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| Name: | Bassenthwaite Hill |
| Hill number: | 16146 |
| Height: | 263m / 863ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2351 Binsey |
| RHB Section: | 34A: Lake District - Northern Fells |
| County/UA: | Cumberland |
| Catchment: | Derwent (Workington) |
| Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
| Grid ref: | NY 23512 33269 |
| Summit feature: | no feature |
| Drop: | 49m |
| Col: | 214m NY234340  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 89 90 (1:25k) OL4N |
| Observations: | outcrop 60m NNE at NY 23528 33332 is 20cm lower |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| Comments: | Summit height is 263.0m |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 58 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From Basenthwaite and the bridleway. Sheep pastures and woodland | maknipe | 04/08/2023 |
| Shirt half hour walk up and down from the west road. Nice view from here. | nickywood1 | 12/05/2023 |
| Approached from Bassenthwaite village and got caught in a very long and heavy shower on top. | JohnW | 11/05/2023 |
| On the RoW from Bassenthwaite village. access gate SW of the summit. | Moorponder | 26/04/2022 |
| Fantastic view of the back of Skiddaw and down Bassenthwaite | DARRENG | 11/12/2021 |
| Up from Bassenthwaite village on BW, then gate into top field. Good views. | PeterD | 02/09/2021 |
| Gentle wall up track and through summit sheep field to grassy summit | vegibagger | 19/05/2021 |
| Easy from north. Grand view of Skiddaw | Topographer57 | 29/11/2019 |
| Parked at start of bridleway to N. Good gate at corner of top field. Then back to the Inn for the RC Dinner. | GordonAdshead | 09/11/2019 |
| Closest approach without trespassing seems to be gate at NY234334 on RoW to NW. No RoW in field containing summit. Not open access area. | Isbjorn | 02/10/2019 |
| A pretty relaxed round of 6 Uldale Synges and tumps. | jenx | 04/02/2019 |
| With Jenx and Bryher from roadside parking to North. Lane then cut across to twin gates at the ‘No Path’ sign. Pleasant views | nordicstar | 04/02/2019 |
| RoW initially from the minor road to NNE. Sheep pasture. | jonglew | 13/12/2017 |
| Last fell of a longish day. Good close up view of the slopes of Skiddaw. | Wycombe Wanderer | 02/09/2017 |
| Bassenthwaite - Bassenthwaite Hill - Orthwaite Bank - couldn't find Little Cockup in the mist! - Great Cockup - Meal Fell - Little Sca Fell - Great Sca Fell - Frozen Fell - Burn Tod - Knott - Coomb Height - Little Lingy Hill - Iron Crag - High Pike - Round Knott - Carrock Fell - road. | Mark Jackson | 12/04/2017 |
| From X4 bus at Bassenthwaite, via road and bridleway, then reached summit from S, climbing locked gate at NY 23443314. continued N to rejoin bridleway out to road and on to Latrigg | AlanD | 21/01/2017 |
| Bassenthwaite Hill from GR: | ronaldo333 | 21/01/2017 |
| From ESE | jimbloomer | 13/10/2016 |
| 73 bus at Ireby turn to X4 at Bassenthwaite over Green How, Mickle Rigg, Lowthwaite Fell West Top, Latrigg and Bassenthwaite Hill (No Footpath N side must mean it cuts corner) . | Eddie | 05/08/2016 |
| From track to the north. | Susan Bidwell | 08/04/2016 |
| Parking at the start of the bridleway to the north ... alt 387ft. Path eventually cuts across the field to a gate. Through the gate and directly to the summit. A trespass, but no houses to be seen from. 0.8 miles return, 131 ft ascent. 15 mins. | moorsman | 03/03/2016 |
| Solo. Gales. Hale. Lightning! | Dangerous Dave | 20/12/2015 |
| Approached as RHW. Huge numbers of sheep everywhere. | Aye Jimmy | 08/08/2015 |
| From NNW, RoW then gate. Showery morning, nice views to bigger hills | RHW | 17/05/2015 |
| by FP from 232,338 although summit is well off the track in an adjacent field. Not access land so this one is a trespass. I made summit GR 23505,33268 | Crib Goch | 01/02/2015 |
| Used the RoW to gain hillside and easy to summit | nordicstar | 07/10/2014 |
| With Jo, walk from Park Wood. Access gained from bridleway through gate at NY 23516 33489. Weather; high clouds, mild, good visibility. Top: grassy mound (NY 23527 33333) with a small protruding rock. (Another mound SW (NY 23506 33279) appears higher, but apparently is not). Good views, especially of Binsey. | amblerbob | 10/01/2014 |
| Up the bridleway from the road | mcbiydw2 | 07/08/2013 |
| Martin R | 11/03/2024 | |
| ringo | 04/08/2023 | |
| Mark Hodgson | 07/04/2023 | |
| Minto | 31/12/2022 | |
| Marra1 | 23/04/2022 | |
| RobB | 07/03/2022 | |
| Jill Robertson | 02/03/2022 | |
| amblemark | 02/03/2022 | |
| pwithnall | 27/02/2022 | |
| trimarc2 | 09/08/2021 | |
| conanharrod | 07/03/2021 | |
| Edwin Gradwell | 17/03/2020 | |
| David Gradwell | 17/03/2020 | |
| George Gradwell | 17/03/2020 | |
| DC11main | 14/09/2019 | |
| AdyGray | 16/06/2019 | |
| Colin Crawford | 07/09/2018 | |
| andrew brown | 16/06/2018 | |
| Matt | 25/05/2018 | |
| stevent0809 | 18/05/2017 | |
| mae | 01/01/2017 | |
| Lionel Bidwell | 08/04/2016 |