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Name: | Chapelfell Top |
Hill number: | 2722 |
Height: | 700.3m / 2298ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2714 Burnhope Seat |
RHB Section: | 35A: The Northern Pennines |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | North Pennines - Eastern Fells |
County/UA: | Durham |
Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Tees, Wear |
Watershed: | Wearmouth, Tees Bay |
Class: | Hump, Simm, Hewitt, Nuttall, Submarilyn, Buxton & Lewis, Bridge, Clem (Hu,Tu,Sim,Hew,N,sMa,BL,Bg,Cm) |
Grid ref: | NY 87577 34605 |
Summit feature: | no feature: ground by ditch |
Drop: | 142.1m |
Col: | 558.1m NY 8419 3525 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 91 92 (1:25k) OL31W |
Observations: | cairn 170m N, described by the Nuttalls, at NY 87586 34778 is of similar height |
Survey: | Abney level |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 364 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
GuyF | 04/04/2722 | |
Nuttall number three of five, all round pretty unpleasant. no views, and boggy beyond belief. | simocity | 11/02/2024 |
Tom Mundell | 12/11/2023 | |
dickiewren | 11/11/2023 | |
Chapelfell top and fendrith hill from road HP. | robertphillips | 09/09/2023 |
From Swinhope Head, and combined with Westernhope Moor. 13.5 km round trip. Not peaks that are likely to be in anyone's list of favourites. Bleak peat moors, but the light ended up being nice | Rockdoctor | 20/08/2023 |
Race watching. Up and down from St. John's Chapel. Thick mist, rain, very wet underfoot! | Geoff Briggs | 23/07/2023 |
Solo, with Fendrith Hill and Westernhope Moor. Off to camp in Dufton afterwards. | dchill01 | 14/07/2023 |
nigelcmason2 | 16/04/2023 | |
Harthope Head - track to Harthope Bank Quarry - track E past grouse butts - across moor to Fendrith Hill - Chapelfell Top (very eroded and rough going on col) - Harthope Head (very groughy and wet until 650m contour). | Mark Jackson | 31/12/2022 |
Smog | 28/08/2022 | |
Nuttall walk 10.4: From parking near Weardale Ski Club: down road to Swinhope bridge, Ascent to Cockran's Cabin using wall- ChapelFell Top- Fendrith Hill, Dora's seat, over the road to Black Hill and Westernhope Moor. Fine weather, good views but lots of pathless sections. | Lazylizzie | 26/08/2022 |
From Swinhope Head first to Chapelfell top following the wall virtually all the way, easy going in this dry spell. Then back across road for similar walk to Westhope Hill. Drove round to above Coalcleugh for another easy walk to Killhope Law. | dickscroop | 10/07/2022 |
From Swinhope Head. Fendrith Hill and Chapelfell Top on one side of road followed by Westernhope Moor on the other side. Enjoyed Chewing the cud with a couple of fellow baggers near the peak of Fendrith. | Longwojo | 18/06/2022 |
jamesaitken42 | 28/05/2022 | |
David S | 10/05/2022 | |
neilmcoward | 01/05/2022 | |
I approached from Fendrith Hill and it was a tough approach. I found the ditch on the right hand side of the fence and that made the approach much easier. | morgs4mountains | 26/03/2022 |
pwithnall | 11/01/2022 | |
A W Bryan | 25/11/2021 | |
Tony S | 14/11/2021 | |
RichardG | 23/10/2021 | |
Charli Wisbey | 03/10/2021 | |
Elwyn_Summers | 03/10/2021 | |
From pt.627 (NY862350). Good veg and terrain reading skills required. Initially trackless tough toody blussock grass, after which, with luck, you’ll find and be able to follow the peaty L side of a linear ‘corridor’ through the hags | Isbjorn | 26/08/2021 |
Warm & sunny. With George. With Frendrith Hill & Westernhope Moor | KatyT | 01/07/2021 |
PDR365 | 27/06/2021 | |
tks365 | 27/06/2021 | |
belly | 05/06/2021 | |
From Swinhope Head. Fendrith Hill and Chapelfell Top on one side of road followed by Westernhope Moor and others on the other side. | matty1971b | 30/05/2021 |
oldbagger27 | 17/05/2021 | |
Solo walk from Swinhope Head. After a period of dry weather the conditions underfoot were virtually dry. Over Dora's Seat to Fendrith Hill (small cairn is higher than trig point) then onto Chapelfell Top (visited both cairns and pole) back over Swinhope Head to Westernhope Moor (knoll and trig point). Back to Swinhope Head. | Glenelg | 23/04/2021 |
With NB fromLangdon Beck to St Johns Chapel road up hill dodging peat hags to summit Chapelfell Top then along sort of track to Fendrith Hill. Return easier than ascent via down to quarry to car. | Frank | 13/04/2021 |
With FR from Langdon Beck to St Johns Chapel road up hill dodging peat hags to summit Chapelfell Top then along sort of track to Fendrith Hill. Return easier than ascent via down to quarry to car. | Bheinn | 13/04/2021 |
Came up from fendrith hill along fence line 
Very boggy and weather poor | 2510chris | 10/03/2021 |
Christo1979 | 27/02/2021 | |
P at Green Lord's Seat - Fendrith Hill - Dora's Seat - dropped N into valley to Swinhope Burn @ 460m then ascent to Chapelfell Top (both summits & S Top) - back to P via Quarry (SE End). | ger | 04/11/2020 |
Solo | Madjonny | 22/09/2020 |
From Fendrith Hill in the mist slowly unlocking a route through the peat hags. I doubt we'll be back. | milimana | 08/09/2020 |
arjh | 08/09/2020 | |
TD & C | This Dog | 01/09/2020 |
Nick Canute | 31/08/2020 | |
Jrobholland | 26/08/2020 | |
From Swinehope Head via Dora's Seat and Fendrith Hill. Good walking along the drain. | Peter_W_Mitchell | 07/08/2020 |
Walked up lane from Westgate to bridge over Swinhope Burn then followed Nuttalls route 10:4. | dgresty | 24/07/2020 |
poppiesrara | 24/07/2020 | |
After a failed attempt at Meldon Hill due to access closure drove to do Chapelfell Top and Fendrith Hill. Parked at the top of the road at Harthope Head (862350) followed fence to the summit ridge, and crossed the fence at the top corner, bits of path and could be quite a boggy route after it has been wet. From there picked up the ditch that goes along the ridge to the summit. Followed the ditch back all the way along the ridge to Frendrith Fell, a pretty easy going 1.2km but again I expect it could be very wet after damp conditions. From the summit of Fendrith Fell headed directly towards the track at Harthope Bank quarry, across much easier terrain than the ascent, picked up a line of shooting buts and an ATV track that led to the track. Then only a short distance back up the road to the car. | JulieB | 25/06/2020 |
From Harthope Head, went on to do Fendrith Hill and Three Pikes after. Peat dry from drought. | NorthernWayfarer | 29/05/2020 |
Kendall | 16/05/2020 | |
Parked at the start of the quarry track to the NW. Wet, boggy, windy, low cloud to the trig at Fendrith, then along to Chapelfell Top. Reasonable descent path down to Harthorpe Head. With Gillian | richard69 | 02/01/2020 |