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Name: | Great Ayton Moor |
Hill number: | 16867 |
Height: | 318m / 1043ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2832 Gisborough Moor |
RHB Section: | 37: The River Tees to The Wash |
County/UA: | North Yorkshire, Redcar and Cleveland |
Catchment: | Esk (Whitby), Catchment Boundaries, Tees |
Watershed: | Tees Bay |
Class: | Tump (300-399m) (Tu,3) |
Grid ref: | NZ 59790 12449 |
Summit feature: | large upright stone |
Drop: | 79m |
Col: | 239m NZ584127 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 93 (1:25k) OL26N |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 143 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
With sean | jordanwalmsley1987 | 12/11/2023 |
4 of 5 Parked near Kildale station. From cliff rigg picking up the Cleveland way skirting round the bottom off rose berry. Looked busy at the top today | The-Z-Man | 12/11/2023 |
Parked at Pinchinthorpe visitor centre (£4.40 all day cash/phone app). Circuit around Roseberry Topping, Easby Moor, Great Ayton Moor and Gisborough Moor. Weather improved with the day after a damp and misty start. With Gillian on the way home from Scotland. | richard69 | 13/10/2023 |
Parked above Gribdale Terrace for a circuit of Easby Moor, Cliff Rigg, Roseberry Topping and Great Ayton Moor. | PGCE | 08/10/2023 |
From Roseberry Topping, Via the Hanging Stone with The Ramblers on a 12 mile route to Guisborough | JulieB | 01/02/2023 |
After Roseberry Topping found ATV tracks up onto ridge then faint path to summit | grumpy | 11/01/2023 |
Parked at Gribdale Terrace car park. Round to Gt Ayton Moor, Roseberry Topping, Cliff Ridge Wood and Cooks Monument. | Argentum66 | 02/11/2022 |
From Roseberry Topping. Couldn't see the path. A mild heather hack but enjoying the walk so much I didn't care at all. On to Easby Moor. | Wycombe Wanderer | 16/10/2022 |
While hiking the Cleveland Way. Tried to follow the marked path on the OS map heading south from the Cleveland Way but mainly non existent. Stone pillar at the top. | fosal29 | 02/07/2022 |
EVFC club run, climb from CW from Highcliff and across moors. | paulcook2809 | 26/04/2022 |
From 60533 10482 I went firstly up to Great Ayton Moor, back down and up the other side to Easby Moor. | clivevilla | 12/03/2022 |
With Arran from Gribdale via Percy Rigg | SlowOl | 09/01/2022 |
End to end with KeithByTheC, Carol, Baggergut and Tove for Keith's last English marilyn, over Guisborough Moor, Great Ayton Moor, Roseberry Topping and Easby Moor, ending at Gribdale Gate Car Park. 10.4 miles. | JulieB | 18/12/2021 |
From Gisborough Moor via path that skirts just south of Highciiff Nab. | KeithByTheC | 18/12/2021 |
From Easby Moor CP. RT - GAM - EM. Hill fog and rain. No views. | chrisbien | 12/10/2021 |
From Gribgate along Cleveland way, approaching summit from north through heather. | peter4lc | 28/04/2021 |
10km loop round from cook's monument cp. Easby Moor, Cliff Rigg, Roseberry Topping and Great Ayton Moor. Pretty much all on paths and busy. But understandably so! | Nicky C | 10/04/2021 |
Superb clear sunny wintry for a quick ascent from the large free car park to the South. Mapped path NE not apparent- Roseberry Topping route is gravelled. HP is at boundary stone amongst heather. Great views of RT. | Denise | 17/12/2020 |
From Gribdale Gate, initially ridge top track with fine and very clear views then NE over gently rising heather moorland to the high point BS. Clear skies, bright sunshine, Green Woodpeckers and Snipe. | RichardM | 17/12/2020 |
Great Ayton Moor > Easby Moor from GR: NZ 59134 11065 | Hippster | 21/11/2020 |
Great Ayton Moor > Easby Moor from GR: NZ 59134 11065 | ronaldo333 | 21/11/2020 |
5.5 mile circular from car park north of Easby Moor, followed field paths and minor roads then across to and through woods onto Cliff Rigg, from there we followed footpath to Roseberry Topping (2nd time bagged, first time in 2004!), then along Cleveland Way towards Great Ayton Moor, approached summit from north following under-used footpath then we headed quite easily across moor to Cleveland Way and back to car park. Afterwards drove to and bagged Gisborough Moor, cloudy with rare sun, plenty of people about. | DanTrig | 20/10/2020 |
From Roseberry Topping. Failed to find the path up from the west. Going down to the north, though I did see the path at times, I was mainly off it. | Alan Moore | 01/09/2020 |
From Great Ayton via Easby moor and on over Roseberry Topping | Flatfield | 08/02/2020 |
From Roseberry Topping, with some mild heather bashing. | Colin Crawford | 17/09/2019 |
From end of public road. Track to WWII structure, then beat across short heather. | jonglew | 06/09/2019 |
From Easby Moor, along the track leading to Roseberry Topping, then cutting across the heather in the absence of the paths marked on the OS map. The summit seemed to me on the crest of the path (at last!) between the cairn and the solitary stone, from where both appeared clearly lower. | Nick Down1 | 26/08/2019 |
Evening ascent from Newton of Roseberry Topping (320m), Great Ayton Moor (318m), and Easby Moor (324m). Drizzle, low cloud, much ground water, some paths like streams. Distance ~ 12Km, ascent ~420m. | VirtualMountain | 13/06/2019 |
Running loop: Great Ayton Moor - Roseberry Topping - Cook's Monument | PreCambrianLife | 10/03/2019 |
From marked roadside car park to SSW - free | carole engel | 26/12/2018 |
From Guisborough, through Guisborough Woods and back through Hutton Lowcross Woods and past Hutton Village. Enjoyable climb and some impressive views of Guisborough and Middlesbrough lit up. Conditions - Dull/dark, windy, wet, hail at summit. | muzza2 | 18/12/2018 |
First there were many paths and then there were none. Thankfully the moor was bone dry. | Campbell Singer | 08/08/2018 |
From temporary orienteering competition CP at NZ603135. | summitsup | 29/04/2018 |
Last of day. Its been cold and wet. But the snow has made for much fun. | Dusty | 29/11/2017 |
Cleveland Way from Kildale and Roseberry Topping, diversion off scrambling through heather and indistinct footpaths | paulcook2809 | 08/10/2017 |
A round of the four local summits, from Great Ayton station | bardolph | 08/07/2017 |
From Roseberry Topping. Last bit on indistinct path via pile of stones to single Stone at HP. County/UA completion. | PeterD | 07/04/2017 |
Circular walk from south to great Ayton moor and then on west to Roseberry topping and south to other tump and back across east to car | vegibagger | 05/04/2017 |
stone pillar at summit | cjo | 12/03/2017 |
With Eire, Evan, Sail, Coel & Alfie. | Dangerous Dave | 22/01/2017 |
A trudge through the heather and sphagnum from the Capt Cook's Monument car park to the stone pillar at the summit. The bridleway marked on the map is, to be kind, indistinct. | mrs_ts7 | 27/11/2016 |
From Rosebery Topping CP, after scaling RT for the 2nd time | Crib Goch | 13/11/2016 |
Bagged as part of a walk around Roseberry Topping. | hillexplorer | 02/11/2016 |
from Great Ayton, with Easby Moor, Cliff Rigg and Roseberry (for the 4th time, well why not? it's there) | joseph mitchell | 18/09/2016 |
Unhelpful paths didn't really go where we wanted them to get to /from the summit crossing the twiggy scratchy burnt heather in shorts as the sun dipped behind Roseberry Topping. Then onto Captain Cook's monument and a run down back to Great Ayton with Darren. | Chris Pearson | 27/07/2016 |
From road end to SE | GordonAdshead | 03/07/2016 |
with Jarvis the dog | Cawth | 27/06/2015 |
Car park at Great Ayton Station, Cliff Rigg, Roseberry Topping, Great Ayton Moor, Gisborough Moor, Easby Moor. Walk with lots of variety and good paths nearly (see note under Gisborough Moor and Easby Moor) all the way. | ijpowell | 04/06/2015 |
Ample parking at the end of the Percy Cross road. Walk though the gate as far as the Starfish building and look for a path on your left. Although vague, it leads directly to the summit. | moorsman | 03/04/2015 |
Walked up from car park at Cockshaw Hill. Path across Great Ayton Moor on OS map doesn't seem to exist on the ground but a pleasant tramp across the Open Access moorland. | philos | 01/04/2015 |
From Easby Moor, straightforward navigation. | JohnStoneham | 29/03/2015 |
Ran from car park to south and up Guisborough Moor as well. | stever | 01/09/2014 |
Large carpark to S where everyone parks for Captain Cook's Monument. Followed Cleveland Way N then across heathery moor, no real path. | Aye Jimmy | 01/06/2014 |
From Kildale via Easby Moor.Must have missed paths to summit shown on O.S.map.With Bridget and Oscar. | catman | 08/12/2013 |
With Catman and Oscar. | rosiebridge | 08/12/2013 |
With Catman. | oscarrosie | 08/12/2013 |
From NNE, Hutton Village, good network of MTB and other tracks, very well depicted on OpenStreetMap. Heather deep near summit. | RHW | 09/11/2013 |
With Jo, from Gribdale car park: Roseberry Topping returning over Great Ayton Moor. Weather sunny with good visibility. Also visited Captain Cook's Monument on Easby Moor. | amblerbob | 04/09/2013 |
With: hb sb; Approached from carpark above Gribdale Terrace and over Great Ayton Moor. Quite busy but good views. Returned by same route. | Ian Baines | 29/10/2011 |
With: ib sb; | Helen Baines | 29/10/2011 |
From large car park by minor road at NZ 59231 11002. Great Ayton Moor - Roseberry Topping - Cliff Rigg - Easby Moor. | David Gradwell | 28/10/2010 |
With Tony, Sophie and Nic. Roseberry Topping-Cleveland Way to Easby Moor and Capt Cook's Monument-Great Ayton Moor-Brant Gate. | zoob | 14/08/2009 |
Locuming nearby with time to explore the local hills. | Dugswell2 | 21/09/2000 |
Can't remember when, but I've been here! | AGWilliamson | 01/01/2000 |
With David - Hanging Stone Leap - Cleveland LDWA | kindpercy | 15/08/1998 |
On TWSRT MRT exercise, day of Rugby WC semi-final that england were stuffed by Lomu! Great ride in Sea King to drop on Easby Moor, and meet at monument before search out to Gt Ayton Moor | nordicstar | 18/06/1995 |
2 of 2: From Gisborough Moor. | ChrisR | 22/09/1991 |
Orienteering when younger | brandybordeaux | blank |
Tony S | 24/09/2023 | |
Lorna S | 24/09/2023 | |
daveyf2001 | 15/07/2023 | |
daveydubs81 | 30/01/2023 | |
Fletch | 09/01/2023 | |
interloper | 09/01/2023 | |
Andy West | 10/08/2022 | |
Emma | 06/08/2022 | |
sareb86 | 26/01/2022 | |
BaggerGutt | 18/12/2021 | |
RobB | 28/10/2021 | |
dickiewren | 28/09/2021 | |
holtsd | 04/09/2021 | |
Rockdoctor | 27/03/2021 | |
timus | 14/03/2021 | |
coldfeet7 | 28/10/2020 | |
vikita16 | 28/10/2020 | |
andrew brown | 01/10/2020 | |
Ben Rinnes | 07/02/2020 | |
Adrian | 03/02/2020 | |
jimbloomer | 08/01/2020 | |
AlanD | 28/12/2019 | |
dexly | 14/09/2019 | |
AdyGray | 06/07/2019 | |
PhilipChaston | 24/09/2018 | |
matty1971b | 14/08/2018 | |
solitaryfellwanderer | 04/07/2018 | |
Alex C | 16/04/2018 | |
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mae | 12/07/2017 | |
kitp | 20/05/2017 | |
Lucky | 26/02/2017 | |
maknipe | 26/02/2017 | |
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