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| Name: | How Hill |
| Hill number: | 16466 |
| Height: | 175m / 574ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2781 Great Whernside |
| RHB Section: | 35B: The Central Pennines |
| County/UA: | North Yorkshire |
| Catchment: | Ouse (York) |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
| Grid ref: | SE 27592 67058 |
| Summit feature: | ground 2m W of tower |
| Drop: | 60m |
| Col: | 115m SE267676  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 99 (1:25k) 298 299 |
| Survey: | obvious summit |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 65 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Parking area just south of the road junction to the east of the summit. Concessionary path to the summit. Worth an explore. Excellent views on a clear day | matty1971b | 05/11/2023 |
| 2/7 of a round of hills around Ripon. Parked on the road below and followed the permissive path to the tower. | silveracorn_alan | 05/02/2023 |
| 11 mile walk from Fountains Abbey cp, including Horse Hill and How Hill. Obvious summit next to Tower. | Flatfield | 19/08/2022 |
| On a 11 mile round walk from Ripon taking in Studley Park, Fountains Abbey, Clip'd Thorn Hill and How Hill | Moorponder | 08/08/2022 |
| Good air clarity today, extensive views. | Nick Canute | 26/05/2022 |
| 2 of 5: Parked at the start of the permissive path. | ChrisR | 20/04/2022 |
| Interesting looking boarded up tower or folly on top. | clivevilla | 11/03/2022 |
| Tower at top | Basingstone | 07/10/2021 |
| Ten minute saunter up to the Tower on the permissive path from South East. Easy and pleasant. | nickywood1 | 19/08/2021 |
| Parking area just south of the road junction to the east of the summit. Concessionary path to the summit. Worth an explore. | moorsman | 26/07/2020 |
| With VAR(S) | VIPete28 | 21/06/2020 |
| Via the usual route. Intrigued by the summit building, apparently it is built on the site of the Chapel of Saint Michael de Monte. The hill with the village of Erlesholt (now deserted) was given by Robert de Sartis to Fountains Abbey and the chapel was built in c1200. It was repaired or rebuilt between 1494 and 1526 by Abbot Marmaduke Huby. This tower was built by John Aislabie. It was as part of the first phase of the garden at Studley Park in c1718-23. Fragments of the ruined chapel were incorporated into the tower. It was used as a gaming house in 1737-8 and may later have functioned as a folly. | summitter | 15/12/2019 |
| Twilight ascent added to the atmosphere, tree and tower silhouetted against the sky. Tump of the day. | Wycombe Wanderer | 13/12/2019 |
| Permissive path from SE corner of field. Parking space just opposite. With Coel, Danu & Alfie. | Dangerous Dave | 22/07/2019 |
| After Horse Hill on bike bagging trip. Up permissive path to summit. | MrChris1980 | 20/07/2019 |
| Via permissive path from SE277669. A brief break in journey home. | summitsup | 15/05/2019 |
| Easy stroll up the permissive path | Colin Crawford | 26/03/2019 |
| along permissive path. Interesting wooly sheep in field | cjo | 09/02/2019 |
| Quick bag with my wife & daughter whilst driving from Fountains Abbey to Brimham Rocks. Room to park on roadside just a short way N of the entrance to the permissive path. Easy stroll up, great views, nice to have a tower there too. A super little hill. | wheresthepath | 14/08/2018 |
| Easy carbag.. | Shutterlag | 07/08/2018 |
| How Hill from GR: SE 27792 66939 | ronaldo333 | 13/05/2018 |
| Fantastic edifice on top. | ngthack | 05/11/2017 |
| Nipped up during a cycle ride with K. | IanHHill | 10/10/2017 |
| Parked on minor road to east, then easy up to tower. | Alan Caine | 23/12/2016 |
| Parked just passed the road junction then walked down to use the permissive path to get to the pretty former church beside the summit. | Dugswell2 | 16/12/2016 |
| Car bagging with Dugswell. | Smudge | 16/12/2016 |
| Fabulous little church on hill top Glorious little hill to celebrate my 100th north Yorkshire tump | vegibagger | 28/11/2016 |
| NT permissive path from SE. Parking 50m N of path start point. | jimbloomer | 05/04/2016 |
| As David G | Bramley | 06/01/2016 |
| Verge parking at SE 27792 66939 (on opposite side of road to concessionary path). Through small gate kept closed with inner tube. Easy walking to church/tower (ignore higher looking bump on left as you ascend). | David Gradwell | 29/12/2015 |
| With Jo, How Hill using permissive path from How Hill Road. Weather; low cloud, mild, poor visibility. | amblerbob | 02/11/2015 |
| Fallen tree has obscured start of permissive path. Great little hill, but can't think how the tower came to be built here. | GordonAdshead | 10/10/2015 |
| Bus pass day walk from South Stainley to Ripon. Nice little bump, shame ruined by a having an ugly church on summit. | Martin R | 13/01/2015 |
| Short walk up permissive path on windy,overcast day.With Oscar. | catman | 13/11/2014 |
| With Catman | oscarrosie | 13/11/2014 |
| Mainly sunny, warm. from Markington via Markenfield Hall | joseph mitchell | 08/06/2014 |
| Dis church; SE 27581 66933 woodland corner lower. From SE, permissive NT path | RHW | 14/04/2012 |
| In Studley Royal area, saw this prominent landmark. Very short walk from road. Revisit 08/04/14 to check GPS reading for tower and nearby wooded hillock. | Aye Jimmy | 04/03/2012 |
| Chris Pearson | 09/04/2024 | |
| nicolajane | 02/03/2024 | |
| Andy West | 14/02/2024 | |
| Halfdecent | 01/10/2023 | |
| Matt | 08/08/2023 | |
| Tricky | 24/03/2023 | |
| Neil Midgley | 27/07/2021 | |
| coldfeet7 | 21/06/2020 | |
| vikita16 | 21/06/2020 | |
| GoldenCloud | 21/06/2020 | |
| GaryJones | 14/06/2020 | |
| Bag For Life | 13/12/2019 |