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| Name: | Barnacre Moor |
| Hill number: | 16739 |
| Height: | 218.9m / 718ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2815 Fair Snape Fell |
| RHB Section: | 36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines |
| County/UA: | Lancashire |
| Catchment: | Wyre |
| Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
| Grid ref: | SD 53320 47647 |
| Summit feature: | no feature |
| Drop: | 32.5m |
| Col: | 186.4m SD 5353 4826  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 102 (1:25k) OL41W |
| Observations: | grass mound 250m SSW at SD 53185 47436 is 1.2m lower |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 66 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| As Peter D, from pull-in on W. side of bridge - Up road & RoW, & then up over pasture to the obvious summit mound. | gerrybowes | 05/12/2023 |
| By footpath from the north then a soggy stroll over the various grassy rises. Fine views to north and west | Colin Crawford | 25/11/2023 |
| From NE car park on fell road as for Nicky Nook. Up alongside Baranacre reservoir which is an off stream reservoir (not blocking any stream /valley) but drawing its water by intake pipe from the moorland River Calder close by. The sturdy perimeter fell wall is the work of craftsmen, horizontally laid square cut blocks but with a cut top wedge shaped block to allow the wall to slant uphill. Less impressive was the 2015 mistake when water was drawn from here, during maintenance, which contained cryptosporidium (from animal faeces) to 750,000 consumers in Fylde - causing diarrhoea. It cost United Utilities £23 million in compensation and £450,000 in a fine and court costs all because someone forgot to do a risk assessment for using this water temporarily whilst The Garstang pump house was being repaired. The sheep I passed on this hill may have been descendants of those responsible? | Chris Pearson | 14/10/2022 |
| PaulOnFoot | 08/06/2022 | |
| Parked near bridge to ESE, then up road to FP. Followed uphill towards masts then veered north to HP in pasture. | PeterD | 12/05/2022 |
| mae | 09/12/2021 | |
| Barnacre Moor from GR: SD 53562 48265 | ronaldo333 | 27/11/2021 |
| Barnacre Moor from GR: SD 53562 48265 | Hippster | 27/11/2021 |
| conanharrod | 01/03/2021 | |
| Grizedale Bridge round | Flatfield | 13/02/2021 |
| pwithnall | 10/01/2021 | |
| Roadside parking (SD 5355 4750). RoW for less than 100m, then direct. | jonglew | 01/01/2021 |
| David84 | 27/11/2020 | |
| Scorton, nicky nook, Holme wood, Grizedale bridge, barnacre moor, scorton | Lancylass | 08/09/2020 |
| Ascended by the footpath to the east, which was very wet. The flat summit though grassy was saturated, which was not easy for the sheep or the farmer. | JohnW | 15/03/2020 |
| Ben Rinnes | 27/01/2020 | |
| Parked on wide road to east of hill. Over fp stile and then straight up steep pasture to north of gorse and directly to several tops, some man made. Indeterminate. | Campbell Singer | 13/01/2020 |
| Parked by reservoir then walked along track visiting high points towards mast compound. | cjo | 24/11/2019 |
| Various grassy mounds and aerial enclosures with land generally disturbed. HP possibly at enclosure entrance? From Nicky Nook and back to Grizedale Bridge on grey day. | Denise | 22/11/2019 |
| RichardM | 22/11/2019 | |
| Weather fair. | MountainMac | 24/08/2019 |
| AdyGray | 12/08/2019 | |
| From Oakenclough - overgrown ROW from east which curves round to track at top to masts | Mark Sims | 18/07/2019 |
| Parked at the start of the footpath to the east. This leads directly past the summit. 900m return. 15 minutes | moorsman | 08/03/2019 |
| Scorton - Nicky Nook - Holme Wood Hill - BARNACRE MOOR - Grizedale. High point uncertain, lots of grassy mounds! | citygent | 18/02/2019 |
| From Grizedale Bridge. First on to Holme Wood Hill, then Nicky Nook. Watched a starling murmuration here | Wayne Mac | 14/02/2019 |
| Pat1967 | 14/02/2019 | |
| ScaSey | 04/02/2019 | |
| Final hill of the day on circuit from Grizedale Bridge. By the aerials with good view eastwards to Bleasdale Moors. Interlocking spurs aplenty - the old geography lessons not entirely in vain! | JOHNS | 04/01/2019 |
| From Grizedale Bridge on a dull,overcast afternoon-first easy saunter up Holme Wood Hill,then on to Barnacre Moor along good track beginning at side of reservoir.With Oscar. | catman | 04/01/2019 |
| With Catman. | oscarrosie | 04/01/2019 |
| From Nicky Nook, descended to Grizedale and walked along the valley towards Higher Lane. Ascended to Burns Farm and Moor House,before taking right of way that goes past the summit. Returned to the car at Grizedale Bridge. With HT and JT. | Sprog | 07/10/2018 |
| from bank farm easy path | colinfielding | 02/09/2018 |
| carole engel | 01/09/2018 | |
| Adrian | 25/07/2018 | |
| Dave Geere | 26/04/2018 | |
| Up track from road, lots of man made mounds, highest natural point seems to be on S side of compound | Bramley | 06/04/2018 |
| dickiewren | 22/03/2018 | |
| With Jo, circular walk from Grizedale Bridge. Road and track via Calder Side, both tops, then continuing on tracks/paths past Burns Farm to Grize Dale and then permissive path through Holme Wood. Weather; generally sunny with cool breeze, good visibility. | amblerbob | 29/01/2018 |
| Parked at Calder Side and walked uo FP to masts. Walked round the compound. HP seemed to be on S side (except for the man-made mounds to the East). Wet underfoot as expected. Good views from the top area. | Andrew Pearson | 22/01/2018 |
| PM | 29/12/2017 | |
| Parked opposite reservoir entrance. 25 minutes there and back. | Longwojo | 06/12/2017 |
| This and Holme Wood Hill | bardolph | 06/04/2017 |
| From reservoir to NE. Didn't visit new (2020) summit location | RobertP | 05/02/2017 |
| From Grizedale Bridge CP. Solo. The natural highest point would seem to be on one of the flat topped areas just north of the mast enclosures. However, there currently two large piles of soil between the enclosures. The summit is the top of these! | ADT | 26/11/2016 |
| From E. | jimbloomer | 22/09/2016 |
| Parked on surprisingly quiet lane near Bank Farm. Good weather. Good views - especially liked the carpet of trees to the south. Pondered why farmers obliterate footpath signs and why so many wind turbines don't turn in a stiff breeze. | Wycombe Wanderer | 17/07/2016 |
| GaryJones | 24/02/2016 | |
| From parking spot opposite entrance to Grizedale Lea reservoir. Good track up to masts. | mart0797 | 29/01/2016 |
| With Evan, Sail, Danu, Coel & Alfie. | Dangerous Dave | 24/01/2016 |