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| Name: | Moss Gate |
| Hill number: | 16692 |
| Height: | 253m / 830ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2810 Black Hill |
| RHB Section: | 36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines |
| County/UA: | Oldham |
| Catchment: | Mersey |
| Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
| Grid ref: | SD 93013 10563 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: ground 20m SSE of trig point |
| Drop: | 67m |
| Col: | 186m SD933071  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 109 (1:25k) OL21S 277 |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 54 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From WSW. Parked on Rochdale Road, about 170m SW of the Oldham Way - Followed Oldham Way before heading E. over pasture & collapsed wall to the unmarked summit & nearby trig point. Excellent viewpoint. | gerrybowes | 25/10/2023 |
| Walked up from newhey. | chevyfire | 22/06/2023 |
| Here for the trigpoint. TP:UK log: Interesting start to this on a footpath that had seen better days, very overgrown and big dips and hidden culverts. Good views from the trigpoint. | thejackrustles | 18/07/2022 |
| Parking area to SSW opposite school, along road then followed FP to top and trig, back down Rochdale Way and then Moss Gate Road. Done at dusk. | PeterD | 10/10/2021 |
| Moss Gate [Hey Farm S2788] from GR: SD 92806 09870, car park by park. Could park closer at northern end of Brellafield Drive. Large herd of cattle in summit field. | ronaldo333 | 27/09/2021 |
| a rather nice frozen grassy hill with trig and views. | Denise | 01/02/2021 |
| From Milnrow up the excellent cobbled Garside farm track then over fields of pasture to summit. Extensive all-round views on a cold but sunny morning, no snow but ground frozen hard. High point seems to be 9m SE of trig pillar. A messy descent through Whitfield Hall and Park Farm. | RichardM | 01/02/2021 |
| From Brellafield Drive via extremely wet and treacherously slippery footpath/stream then paddy fields. One of those little hills that is barely noticeable from below but a surprisingly commanding viewpoint. | Wycombe Wanderer | 30/01/2020 |
| 8 of 8 on 21 mile grueller bike ride. Lots of cows in the way. Had to make sure to steer well clear of the bull | The-Z-Man | 15/07/2019 |
| Followed Moorsman's sound advice.Reasonable views from top.With Oscar. | catman | 11/05/2019 |
| With Catman. | oscarrosie | 11/05/2019 |
| Easy roadside parking down Moss Gate Road. Follow the track until a footpath leaves it heading left. THIS PATH FOLLOWS A STREAM BED AND IS FLOODED AFTER RAIN, IT IS PASSABLE BUT VERY WET (READ OTHER REVIEWS). Most people appear to follow this route to the summit, but, rather than follow the flooded track back follow the path through Green Hill. 20 minutes return. | moorsman | 07/03/2019 |
| Parked on Moss Gate Road then along pot holed road then footpath to the top. Done in the dark again! | John Eley | 22/12/2018 |
| Parked at top of Brellafield Dive. Fp more like a brook than fp. No bulls encountered. On holiday in Benidorm although this seems a silly choice of holiday for a bull. Oldham completed. Not over enthralled, Im afraid. | Campbell Singer | 11/11/2018 |
| Parked on Moss Gate Road, followed track to 2nd footpath on left then up to top | Bramley | 05/09/2018 |
| as for Aye Jimmy | arranc | 13/08/2018 |
| As David Gradwell. Massive snowdrifts in the northerly enclosed footpath. | David Evans | 04/03/2018 |
| Possibly some of the muddiest fields I ever walked through! | Dusty | 25/11/2017 |
| finally got to this Oldham trigged tump at last for sunset from the sw on ROW and for the second time today across a field with cows, calves and a bull, which growled menacingly as I passed by 50metres away, cautiously. On my return after a glorious sunset two cows and calves had come nearer across the route I'd walked up. I went over to the other far side of the field and yet again the bull let out a continuing low growl, but didn't move at all. Phew! | vegibagger | 19/06/2017 |
| A quick jaunt Ascent from Jubilee Colliery, A663, Whitfield Hall, Moss Gate (& Trig) - Muddy top but the cows seem happy enough. | briandavies | 26/12/2016 |
| Burnedge (dropped off by Dugswell) to Newhey. | Smudge | 18/12/2016 |
| 1st of four hills from Milnrow to Derker station and my Oldham completion walk. Over the M62 and into Newhey taking track out Sw and then fp's meeting the Rochdale way, easy to veer off and visit the summit. Beautiful light and ponies encountered on the way up. High point a few metres away from the trig.I continued on the Rochdale way to Moss gate road through some atrocious muddy/manurey quagmire en-route to Crompton Moor. | Dazingdale | 04/12/2016 |
| As ngthack and it was definitely a stream today and foggy on top as well so little in way of views | Mark Sims | 14/11/2016 |
| From John Milne | underhill | 06/11/2016 |
| Climbed steeply from the north up a flag stone track and field fps. Pre WW1 this was Lancashire cotton spinning country with its coal fields powering the mills. The cotton being brought in by the Rochdale canal with its cross Pennine link. Close by is the preserved 120 foot chimney (tall to get a good draught)of the engine shed and boiler house that powered (the now demolished) Elenroad Cotton Mill. | Chris Pearson | 05/08/2015 |
| Parked on the B6194 and used the Oldham Way from the WSW to access the field with the trig and summit. | Dugswell2 | 01/05/2015 |
| From B6194 to west. Moss Gate track, then second footpath on left. Is it a path, is it a stream ? | ngthack | 28/01/2015 |
| From 927 100 | GordonAdshead | 11/09/2014 |
| From B6194 road to SW took track leading to Whitfield Hall. After passing playing fields on R and behind some nice houses f/p leads off to left. Followed this, mostly in a beck-bottom, to open fields and trig. Highest point about 20m away. | Aye Jimmy | 11/05/2014 |
| from Memorial park, Newhey, with Dick Hill & Moy Hill. cool, mainly cloudy. | joseph mitchell | 26/02/2014 |
| Parked on Moss Gate Rd at junction with Greenhill Ave at SD 92532 09974. Walked up road (becomes track) to second public footpath on left. Highest ground 20m SSE of trig | David Gradwell | 05/05/2013 |
| On a cycle-bagging ride from Tandle Hill to Walsden. Locked my bike on a cul-de-sac on the south side and took a path up the fields to the trig. Really quite a fine viewpoint over Rochdale. | Jake994 | 14/06/2012 |
| pasture summit, nice view. paths from estate to SSW | RHW | 21/08/2005 |
| Alex C | 06/05/2023 | |
| David84 | 22/05/2022 | |
| andy63 | 03/01/2021 | |
| Adrian | 05/10/2020 | |
| PM | 17/11/2019 | |
| jimbloomer | 23/02/2019 | |
| Andy West | 06/06/2018 | |
| Aimless Rambler | 28/03/2018 | |
| GaryJones | 22/08/2017 | |
| asbown | 14/10/2016 | |
| andrew brown | 18/02/2016 | |
| Ozymandias | 04/04/2015 | |
| RobertP | 15/03/2015 | |
| PeteF | 30/09/2014 | |
| Alan Caine | 24/05/2014 | |
| malcorbett | 21/04/2011 | |
| bluewater | 11/01/2011 |