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Name: | Kirkbank |
Hill number: | 16149 |
Height: | 254m / 833ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2665 Lambrigg Fell |
RHB Section: | 34D: Southern Cumbria |
County/UA: | Westmorland and Furness |
Catchment: | Kent, Catchment Boundaries, Lune |
Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
Grid ref: | SD 61141 91392 |
Summit feature: | no feature: grass |
Drop: | 34m |
Col: | 220m SD608921 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 97 (1:25k) OL19S |
Survey: | obvious summit |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 41 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
From layby on Old Scotch Road at Killington Reservoir junction. Clear sky and frozen ground which was a good job as the mire in New Park would have been knee deep when thawed. | cumbria mammoth | 15/01/2024 |
From A684 lay-by. | Sedge | 31/05/2023 |
From one of the two laybys at the top of the pass. | clivevilla | 17/05/2023 |
There are two opportune mini-laybys to the north at the start of the footpath close to spot height 218. Walk about 200m along the path and the summit hill comes into clear view. Make a bee-line across the rough fell and look for a fixed wooden gate into the open-access area. There is also a gap in the wall but this needs climbing and there is an electric fence at the other side. Far easier to scale the gate a few metres east. | moorsman | 08/05/2023 |
As others except I got bus from Kendal and river kindly dropped me at layby. There is an electric fence the other side of the wall gap thankfully switched off. Walked out to the River Lune Bridge along horrible road, to catch bus back to Kendal | trimarc2 | 09/11/2022 |
Useful parking by start of footpath then used Martin's gap in the wall to reach the rougher summit area | Colin Crawford | 09/10/2022 |
This hill is just within the boundary of the extended (2016) Yorkshire Dales NP which has acquired a chunk of Cumbria. Streams draining west off this tussocky lumpy terrain go into Lily Mere -which drains into Killington Lake (now known as an M6 service station but once the header reservoir for the now obsolete Lancaster and Kendal canal- a reflection on how modes of transport have changed ) Best to approach summit keeping close atop edge of escarpment unless tussocks are your thing in which case stay 50 metres back where you can also trip over brashings as well. Lovely warm spring day of 18 degrees! Beautiful views east over Sedbergh up Dentdale and the mighty Howgills above the quiet Lune Valley -spared both the M6 and the West Coast mainline railway- although both once considered to go through this valley. | Chris Pearson | 25/03/2022 |
From oddly named road, Scotch Jeans. Useful breach in wall at SD 61160 91452 | Martin R | 05/01/2022 |
There is room to park in a layby on the A684, where the footpath starts. Path walk to the gate in the wall in heavy rain and then a struggle through wet overgrown tussocks in the open access area to the summit. | JohnW | 25/08/2020 |
Solo from A684 lay-by, in front of brown “Western Dales” sign at SD 61461 91695. Kirkbank, Knotts & Firbank Fell. Best bit was Fox’s Pulpit. | ADT | 09/08/2020 |
have only lived near this Tump for 35 years | jef | 16/05/2020 |
3/4 Knotts, then Firbank Fell, both from parking beside the Fox's Pulpit Quaker preaching site (interesting) and then Kirkbank and Summerhouse Hill. Uninspiring hills on a drizzly day but gets them done | nickywood1 | 04/01/2020 |
Layby N side A684 (SD 6145 9171). Once in the rough pasture took a direct line to the hill top. Very windy, heavy rain and getting dark - 2 more on the schedule. | jonglew | 28/11/2018 |
After a tedious trudge across a snow covered boggy farmers field one arrives at an agreeable plot of CROW land wherein a couple of circular walks can be made. Summit can be accessed quite easily by paths through the wood,but which are not marked on the OS map. Good dog walk apart from initial farmers field. Done with Fenton. | Chris Terrey | 20/01/2018 |
Solo. Easy bag from road to North. Obvious summit. Access Land, so no trespassing! | Dangerous Dave | 22/10/2017 |
Horrendously hard going alongside wood. | ngthack | 10/10/2016 |
As per DG on warm summer's day.Lots of bracken on access land.Splendid views of Howgills. | catman | 30/06/2015 |
From small layby on A684 to north at SD 61138 91812. Used public footpath for c200m then bee-line for summit. There is a gate/wooden fence at SD 61158 91455. No need to climb wall. | David Gradwell | 17/04/2015 |
Dash out to complete this, easy from minor road to NE, layby parking and FP. | nordicstar | 08/02/2015 |
Layby and gate to N. Footpath up broad green track to gate (saves climbing wall) then left alongside forest, boggy and tussocks. Rough grass summit. | Aye Jimmy | 25/11/2014 |
Easy from layby to NE. Choice of Fence or half ruined wall to traverse before final bit. | Alan Caine | 01/11/2014 |
Rough grass. Layby on main road to NE. | RHW | 16/02/2014 |
A beeline from the double signposts on the A684 to the summit is feasible courtesy a well positioned gate in the wall below summit. Excellent parking. | jimbloomer | 10/02/2014 |
Matt | 14/06/2023 | |
David84 | 11/04/2021 | |
conanharrod | 01/02/2021 | |
PeteF | 09/08/2020 | |
DC11main | 28/01/2020 | |
Rambling Ray | 16/08/2018 | |
mae | 29/01/2017 | |
Wycombe Wanderer | 04/12/2016 | |
GaryJones | 16/07/2016 | |
Lucky | 13/06/2016 | |
maknipe | 13/06/2016 | |
dickiewren | 06/05/2016 | |
m0untain_n0mad | 26/10/2015 | |
Edwin Gradwell | 17/04/2015 | |
George Gradwell | 17/04/2015 | |
peebs | 19/01/2015 | |
GordonAdshead | 09/11/2014 | |
Dave Geere | 04/05/2014 |