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Name: | Buckbarrow |
Hill number: | 2497 |
Height: | 423m / 1388ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2427 Seatallan |
RHB Section: | 34B: Lake District - Central & Western Fells |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Lake District - Western Fells |
County/UA: | Cumberland |
Catchment: | Irt |
Class: | Wainwright, Birkett, Synge, Fellranger (W,B,Sy,Fel) |
Grid ref: | NY 13570 06125 |
Summit feature: | cairn |
Drop: | 4m |
Col: | 419m NY135061 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 89 (1:25k) OL6N 303 |
Survey: | obvious summit |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 894 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
With Christine | Keith99 | 04/11/2023 |
With Keith | christine99 | 04/11/2023 |
on the descent from seatallen | emily | 03/11/2023 |
With Janet. | GordyH | 13/09/2023 |
A repeat for my 4th Wainwright Round: Middle Fell, Seatallan, and Buckbarrow from Greendale. 9km with 770m ascent in 3h 30m. | silverwolf_alan | 25/08/2023 |
Parked at Greendale Cottages - up middle fell, round to Seatallan then back down via Buckbarrow. 5 miles 4 hours | Mozzer | 16/08/2023 |
Parked at Greendale Cottages - up middle fell, round to Seatallan then back down via Buckbarrow. 5 miles 4 hours | Sammy T | 16/08/2023 |
Climbed with Alex. Lovely sunny day. Went onto Seatallan and then Middle Fell | MrD | 06/08/2023 |
Greendale Round. Middle Fell - Seatallen - Cat Bields - Glade How - Buckbarrow. Hot. Clear. Great. | MountainTerrier | 13/05/2023 |
From Greendale. 
10.5 km, 750 m asc. 
Up N to Middle Fell and continuing N and NW down to the Greendale bog and Winscale Hows. Up Seatallan by the SW ridge and down to Cat bields and the Glade How and Buckbarrow summits. Back by Gill Beck. 
Warm and still. Coronation quiet. 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/samandjo/albums/72177720308113640 | SalmonJoe | 06/05/2023 |
From Greendale, as a fell run: Middle Fell, skirted to the N of Seatallan (boggy), Haycock, Seatallan, Buckbarrow. Some lovely running, hardly saw a soul and the weather stayed good. 15km, 2h 45 | Rockdoctor | 06/05/2023 |
Wainwright Walk 39: Spider (Seatallan, Middle Fell & Buckbarrow) | DavidHiner | 14/02/2023 |
Final wainwright of the day. Cool cairn and also on descent came across Joss Naylor rebuilt cairn to Queen Mum. Company: SC | iandesbottes | 12/02/2023 |
solo walk (with Jess). | jonsutterby71 | 08/01/2023 |
Gill Beck - Buckbarrow - Glade How - Seatallan - Middle Fell. Best views from Middle Fell so don't skip it. | squeegs | 24/09/2022 |
From Greendale to Middle Fell then down to tarn and straight up to summit. | NormanW | 29/08/2022 |
Path from opposite Gill Farm, up between wall and beck | trimarc2 | 23/08/2022 |
5 of 6 and first day of a week in the lakes. Couldn’t find the path down so a difficult descent down tongues gill in high ferns. Wainwright no. 84 | The-Z-Man | 17/08/2022 |
Walked with Dad and Jennifer. meeting Mum and Rosie at the summit. | AJScourfield | 08/08/2022 |
With AJ and Billy. | DaveT | 27/07/2022 |
With Suzanne | dc96 | 16/07/2022 |
3rd day minus the pack, left at camp. Buckbarrow, Seatallen, Haycock, Caw Fell, Middle Fell. 12.2 miles 3500ft elevation. | nell1583 | 13/07/2022 |
119 | windybilly | 27/06/2022 |
R | Richard Tait | 04/06/2022 |
Seat How, Bleatarn Hill, Illgill Head, Whin Rigg, Buckbarrow, Glade How | keithouk | 03/06/2022 |
Ascent from Wasdale (Harrow Head) | LewisMat | 09/03/2022 |
From Buckbarrow CP, Greendale. 
10 km, 740 m asc. 
Up by Gill Beck, over Buckbarrow, Glade How, Cat Bields and on to the Seatallan trig. 
Descend NE and contour SE over Winscale Hows to the P465 bog and up to Middle Fell summit. 
Descend SW and S to Greendale. 
Misty doldrums: the calm between the storms. | SalmonJoe | 30/01/2022 |
Came down from Seatallan again! Solo. Descended on grassy path to Greendale Gill then down to Greendale. W198 Rnd6. | Dangerous Dave | 21/12/2021 |
With: hb sb; From Greendale up SW ridge to summit of Middle Fell. Then NNW past Seatallan & up SSW ridge of Haycock. Across and back to Caw Fell. Returned over Seatallan & Buckbarrow, descending to SW to road. | Ian Baines | 10/10/2021 |
Quick out and back with Lucy. Cloud was at around 1,000 feet. Parked in layby at Harrow Head, walked along road to Gill Beck and followed the path from there. We never even saw Mark Richards' (“do not try to clamber up this unless you are a competent climber”) great wall of rock. | Nab Scar | 30/09/2021 |
With Pete On 3rd day of holiday. Middle Fell, Seatallen and Buckbarrow | River-Girl | 06/09/2021 |
With Mike | jd16 | 02/09/2021 |
Buckbarrow from the road below, and then on to Glade How. Good views of Wasdale. 4km with 360m ascent in 1h 30m. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 29/08/2021 |
Quick circuit from Greendale | DinoF | 22/08/2021 |
Wainwright 199. | LANGDALE | 04/08/2021 |
Quick ascent from church stile farm, looking at the isle of man lights while chuffing on a fag happy as pie | Lauralj84 | 01/08/2021 |
See Kamoot entry for full details/gpx download: 
https://www.komoot.com/tour/408260287 | outlawcatcher | 03/07/2021 |
Tom & Xiaohui | tomparkes | 01/07/2021 |
On the way to Seatallan in the mist as the path followed the tops | PhilipChaston | 11/06/2021 |
Mat, Ian Pom | Theslayer | 01/06/2021 |
On my own after staying at the Strands | Lonnies | 31/05/2021 |
Ascent with Jayne Whitaker from Harrow Head in 2hrs 05mins. | pwhitaker_1966 | 16/05/2021 |
R K | Richard Tait | 18/03/2021 |
Hike | wcroasdell | 12/10/2020 |
Neil, Zoe & Jeff. | neilblair353 | 11/10/2020 |
Via the Buckbarrow Gr 2 scramble, hardly worth it | David Bell | 16/09/2020 |
With Adam from BHMC, late walk up, wild camp near summit. Warm & dry. | alwaysinshorts | 14/09/2020 |
Middle Fell - Seatallan - Glade How - Buckbarrow. Persistant rain and little visibility | Gary Heath | 23/08/2020 |
From Greendale via Glade How. With Sancho | Anduril | 20/08/2020 |
Possibly Wainwright completion, although may have done this and a few others beforehand in my 20s unrecorded. Did a poor scramble up one of central ribs which was more heather than rock | Nick Canute | 20/07/2020 |