell via Hartside Height, along ridge to Grey Nag via Tom Smith's Stone. Return to Tom Smith, and across Croglin Water to Graystone Edge, Watch Hill and Thack Moor. Return to Hartside Cross via Black Fell. | raymooremanx | 11/06/2022 |
Thack Moor on track from Renwick then path all the way to the summit, easy going. then drove round to hairpin bend directly south of Black Fell summit. Not so straightforward, no path after initial track and in thick cloud. Not easy to find summit in the conditions. | dickscroop | 06/06/2022 |
Afternoon walk after fiends fell and Melmerby Fell in the morning. Black Fell , Tom Smith's Stone Top and Grey Nag. Heavens opened ten minutes after I set off so aborted the idea of including Thack Moor. | Longwojo | 20/05/2022 |
With Deborah, Rory & Graham. | Donpeblo | 12/05/2022 |
A lovely walk in spring sunshine from Renwick to Thack Moor and then following the ridge line to Black Fell and Hartside and mostly byways back. | milimana | 08/05/2022 |
3/3 Melmerby Fell and Fiends Fell (repeats) then over the Alston road to Black Fell. Three Nutalls on an LDWA group walk ably led by Caroline Roy. Jolly chilly with a little snow on the ground but a grand day.Valley up from Melmerby is glorious. | nickywood1 | 03/04/2022 |
My 4th summit of the day. I approached from Thack Moor having started my journey from Cold Fell that morning. Fabulous views towards Cross Fell. | morgs4mountains | 22/03/2022 |
Climbed Black Fell, Tom Smith's, Grey Nag & Thack Moor from Hartside Summit on a clear but chilly day. Very wet underfoot, but easy walking otherwise. About 22km, with only 330m of ascent. | oldbagger27 | 22/11/2021 |
Gilderdale horseshoe from Gilderdale bridge layby - Grey Nag, Tom Smith's Stone Top, Blackfell, Hartside Height, Benty Hill and Scarberry Hill. Overcast, blowy day. With Gillian and Graham | richard69 | 13/11/2021 |
Bog snorkeling, Hartside- Black Fell- Tom Smith Stone- Grey Nag (and back) | wcroasdell | 30/10/2021 |
From Hartside Pass, Black Fell, Tom Smith’s Stone, Grey Nag, Tom Smith’s Stone, Watch Hill, Thack Moor, Watch Hill, Black Fell, Hartside Pass. Not as bad as it could have been. Good path to Black Fell, then deteriorates through lurid green bogs and self-levelling lakes of black peat, until routes coalesce just S of Tom Smith’s Stone around the perimeter of a super massive green hole MEB, from which water does not escape even at the end of Summer. Otherwise, ATV tracks alongside many fences/walls, especially on W arm of the ‘Y’. Stiles over walls at Watch Hill. A handy ATV track crosses Croglin Water at the point where the valley suddenly narrows (about NY643456). High P – nice weather? – pah! Cold wind, low cloud and mizzle, drizzle, rain, all day - it’s a Bank Holiday! | Isbjorn | 30/08/2021 |
G | Idris | 04/08/2021 |
Renwick, over Thack Moor, Watch Hill Black Fell and Hartside Height to road, then tracks back to Renwick. | Flatfield | 17/07/2021 |
Walked up from Hartside on a wet, misty morning, following the fence/wall to the top. | JohnW | 26/06/2021 |
From Hartside quarry parking area, via Hartside Height and Little Daffenside (661m spot height top). | Nick Down1 | 01/06/2021 |
700th Cumbrian Tump. Easy route from Hartside | conanharrod | 31/05/2021 |
Used MTB to get to start of walk | Pete Pozman | 27/04/2021 |
From Hartside Pass | IWC | 17/04/2021 |
TD, C & H | This Dog | 30/08/2020 |
As per Nuttals, but with insertion of Thack Moor before Black Fell. Return down valley was very rough underfoot, but I set up 2 Barn Owls out of the tussocky boggy moorland. | IanHHill | 06/08/2020 |
By the fence from Hartside Cross. | Peter_W_Mitchell | 17/07/2020 |
Hartside Summit-Black Fell-Grey Nag-Tom Smith's Stone Top-Watch Hill-Thack Moor-Renwick-Hartside Summit | muzza2 | 17/07/2020 |
Followed Nuttalls route warm, overcast and hazy | dgresty | 09/06/2020 |
Renwick, Thack Moor, Watch Hill, Tom Smith's Stone Top, Grey Nag, Black Fell, Renwick. | PGCE | 16/05/2020 |
Black Fell and Thack Moor with Ben in high winds. | axoree | 10/02/2020 |
10:00, 2 degrees, strong south-westerlies, cloud swirling around summits but gradually improving. Black Fell initially out of cloud, then came down and straightforward navigation suddenly not so simple. Found the trig anyway and set compass for Watch Hill. | Wycombe Wanderer | 20/01/2020 |
very boggy and partially frozen solo last Nuttall of the day | colinfielding | 31/12/2019 |
Renwick circular route with Lauren “Bog” cold and windy! | Sockpan | 20/10/2019 |
Black Fell, Tom Smith’s Stone, Grey Nag from Castle Nook. | lenman | 18/07/2019 |
Followed the Nuttalls route, via Grey Nag and Tom Smith's Stone Top. After reading previous comments I was prepared for the peat hags which were wet but manageable. | Gary Heath | 24/03/2019 |
From U-bend in road to S. Good track to the mine, then across the rubbish. On to Tom Smith's Stone and Grey Nag. Lots of peat hags to negotiate. | jonglew | 15/01/2019 |
13.3 mile circular from Castle Nook farm. Walked along Pennine Way south towards Alston then followed walled track onto the moors, climbed over easy walls onto Park Fell Summit and trig then left summit enclosure under barbed wire in broken wall, followed pathless but fairly easy ridge onto Benty Hill (all fence crossings are easy not barbed after Park Fell), then ascended Hartside Height onto Black Fell, followed broad ridge to Tom Smiths Stone Top Nuttall then Grey Nag, the numerous bogs on the way are still fairly dry at the minute. From Grey Nag descended east pathless at first then ATV track to Little Heaplaw, and descended steeply down to road, along road back to start. High Cloud/sunny, unsurprisingly saw no one all day. | DanTrig | 04/08/2018 |
From Hartside | tomd4 | 22/07/2018 |
From Alston via Park Fell/Bently Hill | Coxswain | 20/06/2018 |
Via Nuttall route | Slash3 | 02/06/2018 |
From Car park near ruins of the Hartside Café - across the moor rising to Black Fell via Little Daffenside - Black Fell Summit and Trig (664) - descend towards Long Tongue Beck then rise onto Watch Hill Summit (602) past the currocks and on to Thack Moor Summit (610) & Trig - track towards Townhead but turned to Outhwaite - Flowering Wood - Peas Crook - Haresceugh - lane to Seleh Bridge - Bridleway via Ricker Gill bridge to Hartside and Car | briandavies | 28/05/2018 |
Enjoyable circular walk from Renwick-Thack Moor-Watch Hill-Black Fell-Hartside summit(shame about the cafe burning down).With Oscar and Bridget. | catman | 20/05/2018 |
With Bridget and Catman. | oscarrosie | 20/05/2018 |
With Catman and Oscar. | rosiebridge | 20/05/2018 |
Nice walk up from the cafe 
 
Lot of bog on the top | Darren-443 | 26/08/2017 |