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| Name: | Bigland Barrow |
| Hill number: | 2703 |
| Height: | 193m / 633ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2671 Gummer's How |
| RHB Section: | 34D: Southern Cumbria |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Lake District - Far Eastern Fells |
| County/UA: | Westmorland and Furness |
| Catchment: | Leven (Ulverston) |
| Class: | Wainwright Outlying Fell (WO) |
| Grid ref: | SD 36357 83985 |
| Summit feature: | rock outcrop 7m N of tower |
| Drop: | 25m |
| Col: | 168m SD357828  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 96 97 (1:25k) OL7S |
| Observations: | ground a few metres SW is slightly lower |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 242 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| With Sue, walked from large parking bay by phone mast. Followed wet path NW to to walled stile then tried to follow path on map around Bigland Allotments (bog land) to good track and round to tower for lunch. Good views. Returned via a good track passed tarns to road, short walk to car. pleasant little round. Warm and occasional wet. | Frank | 24/03/2023 |
| yorkielad | 05/02/2023 | |
| With Margo. Walk 17 of AW's Outlying Fells. From North Top. Surprisingly tough going. Heed AW's words about when to do this walk - it was bad enough in December on a dry, cold but sunny day. The tower is just about climbable but be careful - the rungs and particularly the handrail are getting very rickety. | James McKnight | 03/12/2022 |
| Bigland Barrow (AW's Outlying Fells Walk 17) visiting The North Top, The Tower, and an early diversion to bag Old Backbarrow. A round trip of 9km with 300m ascent, taking 2h 20m. | silveracorn_alan | 30/10/2022 |
| After the long Jubilee weekend and going to Woburn Safari for a wedding we had Monday Booked off. We made the decision to have a nice easy Bimble up Bigland Barrow. Lovely walk passing the tarn before getting to the WW2 tower on the summit. After eating breakfast at the top and taking in the views we made our way down to Otters Tarn for a look around the fishing lake from there we walk back down the lane to the car. On the way home we stopped in the sea view for a pint before getting supplies at ASDA and going home and watching the Last Kingdom all afternoon. | Scotty 2 Hotty | 06/06/2022 |
| Directly across rough ground from the North Top. Solo. WO Rnd2. | Dangerous Dave | 27/12/2021 |
| Bus to Newby Bridge, Old Backbarrow, Bigland Barrow N top, Bigland Barrow and down to Backbarrow for bus back to Kendal | trimarc2 | 08/12/2021 |
| Awful near AW’s ‘stile’. Arrived at first light to secure the only 1 x fully-off-tarmac parking at SD3675086450. Canny Hill, then BW SW (some parking here if you beat the Builder Bobs to it), OK to wall at SD3651585007, after which ground trails and map do not correspond. AW’s ‘stile’ is hard to find – it’s a through-stane type, hidden under dense trees, near to a tilted rock slab on the enclosure side. Two yellow-topped waymarker poles utterly useless as only visible once you’re at them. Good FP to Bigland Barrow and to pt 182, but both deteriorate into a myriad of faint tracks in tough veg in the depression between them where people fan out looking for AW’s stile. From pt 182 a thin FP descends NNE to a collapse in wall, into trees and access to stile on PFP. Couldn’t be bothered with Old Buckbarrow after that. | Isbjorn | 08/10/2021 |
| Parking in the large access gate to the footpath from the road to the south of west. Obvious tower visible all the way with an opportune path to within a few metres of it. | moorsman | 15/07/2021 |
| With Jackie. From Fellfoot via Staveley in Cartmel on a busy Sunday. Quiet everywhere - saw only 4 people in over 6 miles | climbingkershaw | 16/05/2021 |
| Large bull and calves of belted Galloways weren’t my favourite sight strewn across the final path but avoided them. Wonderfully weird top. Great views. Also went to the trig above Bigland Tarn. With GFE on a sunny Sunday afternoon | Fionalevey | 02/05/2021 |
| Old backbarrow, highland barrow, grassgarth heights, Barnsley hill | philz008 | 19/03/2021 |
| Circular walk in in the footsteps of Wainwright | RowanP | 09/11/2020 |
| Parked at Angler's Arms and walked up passed Bigland Tarn, bagged Trig point then circular 9 mile walk over Bigland Barrow. | ScaSey | 10/09/2020 |
| With Carol. From the south (parking opposite the entrance to Bigland Hall). Easy track. Overcast and cloudy - touch of drizzle. Structure at summit has seen better days! | DABT | 05/09/2020 |
| From the small mast described in previous posts. Nice views from the WW2 tower on a clear and sunny day. | Lazylizzie | 02/08/2020 |
| Walked from Phone mast to walled stile then made way to top, No obvious path.Looks far easier from Bigland Hall entrance along very good track | Havenchris | 12/07/2020 |
| Parked at east entrance to Bigland Hall. Easy tracks and path. | PGCE | 17/06/2020 |
| With Tim747, Shutterlag and Johnny B. Roadside parking by Brow Edge, rights of way east and north onto access land, track and path to top. Should have done it on a nice day instead of the day before Storm Dennis! | CreakingHiker | 14/02/2020 |
| Last Outlier with JB, Tim747 and Creakinghiker. Nearly got to the top before the rain started. Then it battered down with the start of Storm Dennis. | Shutterlag | 14/02/2020 |
| Played,'spot the style' in the pouring rain ;-) | tim747 | 14/02/2020 |
| parked on A590 at Newby bridge very very boggy | colinfielding | 09/01/2020 |
| Ascent of Bigland Barrow from road (near High Gate). | raymooremanx | 15/12/2019 |
| CHAOS Club, Alan C, Alan R, Neil, Steve , Tony and Frank, | Lou | 26/10/2019 |
| Bigland Barrow solo hill. | Walkingmurphy | 17/09/2019 |
| From the right hand bend above Low Brow, where an elusive footpath descends a flight of steps, crosses a plank bridge, and joins a maze of other paths. The way becomes clear once the hill comes into view. The lookout post only becomes visible near the summit and is now distinctly rickety. I followed animal tracks to the pleasant North Top and back to Low Brow. | Nick Down1 | 05/05/2019 |
| Ascended after walking to Grassgarth Heights and Stribers Brow. Arrived in time for a heavy thunderstorm. The World War 2 lookout tower provided some shelter. | JohnW | 06/03/2019 |
| Parked in a wide field entrance (SD 3600 8333). RoW to SD 3634 8377 after which a good farm vehicle track leads off up the hill. | jonglew | 04/12/2018 |
| Today was the day to pick up a few outlying fells, parked at High Newton Reservoir and a quick out and back for Newton Fell North, then drove to Bigland Barrow, parked at the EE mast and another out and back, then onto Gummers How car park, out and back to Gummers How, then off came the bike, Ravens Barrow via road/bridleways, returned so far and into the woods for Stavley Fell walking the last 200m to the top, and back to car park on bike via forest track and road. | Chipstertrain | 26/11/2018 |
| Parked opposite entrance to Bigland Hall - easy half hour return | Crib Goch | 29/09/2018 |
| Quick out and back from Tarn How Wood | Ajm0310 | 12/09/2018 |
| 1st of three tops with Lesley. We walked from our abode in Fell Foot wood, took the ferry to Lakeside and then the Steam train to Haverthwaite, then minor lane through the village and footpath over the footbridge and under the main road to then took the lane to Low Brow edge and at the bend in a road a footpath heads Ene (thanks to a local we found it). A stile gives access past the wall and then it was fairly easy to make our way to the summit and the tower. Good views! I explored the top to the NE and got a higher reading. We continued to Bigland Barrow North top... | Dazingdale | 11/08/2018 |
| Newby Bridge - Old Backbarrow - Bigland Barrow North top - BIGLAND BARROW- Hazelrigg. Wainwright's 'Bigland Barrow' Outlying Fells walk. Second visit, 9 years on. | citygent | 08/06/2018 |
| Same as Wainwrights route. | dgresty | 11/04/2018 |
| AW’s outliers last of five on a linear walk from Gummers How carpark taking in Gummers How, Ravens barrow, Staveley fell, Newton fell north and Bigland barrow. Cars parked at either end. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 17/03/2018 |
| As well as the look out tower, there is a Cold War ROC nuclear monitoring bunker, just inside the gate at start of ascent from Bigland Hall entrance. On a small bracken covered mound. | ngthack | 13/09/2017 |
| WO 2. Cycled from Ayside to Hazelrigg with Joyce and up and back by W's return route. Lost in bog and bracken on ascent but rain stopped and good views. | BURGESS | 11/07/2017 |
| From Mast, simple up and down. | rhalstead | 14/04/2017 |
| From Newby Bridge. The descent path to Hazelrigg as described by Jesty is anything but! It was unclear higher up, and there were several patches of deep mud to wade through (they could not be avoided). | David Purchase | 05/04/2017 |
| From the Swan hotel, a quagmire of a track | bardolph | 11/03/2017 |
| Repeat after Grassgarth heights (again). Mud as deep as ever | nordicstar | 15/02/2017 |
| Out & back on good path from the SW opposite the entrance to Bigland Hall. On own. | MorecambeMonkey | 02/01/2017 |
| Second ascent | PeteF | 23/10/2016 |
| From Bigland Hall in good weather. Derelict house/barn would make a good restoration project. | Wycombe Wanderer | 04/09/2016 |
| Parked at 358842. Took the north path which can be indistinct in parts. Headed South from 364844 to the summit. Returned by south path and then to High Brow Edge. 55 min and 1.7 mile. With GB. | bolton | 19/07/2016 |
| Large parking area next to substation & mast at SD35863 84141 - Best to head S. along road for 350m & then good bracken-free paths to WWII observation point & summit. (PM) | gerrybowes | 19/07/2016 |
| From Newby Bridge | Fell_wanderer | 06/07/2016 |
| Wainwright route from newby bridge. Up canny hill to BIGLAND BARROW and BIGLAND BARROW NORTH TOP. Fine warm sunny day. Not a walk to do when wet or bracken is high. | Hill Wanderer | 10/05/2016 |
| from layby in Haverthwaithe in glorious weather | AlunRees31 | 07/03/2016 |
| Done with Richard & Stuart together with Finsthwaite Heights. Lovely views of the Lakeland Fells | falunty | 03/02/2016 |