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| Name: | The Benn [Sippling Crag] |
| Hill number: | 3769 |
| Height: | 445.5m / 1462ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2396 High Raise [High White Stones] |
| RHB Section: | 34B: Lake District - Central & Western Fells |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Lake District - Central Fells |
| County/UA: | Cumberland |
| Catchment: | Derwent (Workington) |
| Class: | Tump (400-499m), Birkett, Synge (Tu,4,B,Sy) |
| Grid ref: | NY 30217 19302 |
| Summit feature: | outcrop |
| Drop: | 50.7m |
| Col: | 394.8m NY 3016 1898  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 90 (1:25k) OL4S OL5S |
| Survey: | obvious summit |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 276 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Castle Crag, Sippling Crag, Raven Crag, all in swirling mist, wind & rain. Atmospheric! | Barns150 | 30/12/2023 |
| Park in layby at 30022064. Cross the road and follow the track to the farm, go through the farm and on to the forestry road follow to 30171905, to the deer fence. Keep to the left hand side and follow a faint path through the trees and up to the top. Return the same way. | smocks and denims | 06/12/2023 |
| Deer fences get in the way from the south but shorter and obvious path from the top of the forest road to the north. View as good as that from Raven Crag. | milimana | 21/10/2023 |
| with Ollie and Lexie. Met a family from Sychtyn on the top! | Dave Sargent | 16/08/2023 |
| From A591 Rough How Bridge. 11 km, 540 m asc. Up by Shoulthwaite Farm and the forest track above Shoulthwaite Gill to The Benn. S to regain the track to Castle Crag. Down E to the dam and by the permissive path to Great How. Back by Bridge End and Smaithwaite. https://www.flickr.com/photos/samandjo/albums/72177720310334239 | SalmonJoe | 05/08/2023 |
| First day of last go at the Birketts. Light showers. Found a way up and down Castle Rock through head-high bracken. Then a pleasant walk up Castle Crag and The Benn. Joyce took the low road back to Castlerigg campsite while I walked back over 3 boggy and pathless Synges: Bleaberry Fell SE Top, Dodd Crag and Pike. Good views. | BURGESS | 02/07/2023 |
| Parked in layby to north. With Richard Tony G and Andy H from Denton house. Raining.onto Raven Crag. | Denise | 28/12/2022 |
| Bob & Duke | DukeNukem | 22/03/2022 |
| Followed brown path (pine needles) along the deer fence and onto the top. | Andrew Pearson | 20/01/2022 |
| A tour of the Synges on Raven Crag and High Rigg while developing a micro nav course for Central Yorkshire Scouts. Visited Benn, Castle Crag (Shoulthwaite), Raven Crag, Wren Crag, High Rigg (Birkett), High Rigg, and High Rigg SE Top. 16km with 1000m ascent in 6 hours. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 24/10/2021 |
| missed path on way up so scrambled up west side. Obvious path for descent. The path starts on LH side of deer fence by the wooden high gate. It isn't easy to spot but is worth lloking for as it is a good way of getting to top | trimarc2 | 12/05/2021 |
| Cycled up to the bottom of the Raven Crag steps and walked from there. | tomd4 | 26/01/2021 |
| At least the path was obvious going back down !. Not easy to spot in dark on way up | conanharrod | 06/11/2020 |
| As Dangerous Dave says. Do not cross the wooden hurdle as you will then have to climb the fence to get back out. Stay on the left side of the deer-fence until you can turn left and go to the top. The top is a delightful place above the dark trees. | Alan Moore | 14/10/2020 |
| There's a new deer fence across the usual track heading into the woods. Just followed it on the left side for a bit then picked up the faint track to this pleasant summit. With Alfie. | Dangerous Dave | 12/08/2020 |
| With Rachel | Littledave | 08/07/2020 |
| Legburthwaite > Raven Crag > Castle Crag > The Benn > Great How > Legburthwaite Just Me and H, Cold and Calm day with ground mostly frozen but actually felt quite spring like by late morning. | johnkaysleftleg | 19/01/2020 |
| 15.35 after Raven Crag up frozen track from East | vegibagger | 30/11/2019 |
| Debs & Tali, birthday walk 2, Raven Crag, Castle Crag & the Benn | Mountain Goat | 23/10/2019 |
| From Raven Crag. Returned to the col and took the faint path up through the trees from the track to the summit. Return to Thirlemere dam by an overgrown RoW north down Shoulthwaite Gill and A591 and lane. With AT. | Man of Kernow1 | 17/08/2019 |
| Part of Birkett walk DER2. With Adam Cowley | JMDobb | 26/07/2019 |
| Climbing up to Raven Crag. Steep ascent of hillside from road. After castle crag hill Fort took the forestry track to the north then narrow footpath through forest area then up the crag side to the rocky summit. | keenwalker | 18/07/2019 |
| With Ian | PeteF | 02/07/2019 |
| From south. Off forestry track heading NE then followed thready paths that linked to top. Reversed for descent before heading northwards | Moorponder | 01/04/2019 |
| From NE, road closures and FP closures made this an out and back trip taking in Castle Crag fort as well.. Along forest tracks around North of Hill all the way around to south of hill and then uphill finding tracks to top. | PeterD | 29/12/2018 |
| Revisit of Raven Crag then onto previously bypassed summits. Road over Thirlmere dam was closed so parked on verge on A591 & walked across dam. Raven Crag-Castle Crag-The Benn-Great How. On own. | MorecambeMonkey | 26/02/2018 |
| First log on here for 2018. Sweeping up some previously bypassed hills. From Thirlmere Dam. Pleasant walk up a good path. On to Castle Crag. | jonglew | 05/01/2018 |
| From Raven Crag. Pleasant meander through the trees. On to Castle Crag. | Wycombe Wanderer | 12/11/2017 |
| Great Howe,Castle Crag and The Benn in the wind and rain.Path to The Benn not obvious.From gates on track at junction with paths to Castle Crag and Raven Crag follow wide forest track for 2/300 yards North to a forest track on your right.This track terminates after 400yds appprox half way along very feint path goes north into the trees soon becomes obvious | jocks1 | 13/07/2017 |
| nice forest and ok view from top | richard cooksey | 18/03/2017 |
| SR | Frank | 27/02/2017 |
| CJ BW MJ KJ | chrisj1965 | 26/11/2016 |
| North Thirlmere Birketts from Dam Car Park | Ajm0310 | 04/10/2016 |
| 6th and last of the day. Great Wood car park on Derwentwater through to car park on NW end of Thirlmere. Solo. 5.57 miles. | bolton | 16/08/2016 |
| Free parking (5 cars) about 100m north of T-junction at 307191 - Directly opposite parking area, took path up to col - N. along track for about 100m & then path (faint in places) to summit. Continued to Raven Crag & Castle Crag. (S) | gerrybowes | 16/08/2016 |
| Up from dam cp. All Thirlmere cps are free at the moment. Quite a peaky hill for the last bit. | ngthack | 05/06/2016 |
| Thirlmere - The Benn - Castle Crag - Raven Crag - Thirlmere | Blue The Dog | 20/03/2016 |
| With Andy and Mick | BillyP | 09/02/2016 |
| With Clare, Eire, Evan, Sail, Danu, Coel & Alfie. | Dangerous Dave | 06/02/2016 |
| From the dam cp. | robertphillips | 05/12/2015 |
| RG | SimonK | 07/10/2015 |
| Solo | Aimless Rambler | 02/10/2015 |
| From the dam car park - Castle Crag, Raven Crag and The Benn. | petebagger | 04/07/2015 |
| Parked up near Thirlmere dam, straight up to The Benn, Castle Crag Fort, Raven Crag and straight back down on a beautiful sunny morning. | Chipstertrain | 23/05/2015 |
| Up from No 555 at Shoulthwaite Farm. Track nearly all the way. | Eddie | 27/03/2015 |
| Raven Crag, Castle Crag, The Benn, Low Rigg, High Rigg (all 3) Wren Crag, Great How. From Castle Crag/Raven Crag, leave forest track as it bends west downhill and follow informal path along top of ridge t a short boulder an heather climb. Leaving to head north there is an informal path along the top of the ridge which meets a forest track not shown on older OS maps near a waymark post with two red arrows. Descends west to meet the lower track shown on older maps where it zig-zags sharply. As far as I can tell the descent to the east then bends south to meet what is shown as a dead end track on older OS maps. | ijpowell | 26/03/2015 |
| Fine Spring day-Wren Crag(inexplicably missed last time up here)-Castle Crag-The Benn(grand viewpoint)-Raven Crag(revisit for me first time for Oscar)-Great How.With Oscar. | catman | 25/03/2015 |
| With Catman. | oscarrosie | 25/03/2015 |
| Climbed from Thirlmere dam along with Raven crag | robert | 17/03/2015 |
| From layby The Benn and Castle Crag up and down. | rhalstead | 29/12/2014 |