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Name: | The Planting |
Hill number: | 16118 |
Height: | 298m / 978ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2665 Lambrigg Fell |
RHB Section: | 34D: Southern Cumbria |
County/UA: | Westmorland and Furness |
Catchment: | Kent |
Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
Grid ref: | SD 55612 93661 |
Summit feature: | partially vegetated outcrop |
Drop: | 44m |
Col: | 254m SD553936 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 97 (1:25k) OL7N |
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 36 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
From Benson Knott via a direct line to edge of access land. Then a wall with convenient stones available for climbing without causing any damage. Very snowy day so no view. Reversed the route back to Kendal. 11 mile round trip | trimarc2 | 08/02/2024 |
As summitter. | clivevilla | 10/01/2024 |
Parked in a reasonably generous bay on the road just SE of Wray Farm. Along roads to SW of The Crag Farm then over two gates and along fence line towards The Planting, turning N at the high point to the summit. Followed sheep trods and ATV tracks across Hay Fell to the trig and top of Benson Knott ... reasonable ground all the way. Once summited, headed NNE to pick up a ROW around Dockergarth's Plantation, then eastwards to The Slough and the Docker Lane road. Good wee circuit. | summitter | 07/10/2023 |
Decided to retry this after just failing to reach the summit and get my obligatory photo. This time parked in a layby due south on the main road. Brief walk north along the road and took first gate on left into grassy field. Diagonally upward and soon out of sight then an easy walk to the summit. Easily beats the Benson Knotts route! | moorsman | 13/07/2023 |
Route via Benson Knott definately not recommended .... but it avoided me meeting the farmer who was working around the hill. Route alongside the wall by Dockergarths Plantation very boggy and has patches of reeds to negotiate as well as several up and downs. Steep drop to crossing the small beck before the hill and difficult wall. Farmer travelled out of sight so opportunity to follow wall to top. Really not worth using this route. | moorsman | 05/08/2022 |
A hot March day 19 degrees!-shorts, t-shirt and sun hat. Up the big grassy pasture from lane to SE -gates all the way. No sheep - the grass up here is still thin after winter and had just been spread with muck to give it a boost ready for the spring arrival of the sheep and their lambs. Earlier I saw a man carrying what looked like a headless human corpse across Fisher Tarn dam. It was fully clothed with wellies and a hi viz jacket - turned out to be a dummy / scarecrow- maybe to deter herons from getting the fish perhaps or trespassers as access is all a bit vague (not CROW land) and uninvited around the tarn. I suspect the hill name really refers to the trees planted around Fisher Tarn. | Chris Pearson | 25/03/2022 |
Walked by lanes from Camping and Caravan Club campsite north of Kendal up to Laverstock Bridge. Path from there up to the twin summits of Benson Knott visiting the cairned one first and then the trig. Took direct route from Benson Knott across pasture to The Planting, again visiting both summits. Then followed lanes down to the LDNPA offices in Kendal where I was working for a few days. Just under 13km in about 2 hr 15 m. | Herbert Anchovy | 15/08/2019 |
From a field gate to SSE - just about room for a car but blocks the gate. Direct to top and back over sheep pasture. Gate at end of the mapped track, or up and over stock fencing. | jonglew | 06/07/2018 |
Shapely summit but surrounded by too much green desert for my liking. | Wycombe Wanderer | 03/01/2018 |
From Benson Knott. Wall from access land easily surmounted. Gate in the barbed wire cross-fence between the two summits gives access to the high point. Great view on a sunny afternoon. returned to access land and headed south to Fisher Tarn. | Moorponder | 07/04/2017 |
With round of fisher Tarn Reservoir | briandiggle | 12/02/2017 |
Wander up grassy field from SE. Low in energy, bit of an icy wind | vegibagger | 29/02/2016 |
Kendal circular. Out & back from the Benson Knott access land. | Smudge | 15/01/2016 |
Following Jim's advice, access land and gates. | nordicstar | 28/05/2015 |
From SSE. Visited the 292m summit too, agree with AJ, nice shapely summit. | RHW | 22/03/2015 |
From the S and gates mentioned by jb, area around last gate being very squalid at the moment. The slightly lower summit to SSW is the finer one and has views of the nearby lake too. | Aye Jimmy | 25/02/2015 |
From west with revisit to Beson Knott which has one of the best 360 mountain views anywhere. | peebs | 03/12/2014 |
Parked by access gate at SD 5579 9271. Aligned gates all the way to the summit field. Cracking views. | jimbloomer | 24/10/2014 |
First of many bad weather training runs from Kendal, over Benson Knott, The Planting, Lambrigg, Summerhouse Hill and return from new Hutton pounding the road. | Eddie | 10/11/1983 |
Matt | 14/06/2023 | |
Martin R | 05/01/2022 | |
RobB | 16/11/2021 | |
dickiewren | 29/03/2021 | |
conanharrod | 23/01/2021 | |
Rambling Ray | 08/10/2020 | |
mcbiydw2 | 19/04/2018 | |
Dusty | 13/02/2018 | |
mae | 22/12/2016 | |
DC11main | 11/11/2016 | |
GaryJones | 16/07/2016 | |
Jim B | 26/03/2015 | |
Jim.Fothergill | 15/08/2014 | |
Dave Geere | 04/05/2014 | |
Alex C | 16/03/2014 | |
nickywood1 | 11/04/2004 | |
Nick Canute | blank |