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| Name: | Parson's Pulpit |
| Hill number: | 3622 |
| Height: | 538m / 1765ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2788 Fountains Fell |
| RHB Section: | 35B: The Central Pennines |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Yorkshire Dales - Southern Fells |
| County/UA: | North Yorkshire |
| Catchment: | Wharfe |
| Class: | Hump, Dodd (500-599m), Dewey, Clem (Hu,Tu,5,Dew,Cm) |
| Grid ref: | SD 91838 68753 |
| Summit feature: | embedded rock c4m NW from trig point base |
| Drop: | 131m |
| Col: | 407m SD885682  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 98 (1:25k) OL2S |
| 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 191 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| As part of a loop from Malham Tarn to Arncliffe and back with Zoe and Ted. | Jim T | 18/02/2024 |
| Up ATV track from bridleway to SSE. | davidpettit84 | 03/12/2023 |
| From Street Gate | RWG | 24/06/2023 |
| A circular walk from Street Gate up the bridleway towards Arncliff Cote, then onto Clapham High Mark, across to the Parson's Pulpit, then west to the new summit for me at Height, and down to the Arncliff bridleway, then back by Middle House Farm, over Great Close Hill to Street Gate. Then a quick nip up Abbot Hills. 12.7km with 570m ascent taking 3h 40m. | silverwolf_alan | 25/12/2022 |
| As flatfield below. Checked out Great Close Scar where I did a few routes in the 60's. | Hugh Taylor | 23/09/2022 |
| From carpark south of the Tarn up bridleway to Arncliffe Cote as far as fork at SD923678. Atv track to east of top not on map. Descended NNE over stile to reach Monks Road and followed this to saddle by Great Close Hill. | Flatfield | 24/07/2022 |
| From Street Gate with C, Across from Height. Then onto to Proctor High Mark. | PeterD | 11/07/2022 |
| Route from Kilnesey to Proctor High Mark - Clapham High Mark - Height - Parsons Pulpit. Lovely walk, pathless over interesting limestone country, with great views and very quiet. Only issue being big limestone walls - with no paths its hard to plot a course to anticipate gates etc, and long stretches of solid wall! With care they are all passable though. | MrChris1980 | 04/05/2022 |
| old copings | HardenC | 03/11/2021 |
| Parking at Street Gate SD905656. BW NE to near cairn on Lee Gate High Mark then fading ATV TK NNW along W side of wall to Parson’s Pulpit. Back to LGHM cairn and E to col at SD930681, fair ATV TK SE to gate, where ESE along fence to fence/wall junction SD9339367690 where wall can be scaled to Proctor High Mark. 100 m W of top a wide ‘green lane’ descends to, and then through, Tommy High Pasture to join Mastiles Lane at a locked wooden gate at about SD938659, back along ML through Roman Camp to Street Gate. | Isbjorn | 21/09/2021 |
| On circular walk from Street Gate to SW | henryfm | 30/06/2021 |
| A circular round of Malham Moors with Chris from SD 947 655, visiting Proctor High Mark, Clapham High Mark, Parson’s Pulpit and Great Close Hill and back along Mastiles Lane. 18km with 550m ascent in 5h50m. | silveracorn_alan | 19/03/2021 |
| 3/5 From Malham Tarn, Great Close Hill, down to Middle Farm, round South of walls to get Clapham High Mark, Parson's Pulpit and Proctor High Mark, then down to Mastiles Lane and back to pick up Abbot Hills. A nice walk 5 hours total. Only one small easy wall, just directly West of the summit of Proctor High Mark. Key to that one was to walk up to the two stones balanced on each other, after Parson's Pulpit, and curve round the natural valley to find this wall. | nickywood1 | 17/10/2020 |
| From the ford across Gordale Beck. Straight forward and fast on grass road mostly. If camping at the ford by the container, a diesel starts up and runs for 30 mins every 6 hrs. On to Proctor High Mark. | Eddie | 14/10/2020 |
| Gritstone outcrop with superb views plus large cut mark and rivet and another ?rivet in concrete base. Accessed over limestone pavement. Hot and thirsty. | Denise | 25/06/2020 |
| A great summit with several OS relics and extensive views. | RichardM | 25/06/2020 |
| Sleets Gill Bridge -> Proctor High Mark -> Clapham High Mark -> Parsons Pulpit -> Cote Gill -> Sleets Gill Bridge | briandiggle | 15/06/2020 |
| Round of Clapham High Mark, Parsons Pulpit, Proctor High Mark, Great Close Hill and Abbot Hills from Street Gate. 9 miles, 3 hours 26m. A lot of the route was pathless but it is still fairly easy going. | clivevilla | 08/06/2020 |
| From the parking area used for Malham tarn, just under Nine mile in Three and half hour taking in Parsons Pulpit then onto Proctor high mark. There is wall below the last hill that needs careful climbing skills. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 24/05/2020 |
| From Arncliffe on a clear sunny day. Great viewpoint. | PGCE | 20/05/2020 |
| Roadside parking on Malham Moor Road (roughly SD 955 652). First visited Malham Moor, before setting out in a big arc to the north to bag Proctor High Mark, Clapham High Mark and Parson's Pulpit. A few awkward wall crossings where no convenient stile or gate. Joined Monk's Road from Arncliff and followed it to Middle House Farm. Then popped up the super little Great Close Hill and later Abbot's Hill, before returning along Mastiles Lane. 20km with 670m ascent in 6 hours. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 16/05/2020 |
| Walk around the tops from Street Gate. Lovely complex limestone terrain. With Rick and Bryher. | jenx | 16/06/2019 |
| With Jenx and Bryher from Malham Tarn, inc Proctor High Mark and sub-5 | nordicstar | 16/06/2019 |
| Walk around Malham | berksbantam | 17/04/2019 |
| From Street Gate: a circuit of Great Close Hill, Parson's Pulpit and Proctor High Mark. | summitsup | 11/12/2018 |
| Clagged in thin mist and too many awkward walls to get over. Cut mark and brass done on old trig base | vegibagger | 26/09/2018 |
| Walk in from Kilnsey then loop back to Hag Dyke | wychwood | 09/08/2018 |
| 5th top of 10 today on a 34.5km route from Malham to Settle climbing Abbot hills(via Malham Cove Great Close Hill, Clapham High Mark and Proctor High Mark then heading North over a wall and following it Nw then over again over High Lineseed head then direct to the summit where a couple were sitting enjoying the fantastic views. I continued W, Sw then Nw to ascend Middle House Hill, two tops @481m with limestone pavement before descending all the way to the footbridge over Cowside Beck, the perfect place to have my lunch before making my assault on Darnbrook Fell. | Dazingdale | 25/03/2018 |
| Plenty of parking available at Street Gate junction – After bagging Clapham High Mark, made way down from the alternative summit to farm gate at 917683 – Over locked gate & up to trig point base. Continued to Proctor High Mark. (PM) | gerrybowes | 30/06/2017 |
| Parked at 905656 and walked up to Clapham High Mark then continued to this top. With GB. | bolton | 30/06/2017 |
| Reached on Malhamdale Trail Challenge race from Kirkby Malham. | stever | 13/05/2017 |
| With Vic. From Street Gate. | ngthack | 23/04/2017 |
| Solo. Walked in from Street Gate, taking in Great Close Hill and Clapham High Mark on the way. Solo. There are three trig studs on three separate rocks and an OS engraving on one of them, just to be sure! | Dangerous Dave | 31/03/2017 |
| With Mora, Great Close Hill > Parsons Pulpit > Proctor High Mark, from Street Gate. | BLACKHILL | 19/02/2017 |
| from Street Gate, with K & Rosey | IanHHill | 27/11/2016 |
| With K. Long stroll. Pleasant area but no reason to visit this spot other than bagging obsessively. | Ashley | 18/09/2016 |
| Abbot Hills - Great Close Hill - Clapham High Mark - Parson's Pulpit - Proctor High Mark | ronaldo333 | 14/08/2016 |
| From road end at Mastiles Lane out by ROW to Clapham High Mark then on to Parson's Pulpit. Retraced steps then across to High Mark. Crossed wall easily at junction with fence (934677) then stroll to Proctor High Mark. Followed grass track back to Mastiles Lane then back to car. | SS | 22/05/2016 |
| Solo | Aimless Rambler | 27/03/2016 |
| Parson's Pulpit, Clapham High Mark | keithouk | 31/01/2016 |
| Gordale Bridge Gordale Scar Street Gate Gordale Bridge Clapham High Mark Parsons Pulpit Proctor High Mark Mastiles Gate Lee Gate Weets Top Gordale Bridge | Andy Hirst | 06/10/2015 |
| From Arncliffe Cote. | Alan Caine | 27/12/2014 |
| Cloudy but overall fine day around Hawkswick Clowder | davechick | 16/11/2014 |
| from Littondale caravan park. Took some finding in the mist | Thearlaichdubh | 30/10/2014 |
| Malham, Goredale Scar, Abbot Hills, Clapham High Mark, Proctor High Mark, Parson's Pulpit, Great Close Hill, Malham Tarn, Malham Cove. | ijpowell | 05/09/2014 |
| From Airton ending at Malham | Alan Moore | 15/06/2014 |
| Don't forget the summit is not the trig Point!!! | moorsman | 30/01/2014 |
| Up from Hawkswick Cote.Clouds lowered just as we reached summit so views restricted.With Oscar. | catman | 01/11/2013 |
| With Catman. | oscarrosie | 01/11/2013 |
| Thought I'd been here before but apparently not! | Smudge | 01/09/2013 |