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Name:High Thorn Hill
Hill number:16184
Height:214.4m / 703ft
Parent (Ma):2559  Tarn Crag (Sleddale)
RHB Section:34C: Lake District - Eastern Fells
Nuttall/Wainwright area:Lake District - Far Eastern Fells
County/UA:Westmorland and Furness
Catchment:Kent
Class:Unclassified
(Un)
Grid ref:SD 52735 98321
Summit feature:no feature: ground 25m NE of trig point
Drop:29.8m
Col:184.6m  SD 5294 9897  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 97
(1:25k) OL7N
Survey:Abney level
Comments:Tump deleted Aug 2020
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 48 users)ByDate of Ascent
Quick visit to trig from road to east.PeterD31/01/2023
Easy parking in a layby close to the start of the footpath to the east. Through a gate, alongside a building and a minute or so to the summit.moorsman05/08/2022
Glorious views up the length of Longsleddale from here, and down towards Kendal. Manchester residents have a lot to thank this hill for - as its the site of the major Watchgate Water Treatment Plant which treats the water from Haweswater before sending it on its downhill gravity fed 63 miles to Manchester through a mix of tunnels and 4 buried pipes. Haweswater is 250m above sea level, Watchgate Treatment Works 200m, and Heaton Park 100m, allowing the water-flow along the whole aqueduct to be gravity-powered (after priming) with water being dragged along uphill sections by siphon. Recently once the water was witched off and they were trained in self rescue - engineers (nicknamed aquanauts) checked the inside of the tunnel by travelling through the tunnels on a buggy. They found much repair work to do and are now planning the HARP - Haweswater Aquaduct Resilience Programme. The site is manned permanently - such is its importance.Chris Pearson20/09/2021
Lay-by then up road a little to gate and track through sheep pasture to trig and summit nearby.Dugswell212/09/2021
simple walk at dusk after a day on the fells with Andycolinfielding29/09/2020
Always feels a bit of a cheat where it's only a hundred yards or so from the car but needed the trig.Walker Dan18/01/2020
Very easy top, park at the layby between the United Utilities depots and straight up track to side of building, summit by the fence line at top rather than the trig.nickywood105/01/2020
Straightforward parking and ascent from the east.JohnW02/05/2019
Visited high point and then trig on other side of fence. Easy roadside parking at top of road. Solo.Dangerous Dave09/12/2018
Field gate to ENE. HP possibly a few metres SW from the trig pillar, or on NE side of stock fencing 20m or so from the trig. Sheep pasture both side of the fence.jonglew19/07/2018
Popped up on the way back after a walk in Longsleddale. Parked in layby between the 2 waterworks roads, over gate x2 and up to trig. Walked up other side of fence to get the high spot there (my GPS said this was the HP. 5 mins all told inc piccies.Andrew Pearson22/02/2018
High Thorn Hill from GR: SD 52873 98225ronaldo33318/02/2018
Very easy from the waterworksColin Crawford08/10/2017
from Skelsmergh. Great views of Longleddale, Kendal and the Whinfell ridgebriandiggle26/12/2016
High Thorn Hill - Solo - parked just past first entrance of water works, jumped wrong gate! Had to come back. You want the field with the building with the massive metal doors on runners. Nice view.dads24/04/2016
Here for the trigpoint. TP:UK log: Parked at water works in passing place, climbed over gate and a quick walk down the track through an open gate and up to trig. Thought I might have to climb a barbed wire fence for a moment but then I spotted the gate. Quick find for a lakes trig!thejackrustles01/04/2016
Hardest part was climbing gate from road to east.Good viewpoint,though.With Oscar.catman20/10/2015
With Catman.oscarrosie20/10/2015
From passing place to east, couple of gates to climbcitygent19/08/2015
Superb hill with great trig. Parked on old road by water works and simple stroll in fading light. Lights of Kendal shining bright below. Unfortunate barn being built nearby.nordicstar10/02/2015
Parked near United Utilities' Watchgate plant. Short walk past new construction going on. High point is in the near field, trig S5669 on other side of fence.Aye Jimmy01/02/2015
From Water Treatment Works. Summit conveniently in 1st field.jimbloomer05/12/2014
With Jo, from Watchgate Water Treatment Plant: High Thorn Hill. Weather; cloudy, warm, good visibility.amblerbob31/10/2014
Very dull. No views. No Challenge nothing. Also requires trespassing and hopping locked gates. Very much for ticking only.mcbiydw220/09/2013
Second or third visit here, specifically to make a trig top plaster cast because it had, according to tpuk a complete raised letters central plug from logs only five months before. Imagine on this day, my frustration on finding plain plastic circle insert. Decided to make a cast anyway and afterwards decided to have some fun with this to reflect my experience. So I carved in to the centre to replace the words that would have been there, 'Ordnance survey triangulation station' with instead, 'Triangulation Pillock Frustration Station' so once I pressed clay into the plaster mould to make an art work from it, this is what it would say. Delighted with the results on the two ceramics I've made so far!!vegibagger06/06/2013
Park at entrance to sewage farm. On narrow road, over a gate with barbed wire on top, stroll on grass to column 5669 at 15.10.arranc08/10/2010
Easy walk from road to the east.Alan Caine10/07/2010
Grassy field topped with a trig point (S5669)Tony Hartry27/03/2007
RHW14/11/2003
DC11main12/02/2022
conanharrod27/02/2021
holtsd12/07/2020
Jim B25/08/2018
Andy West03/08/2018
GordonAdshead07/07/2018
Rambling Ray03/06/2018
Wycombe Wanderer03/01/2018
dickiewren27/01/2017
mae22/12/2016
GaryJones25/10/2016
carole engel09/08/2016
Jacqdaw22/05/2016
Hillsidenick22/05/2016
Dave Geere11/01/2015
Jim.Fothergill15/08/2014
Sherlock26/10/2009
peebs24/02/2009
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