Loading...
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

Show Map

View on: Geograph  OS Maps  Streetmap  Magic  NLS  OTM

Full screen map

Show/hide GPS File for mountains/markers shown

Show/hide GPX File for mountains shown

Photos
Hill summit photo
(where available)
Hill portrait photo
(where available)

Click on a photo link to view photo on the hillsummits website

To contribute a summit or portrait photo for a hill
please contact the hillsummits website

N.B. Some hill summits are on private property or on land where there is no public right of way.  Permission should be sought from the landowner where access to a hill summit is through private land.
Please report via the contact page any logs you see below which describe or encourage acts of trespass.  Please quote the hill number and hill name.

Logged Descriptions  (logged by 36 users)ByDate 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 triptrimarc208/02/2024
As summitter.clivevilla10/01/2024
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.summitter07/10/2023
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!moorsman13/07/2023
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.moorsman05/08/2022
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 Pearson25/03/2022
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 Anchovy15/08/2019
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.jonglew06/07/2018
Shapely summit but surrounded by too much green desert for my liking.Wycombe Wanderer03/01/2018
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.Moorponder07/04/2017
With round of fisher Tarn Reservoirbriandiggle12/02/2017
Wander up grassy field from SE. Low in energy, bit of an icy windvegibagger29/02/2016
Kendal circular. Out & back from the Benson Knott access land.Smudge15/01/2016
Following Jim's advice, access land and gates.nordicstar28/05/2015
From SSE. Visited the 292m summit too, agree with AJ, nice shapely summit.RHW22/03/2015
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 Jimmy25/02/2015
From west with revisit to Beson Knott which has one of the best 360 mountain views anywhere.peebs03/12/2014
Parked by access gate at SD 5579 9271. Aligned gates all the way to the summit field. Cracking views.jimbloomer24/10/2014
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.Eddie10/11/1983
Matt14/06/2023
Martin R05/01/2022
RobB16/11/2021
dickiewren29/03/2021
conanharrod23/01/2021
Rambling Ray08/10/2020
mcbiydw219/04/2018
Dusty13/02/2018
mae22/12/2016
DC11main11/11/2016
GaryJones16/07/2016
Jim B26/03/2015
Jim.Fothergill15/08/2014
Dave Geere04/05/2014
Alex C16/03/2014
nickywood111/04/2004
Nick Canuteblank