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Name: | Black Combe |
Hill number: | 2646 |
Height: | 600m / 1969ft |
RHB Section: | 34D: Southern Cumbria |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Lake District - Southern Fells |
County/UA: | Cumberland |
Catchment: | Duddon, Catchment Boundaries |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Dewey, Wainwright Outlying Fell, Birkett, Synge, Fellranger, Clem, Trail 100 (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,Dew,WO,B,Sy,Fel,Cm,T100) |
Grid ref: | SD 13551 85490 |
Summit feature: | trig point in shelter |
Drop: | 361m |
Col: | 239m SD180970 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 96 (1:25k) OL6S |
Observations: | ground within 15m radius is as high; ground 60m SW at SD 13521 85439 is lower |
Survey: | Abney level |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 653 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
From Whicham Church. Lovely views but windy on top! 5 miles 1898ft elevation | nell1583 | 30/03/2024 |
As others, Ascent from Whicham Church direct to summit, easy to follow. Very Windy on the summit and claggy. Descent by same route | matty1971b | 28/03/2024 |
With the Old Guys. 
Excellent parking at Whicham Church. | HardenC | 17/03/2024 |
Ascent from Whicham Church direct to summit, easy to follow. Windy on the summit, but fine views. Descent by same route | Cumbriancyclist | 06/03/2024 |
Parked in the layby on the A595 immediately before the turning to Whicham church, although plenty of space in the community car park by the church (voluntary donation). Followed the winding track up to Black Combe and it's S Top. Hazy views but I imagine the view down the coast line from the large cairn on the S Top would be impressive. Cloudy and breezy walk. Solo | richard69 | 05/03/2024 |
Some snow on route up. Lovely sunshine for much of walk. 
With Rebekah, Delilah and Dan. | simonjallen | 10/02/2024 |
From Railiss and along the Ridge | RowanP | 02/06/2023 |
Revisit | Dave Geere | 26/05/2023 |
Simple up and down from Silecroft station via the obvious path. Excellent views all round - glad I put the effort in to get this in the bag. | Richard | 26/03/2023 |
From Whitbeck parking (SD119839), N along PFPs on E side of intake walls (no waymarkers of any kind) to Holegill, then up RoW NE, then SE, to top. Down S ridge to Seaness, then NW down non-RoW towards Whitbeck - no exit to farm, but a faint FP cuts around E side of copse to emerge at PFP sign 300m SE of phone box. | Isbjorn | 21/01/2023 |
Ran it on own | studuncan | 30/10/2022 |
From Whicham Church Black Combe, Stoupdale Head, White Combe, Black Combe South | philz008 | 21/07/2022 |
Solo | assynt_bob | 22/04/2022 |
From/to Townend Hall | LewisMat | 06/03/2022 |
An ascent of Black Combe from Beckside following AW's route to the summit, returning by the Gray Stones ridge. Bagged the following summits along the way: White Hall Knott, White Combe, Black Combe Trig, Black Combe South Top, Stoupdale Head and Gray Stones. 16km with 770m ascent in 4 hours. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 30/10/2021 |
Our plan was to park on the minor road to the north to tackle Black Combe and Whitfell from the same parking spot. We just got through the road from the west by a matter of minutes before the closed it for a few weeks to replace the cattle grid. A reasonable three mile walk in from the north, mainly on feint paths. Blustery but dry day so made use of the shelter. Found one geocache before heading back north on a modified route to make better use of paths. | Father Ted | 25/10/2021 |
With Val. Parked in lay-by near Church at Whicham. Past church yard short section of lane then good path to summit. Good weather but clouds covering summit so no view. 
(There is a car park adjacent to the church where parking is allowed with donations requested and an honesty box). | mike.hoult | 23/08/2021 |
From Whicham | The Playful Pig | 27/07/2021 |
Solo. Came up from the South Top. Walked along the broad ridge to Stoupdale Head. | Dangerous Dave | 10/07/2021 |
White Hall Knott, White Combe, Stoupdale Head, Black Combe and its South Top from Beckside. Sun, swirling cloud and an outstandingly enjoyable route for my Outlying Fells completion. | Nick Down1 | 05/07/2021 |
Silecroft station - Black Combe South Top - Black Combe - Stoupdale Head - Stoneside Hill - Great Paddy Crag - Buck Barrow - Kinmont Buck Barrow - Whitfell - Burn Moor - Bootle station. | Mark Jackson | 22/06/2021 |
From Whicham Church. Cloudy afternoon, but views below 450m. | Peter_W_Mitchell | 03/06/2021 |
I really enjoyed my walk over the Birketts in this area today. I started from the mountain road near Stoneside Hill and walked over in wonderful conditions. Breezy with white fluffy clouds and far reaching views!! | morgs4mountains | 11/05/2021 |
Cloudy no view , clear on the way up . Also went to the south top (3869) | Philposs | 27/02/2021 |
yorkielad | 04/11/2020 | |
Walk with Ali and Paul in Great Weather, fantastic views with the Isle of Man, Scotland and even Ireland viewable | Andybmogg | 26/09/2020 |
Morning walk, Black Combe, Stoupdale Crags, White Combe. From Whicham. With Steve. | Longwojo | 18/09/2020 |
Second ascent, this time from Corney Fell road, rough going until ridge is reached. Treacherous bog at Black Dub best avoided. | PeteF | 18/07/2020 |
Revisit with Alex | Dave Geere | 21/03/2020 |
From Whicham climbed Black Combe, White Combe and Stoupdale Head, returned to Whicham via Black Combe. | Walkingmurphy | 19/01/2020 |
With the dogs | DJWan | 18/01/2020 |
From Whicham church via S top | Tony J | 28/12/2019 |
Easy parking and path up from Whicham church. Cold and sunny morning, views from Cairnsmore of Carsphairn to Snowdon. | Topographer57 | 01/12/2019 |
Parked at Whicham Church, Black Coombe, Stoupdale Head, White Coombe, White Hall Knott and down via Whicham Mill and along the road to the church car park. | Chipstertrain | 01/12/2019 |
Parked at Hallthwaites. Ascent via Baystone Bank and Grace Croft to Gray Stones and Stoupdale Crags to Stoupdale Head. On to Black Combe. Return to White Combe and descent back to Baystone Bank and return to car along A595. | raymooremanx | 30/11/2019 |
From Whicham church. Cold, clear, with great views. | vuirich | 29/11/2019 |
Up and down from the church, before heading to BaggerRambles at Slaidburn. | Minto | 22/11/2019 |
From Silecroft station and back using the well-used bridle path | lecube | 21/10/2019 |
Revisit with Pete | Dave Geere | 15/10/2019 |
Took about 1 hour 30 to run from layby to summit and back. Dark when I arrived at top but still ran back down with head torch. Very enjoyable. | axoree | 10/10/2019 |
Mountain biking | winterwalker | 21/09/2019 |
3/4, from Beckside Farm. Tried to go up Horse Back but went up Anna Crag instead by mistake. Down by S ridge to start, caught in horrendous near-verticle, rocky, chest-high bracken. Sunny and warm. | Rounsfell | 19/09/2019 |
(Walkers with) Torun Mcmoran, Caitlin Powell, Dave Topliss, Sue Woodhouse, Jo nee Woodhouse? (Parking/start) Beckside - Whicham Mill - Horse Back - Black Combe - Black Combe South Top - Stoupdale Head - Beckside. | redbob | 17/08/2019 |
Climbed from Whicham on a wet morning but pretty good visibility from the summit | Gary Heath | 27/07/2019 |
From layby on A595. | Slash3 | 21/07/2019 |
With K via usual route from chapel. Summit in mist. Ascent took 1 hr 20 mins, twice as quick as our usual rate. Diet matters. | Ashley | 30/06/2019 |
From Whicham up the bridleway. | NormanW | 06/04/2019 |
From the fell road to NNE, via Stoneside Hill and Stoupdale Head, in low cloud and drizzle following wall and fence much of way. Managed to avoid swamp on way up but it got me on way back. with M&V. 
Also went on to south top. | PeterD | 28/12/2018 |
Up and down by trade route from Whicham. Very windy. | russell61 | 23/10/2018 |
Circuit from Beckside | Ajm0310 | 09/09/2018 |