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Name: | Leap Hill |
Hill number: | 15929 |
Height: | 471m / 1545ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2302 The Cheviot |
RHB Section: | 33: The Scottish Border to the River Tyne, 28B: The River Tweed to the English Border |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | The Cheviots |
County/UA: | Scottish Borders, Northumberland |
Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Tweed, Tyne (Newcastle) |
Watershed: | Tynemouth, Tweedmouth |
Class: | Tump (400-499m) (Tu,4) |
Grid ref: | NT 72879 07024 |
Summit feature: | fence corner |
Drop: | 47m |
Col: | 424m NT734073 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 80 (1:25k) OL16W |
Observations: | cairn 40m SSW at NT 72862 06985 is lower |
Survey: | Abney level |
Comments: | On Scottish/English border. To be filed in 28B and 33 |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 48 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
From the Carter Bar layby at 69790 06814, waled to Woodplaw Edge, Leap Hill, Hungry Law and Greyhound Law with a detour to Lumsdon Law on the way back. Glorious Autumn day. 4 hours 54m 11.93 miles mostly on ATV tracks. | clivevilla | 18/10/2022 |
From layby just N of Ramshope Lodge (NT 7185 0468). Up onto Lumsdon Hill first then direct line across to here. On to Wooplaw Edge then collect bike at Carter Bar and a speedy 3.5k free-wheel back to car. | jonglew | 04/04/2022 |
Parking at Carter Bar. Followed the border fence > Wooplaw Edge. Continued along fence > Leap Hill on feint paths all the way. S through fairly rough grassland > Lumsdon Law. | JohnR | 19/04/2021 |
From Carter Bar firstly Wooplaw Edge followed the fence to this top | Andrew Simmons | 06/03/2021 |
Wooplaw Edge, Leap Hill and Lumsdon Law from Carter Bar. Started in Scotland, crossed over into England before Wooplaw Edge and kept there all the way around. Sadly the ice cream van had left the car park by the time we got back on the hottest day of the year. | summitter | 07/08/2020 |
Linear walk aided by mae and his car. | jimbloomer | 21/10/2019 |
From Carter Bar. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 20/08/2019 |
See log for Greyhound Law | carole engel | 30/07/2019 |
With Jo, from Carter Bar: followed fence to Wooplaw Edge and Leap Hill, then across moor to Lumsdon Law. On return omitted LH by contouring west of summit on a good track. Weather: cloudy, cold wind, good visibility. | amblerbob | 09/05/2018 |
From Carter Bar, out and back along the border to Lumsden Law | Moorponder | 07/07/2017 |
Ascended from Byrness along forest road to the Heart's Toe, then walked along Scottish border via Hungry Law, Leap Hill, Wooplaw Edge to Carter Bar. | lecube | 20/06/2017 |
From Carter Bar - Wooplaw Edge, Leap Hill, Hungry Law, Greyhound Law. Then back to Leap Hill, across to Lumsdon Law then walk up road to Carter Bar. | Aye Jimmy | 13/05/2016 |
From Carter Law | Alan Moore | 19/04/2016 |
Carter Bar, Carter Fell, Wooplaw Edge, Lumsdon Law, Hungry Law, Greyhound Law, Hungry Law, Leap Hill, Wooplaw Edge, Carter Bar. Wet paths for the most part except for the contour to Lumsdon Law and the heather clad top of Greyhound Law. | ijpowell | 14/04/2016 |
Border run from Carter's Bar with Goska | Mountain Goat | 25/03/2016 |
Bagged with Dusty after parking at Carter Bar. Wooplaw Edge, Leap Hill, Hungrey Law, Greyhound Law and then Ravens Knowe before heading to the Cottonshope road to walk back to collect Dusty's car from the campsite opposite this road beside the A68. | Dugswell2 | 28/09/2015 |
Parked at Carter Bar (alt 1436 ft) then followed the Scottish side of the border fence to Wooplaw Edge along a good track. You need to cross over to the English side here and continue along an intermittent, and sometimes boggy, path to the top of Leap Hill. Just over an hour return journey. | moorsman | 01/08/2015 |
On own, from Carter Bar. Carter Fell NE top, then Wooplaw Edge, Leap Hill, Hungry Law and Lumsdon Law. 10.7 miles, 2000ft ascent. Hard going on rough, boggy ground. | Crib Goch | 06/06/2014 |
Damp, sticky, boggy, misty approach to Hungry Law with added flies from Carter Bar | agentmancuso | 26/07/2010 |
OK summit & view, grassy. acw circuit from 714049 | RHW | 29/08/2004 |
Ben Rinnes | 11/04/2024 | |
Wycombe Wanderer | 12/05/2023 | |
Matt | 30/01/2023 | |
Christo1979 | 20/07/2021 | |
Adrian | 01/10/2020 | |
mazz | 01/10/2020 | |
Anton | 08/08/2020 | |
dexly | 20/07/2020 | |
Scout | 14/09/2019 | |
Berkscire874 | 23/06/2019 | |
Smog | 14/06/2019 | |
mae | 27/12/2018 | |
Gavin Theobald | 15/07/2018 | |
alanm | 06/05/2018 | |
andy elliott | 23/09/2017 | |
Dave Geere | 11/06/2016 | |
Rambling Ray | 08/06/2016 | |
Dusty | 28/09/2015 | |
silverhow | 25/08/2015 | |
chalky1953 | 31/03/2015 | |
PGCE | 19/04/2011 | |
patrick | 01/07/2006 | |
andrew.allum | 01/01/2000 | |
Colin Crawford | 20/07/1993 | |
maknipe | 14/06/1992 | |
amblemark | 07/10/1990 | |
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