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Name: | Gandy Brow |
Hill number: | 18898 |
Height: | 238m / 781ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2820 Freeholds Top |
RHB Section: | 36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines |
County/UA: | Rochdale |
Catchment: | Mersey |
Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
Grid ref: | SD 88348 15833 |
Summit feature: | grassy mound by garden wall |
Drop: | 30m |
Col: | 208m SD884159 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 109 (1:25k) OL21S |
Survey: | obvious summit |
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GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 44 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
Parked at 88511 15894 and went up Sandy Lane. I wandered all over the new housing estate trying to find a way to the summit without success but eventually realised that you have to go up from Sandy Lane before the reservoir. However, new high metal gates have been installed so I climbed a lowish wall and the summit is at the far end of the open ground. It looks like they may be about to install a fence to link the gates so this may not be possible soon. | clivevilla | 18/03/2024 |
Up from toilets, over gate and to top, down grassy area then out near boundary signs. | Adrian | 26/12/2023 |
Halfdecent | 08/12/2023 | |
Easy parking on Shawclough Road, close to junction with A671 - Through wooden pedestrian gate at SD 88291 15924, up path through wood & then left below wall towards high point. Unfortunately, access is blocked by a locked 2m high steel-meshed gate & a high wire fence topped with bw - Dropped down alongside fence for about 30m, through a wide gap between fence & bw & up alongside fence to summit by garden wall. Descended E. on path to Gandy Lane, but again locked gate & fencing. However, some of fencing has been cut so probably the best ascent route. | gerrybowes | 11/11/2023 |
Got there accidentally when looking for another footpath! RV | joed293 | 11/03/2023 |
Rossendale Round bagging hills and Marilyns, with drifting snow on the Moors. | PhilipChaston | 11/03/2023 |
1 of 3 on 5.8 mile hike. Parked near school in tonacliffe and made way down track across road and into small car park. There was a little cutting to the right which zigzagged it’s way to summit. Onto rushy hill | The-Z-Man | 06/05/2022 |
Parked in lay-by on main road, up lane to church and then through gate opposite. This led to open land at back of houses and HP. Came back down path to gate by toilets to NW. this maybe the better way to ascend as there were no private signs. | PeterD | 24/03/2022 |
Nice little 860m circular. Up through the wooden gate by the (closed) toilets, down to the church, then back along the road. Very straightforward, good path all the way. My 1100th tump. | malcorbett | 09/06/2021 |
Only practical access is via the grassy slope on the NE side. All quiet on a Sunday evening but the area has the feel of a 'forest school' about it. Definite high point on garden fence line. | RichardM | 11/04/2021 |
Denise | 11/04/2021 | |
andy63 | 06/03/2021 | |
From Watergrove Reservoir: Brown Wardle Hill, Rushy Hill, Gandy Brow. Lovely sunny July afternoon. Faint little used paths. Lots of semi-wild ponies with foals and cows with calves. Lovely local walk. | Lazylizzie | 12/07/2020 |
Paganknight73 | 08/08/2019 | |
Ample kerbside parking at SD88301 15913. Thru gate and followed path up thru pleasant woodland then turned left along wall to the summit. Good views of the South Pennines.With Lucky | John Eley | 06/08/2019 |
PM | 13/04/2019 | |
Plentiful roadside parking to the north of the hill. Enter through a fieldgate and follow the track up to the wall. Turn left to follow the wall to the summit. The spot height is in a private garden but, looking over the wall, this appears to have been lowered for building purposed. Summit appears now to be on the access side of the wall, a raised tree stump. | moorsman | 07/03/2019 |
Great advice from Aye Jimmy. (Rochdale Tumps completed). | David Evans | 18/02/2019 |
jimbloomer | 08/01/2019 | |
Parked in Christ’s Church private car park. Didn’t think He’d mind for the few minutes there and back. Fp starts opposite cp entrance. | Campbell Singer | 02/09/2018 |
Another darkness tump by torch light before heading home | vegibagger | 08/01/2018 |
Longwojo | 26/11/2017 | |
Parked by toilets at junction of A671 and Shawclough Drive.Through gate into wood and up relatively gentle path on right to top.With Oscar. | catman | 25/08/2017 |
With Catman. | oscarrosie | 25/08/2017 |
The gate off the B6377 to NWN is at SD883159. Thru' wood to wall ahead and left on good path. | carole engel | 05/08/2017 |
GaryJones | 09/02/2017 | |
2nd hill of 7 today on a route from Rochdale to Littleborough, climbing the urban summit of Bagslate moor linking fp's up in a NE direction passing Shawfield, Fern Hill & a beautiful track passing through Healey Dell then straight up to the top path through the woodland and out onto the summit by the wall. Descent onto A671 onto linking fp to Pennine B'way,next hill is Rushy Hill. | Dazingdale | 08/01/2017 |
Via little path near church, with Mel. | Wycombe Wanderer | 11/09/2016 |
Mark Sims | 28/04/2016 | |
andrew brown | 14/10/2015 | |
Last hill on a breezy yomp from Todmorden to Rochdale via Tooter Hill, Freeholds Top and Brown Wardle Hill among others. Short climb up through the woods from the Shawclough Road. | Jake994 | 14/03/2015 |
RobertP | 08/03/2015 | |
A 9 mile walk around the TuMPs surrounding the village of Wardle. 
Rushy Hill (3); Ratcliffe Hill (2); Birch Hill (2); & Gandy Brow (2) + a visit to the trig point on East Hill at SD91881758 | joseph mitchell | 27/02/2015 |
ngthack | 21/12/2014 | |
From ESE, path from church car park. OS trig (buried block) should be nearby but I made no attempt to find it. | RHW | 02/11/2014 |
Good path from parking near church to SE | GordonAdshead | 11/10/2014 |
From Shawclough Road junction with main road | Bramley | 11/07/2014 |
Parked in lay-by on the A671 then easily found the path to the summit near the wall and tree stump. | Dugswell2 | 10/07/2014 |
Large layby on A671 to E of hill SD 8853.1590 near Healey church. Gandy Lane for 80m to 'Private car park for church' sign; opposite this track leads past railed-off compound containing mast. Keep R along grassy edge to wall and tree stump at top. | Aye Jimmy | 06/07/2014 |
Alan Caine | 24/05/2014 | |
Parking on Shawclough Rd, Broadley at SD 88245 15917. Go through gate and follow path up to wall - turn left and keep beside wall (still on path) to highest point beside wall and tree stump at SD 88347 15832. Spot height is actually in garden but thankfully is obviously lower. | David Gradwell | 04/05/2014 |
George Gradwell | 04/05/2014 | |
Edwin Gradwell | 04/05/2014 | |
Martin R | 31/12/1999 |