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| Name: | Hotbank Crags |
| Hill number: | 15980 |
| Height: | 327m / 1073ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2313 Sighty Crag |
| RHB Section: | 33: The Scottish Border to the River Tyne |
| County/UA: | Northumberland |
| Catchment: | Tyne (Newcastle) |
| Class: | Tump (300-399m) (Tu,3) |
| Grid ref: | NY 77582 68476 |
| Summit feature: | rock on grassy knoll |
| Drop: | 68m |
| Col: | 259m NY765686  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 86 87 (1:25k) OL43W |
| Survey: | obvious summit |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 208 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From Houseteads CP. Up past the fort and along the wall to the high spot of Hotbank Crags. Rerturn to the fort and carried on to Sewingshields Crags trig, return to the fort and back down the path to the CP. | smocks and denims | 15/01/2024 |
| From the station at Bardon Mill - Thorngrafton Common, Housesteads, Hotbank Crag, The Sill for lunch, Winshield Crag, Cawfield Crags, Haltwhistle. Due to a helicopter dropping dumpy bags of stone the section of the wall including Highshield Crags, Steel Rigg and the former Sycamore Gap was closed for the week. A ranger diversion N of Crag Lough was necessary. When the path restoration starts the ranger estimated it would be closed for about 6 weeks. Overcast day with low cloud over Winshield but a welcome bowl of soup at the Sill. With Gillian | richard69 | 14/11/2023 |
| Steel Rigg car park £4. Peel Crags, Highshield Crag and Hotbanks Crags. 4 miles round trip. | clivevilla | 10/10/2023 |
| Climbed again while walking Hadrian's Wall. | Dugswell2 | 01/08/2023 |
| 1st of 5 hills on an 18km circuit from Housesteads car park with Lesley. Continuing to Hotshield Crags... | Dazingdale | 18/06/2023 |
| Hadrian's wall walk - with GW | JohnIvor | 16/05/2023 |
| From the layby east of the road junction to the SE. | robertphillips | 24/03/2023 |
| Walked along Hadrian's Wall from Steel Rig Carpark and photographed Sycamore Gap on the way. | Deego | 18/03/2023 |
| Walking Hadrian's Wall | Archie | 13/06/2022 |
| Walking Hadrian's Wall | KathW | 13/06/2022 |
| On Pennine Way. | PGCE | 19/04/2022 |
| Walk from Steel Rigg to Housesteads. | hils | 26/03/2022 |
| Long walk from Haltwhistle Station to Bardon Mill Station via Hadrian's Wall | trimarc2 | 12/10/2021 |
| Used the Pennine Way path going N then along the wall to the top | Andrew Simmons | 26/09/2021 |
| With Jayne Whitaker on Hadrian's Way during leg from Steel Rigg to Chollerford. | pwhitaker_1966 | 02/09/2021 |
| From Steel Rigg car park along Hadrian's Wall path > Highshield Crags > Hotbank Crags > Sewingshields Crags. Return via paths and tracks 500m N of the wall saves a lot of climbing. | JohnR | 26/08/2021 |
| Steel Rigg to Housesteads on HWP | afoster | 18/03/2020 |
| Beautiful section of Hadrian's Wall. A lovely walk with Alfie on a sunny crisp autumn Sunday afternoon. | Dangerous Dave | 27/10/2019 |
| Crossed Sewingshield Crags, Hotbank Crags, Highshield Crags, and Peel Crags on Day 9 of A Pennine Journey from Acomb to Steel Rigg. With Annette, Christine, Eric, and Geoff. An awful day. A gale force head wind with driving rain. We got soaked. 27km with 800m of scent in 8 hours. | silveracorn_alan | 30/05/2019 |
| Hadrian’s Wall path W->E. With JAS and KRB | kdbennett | 24/03/2019 |
| Continuing East along impressive stone brick section of Hadrian's wall in cool sun. | Denise | 18/03/2019 |
| Much the same height on both sides of the wall. | RichardM | 18/03/2019 |
| Pennine Way Day 16. Crossed Peel Crags, Highshield Crags and Hotbank Crags on the walk from Steel Rigg to Bellingham. With Eric, Geoff and Steve. The total distance for the day was 24.7km in 7 hours. | silveracorn_alan | 02/08/2018 |
| On Pennine Way with Tom | nickywood1 | 15/07/2018 |
| With CP on Pennine Way | garth87 | 12/07/2018 |
| AS PART OF EAST TO WEST ON HADRIANS WALL PATH | D SID | 05/06/2018 |
| 9.3 mile walk from Steel Rigg viewpoint car park near Once Brewed taking in the best part of Hadrians Wall. Walked up to Winshield Crags, then back to road continuing to Peel Crags, Highshield Crags, Hotbank Crags and Sewingshields Crags back via Housesteads, the day started cloudy but turned out clear and sunny, drove to and bagged Thorngrafton Common afterwards. | DanTrig | 04/11/2017 |
| After a night at the local MBA bothy I decided to return to the car along Hadrians wall. | 3 kinnears | 23/09/2017 |
| Walk along part of Hadrian's Wall | hillsman | 06/08/2017 |
| Whilst leading Macmillan charity fundraisers on their Hadrian's Wall Mighty Hike. | Wheelsy | 24/06/2017 |
| a short walk on The Wall from Housesteads with The CHAOS Club. | Lou | 03/06/2017 |
| From Peel CP over Peel Crags and Highshield Crags to Hotbank Crags and back using the lower path/track. | chrisbien | 27/12/2016 |
| Ascent with Andrew Whitaker, Julian Brooksbank and Darren Royle on leg of Pennine Way from Greenhead to Bellingham. | pwhitaker_1966 | 10/06/2016 |
| Walk from Housesteads to Sycamore Gap with Linda, DH and PH | John Lee | 15/05/2016 |
| walk from Steel Rigg to Housesteads | Myrddin Emmys | 24/04/2016 |
| Parked up near Twice Brewed - Up onto Hadrians Wall - Peel Crags - Highshield Crags - Hotbank Crags - Housestead Crags - Sewingshield Crags - back to Kings Wicket - route of old causeway across the moss north of the wall to meet the Pennine Way (headed North)- East Stonefields - West Stonefields - Greenlee - Gibbs Hill - Melkridge Common - back onto Hadrians Wall - Winshield Crag - Steel Rigg - Twice Brewed. | briandavies | 20/03/2016 |
| F/p from SE up to ridge, then WSW along Wall. | Aye Jimmy | 23/02/2016 |
| The Spine Race | dc96 | 12/01/2016 |
| From Winshields Farm bunkhouse: Winshield Crags - Peel Crags - Highshield Crags - Hotbank Crags. Great way to clear the cobwebs after the previous night's celebrations! | Tony J | 01/01/2016 |
| Visited while walking HWP. | rhalstead | 06/12/2015 |
| fa, 6 in party, club meet, rain, short walk from the fort | rum doodle | 07/11/2015 |
| When I reached summit I discovered I had been here in 1994. | Dusty | 06/10/2015 |
| From Steel Rigg car park. | Fisky Boy | 07/09/2015 |
| With Fisky Boy | Brenda Cloke | 07/09/2015 |
| Visited whilst walking Hadrians wall | Stretchy | 24/08/2015 |
| 3rd day Hadrians Wall | abbo0001 | 02/06/2015 |
| G | Idris | 01/04/2015 |
| Spine Race | Jim T | 15/01/2015 |
| From SE, layby, RoW. Night ascent, pretty straightforward. | RHW | 29/11/2014 |
| With Jo, circular walk from Steel Rigg: HWP to Peel Crags, Highshield Crags, Hotbank Crags, PW and tracks to Bell Crags (top is within security fence), then tracks to Hopealone tripillar and onto road for return along HWP over Winshield Crags. Weather; generally sunny, warm, though light rain on WC, good visibility. | amblerbob | 26/07/2014 |