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Name: | Great How |
Hill number: | 16190 |
Height: | 211m / 692ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2673 Holme Fell |
RHB Section: | 34D: Southern Cumbria |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Lake District - Southern Fells |
County/UA: | Westmorland and Furness |
Catchment: | Leven (Ulverston) |
Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
Grid ref: | NY 32221 02592 |
Summit feature: | large boulder on rock outcrop |
Drop: | 57m |
Col: | 154m NY322021 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 90 (1:25k) OL7N |
Observations: | cairn on outcrop 65m SW at NY 32180 02539 is 1m lower |
Survey: | Abney level |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 73 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
2nd visit. Storm Babet. 7 hrs on my feet covering 21 km linking 12 low hills (5 repeat tumps & 7 new sub-tumps) on a circuit from Knipe Fold. Took a battering from Storm Babet from the met office forecast of 'Gales or severe gales northeasterly winds, even at lower levels and stormy on the tops' munching my sandwiches on the go along the tarmac track. Gate from N into arduous deep dead bracken - between grassy bits, not far to summit but mighty tiring. Worse going down as bracken tangled itself around legs Had spied and conquered Tongue Intake Plantation a fun minor craggy top in the woods to NE thinking it may be P20+ but saw it was connected to Great How by a tongue (hence its name ) of higher land once on top. Onwards to Little Langdale -after retreating from row leading to underwater stepping stones (no OS map symbol for stepping stones!) | Chris Pearson | 20/10/2023 |
Chris Pearson 2 | 20/10/2023 | |
Hillsidenick | 25/05/2023 | |
A loop from the Tarn Hows CP, taking in Tom Heights, Black Fell, Park Fell, Great How and Holme Fell, finishing with a climb up past the waterfalls in spate. | summitter | 17/10/2022 |
A quiet, peaceful evening walk after watching HM The Queen's funeral. From Tilberthwaite to Little Langdale and back, visiting Great How and Fletcher's Wood. 11km with 300m ascent in 2.5 hours. | silveracorn_alan | 19/09/2022 |
Parking at the road junction to the SE. The road up to Stang End is as public hard surfaced road. Despite notices warning that there are no parking places along it, there are in fact a couple just before the summit. Gate due east of the hill summit gives easy access, though there is a minor boggy area to cross | moorsman | 20/05/2022 |
Dawn Oldham | 13/03/2022 | |
Parking just off A593 and then as others down the lane and over the gate. | Alan Caine | 29/11/2021 |
DARRENG | 12/09/2021 | |
Ascended this hill after Park Fell. A fine summit, although the mist came in whilst on top. | JohnW | 17/03/2020 |
amblemark | 23/02/2020 | |
Walked up from Skelwith Bridge with L past waterfall. Great views considering quite low. | stever | 20/02/2020 |
conanharrod | 06/02/2020 | |
Revisit with Pete | Dave Geere | 05/01/2020 |
pedro1 | 05/01/2020 | |
5/6 From Pelter Bridge, Lanty Scar and Fox How, both on Loughrigg East Slopes, then Little Loughrigg, over to Cumbria Way to Park Fell, then back via Cumbria Way to Great How and Fletchers Wood, back via Loughrigg Terrace to Rydal. Nice winter walk, quite a bit of climbing, bit pooped! | nickywood1 | 29/12/2019 |
From Coniston with Debs & Tali. Circuit to get the 2 local Wainwrights (Black Fell & Holme Fell) and anything else enroute. Via Skelwith Bridge for munchies then found a café at Elterwater Park farm we need to check out sometime. | Mountain Goat | 03/11/2019 |
From swamp city RoW on W side. High-fenced walls are a problem but a green track starts into the open country from a gate reached by branching off SE from RoW at NY3199002755, then minor trods zig zap up through bracken. | Isbjorn | 14/10/2019 |
From high point on lane to east. Excessively wet underfoot after weeks of high rainfall. Clambered through deep, midge-infested bracken (on the wane but still not nice) and up slippery, mossy rocks until I found a path leading nicely to the summit. Easy descent on path. | Wycombe Wanderer | 06/10/2019 |
From gate at roadside to NE. | PeteF | 30/03/2019 |
David84 | 27/01/2019 | |
Lucky | 24/01/2019 | |
maknipe | 24/01/2019 | |
Black Fell, Tom Heights, Holme Fell, Great How, Fletcher's Wood | keithouk | 06/01/2019 |
DC11main | 26/11/2018 | |
AlanD | 16/08/2018 | |
From NY 3293 0224, room for a few cars around this rd junc. Field gate NY 3240 0266, then track through deep bracken to top. | jonglew | 02/08/2018 |
williamglew | 02/08/2018 | |
Very overgrown. Pretty unpleasant after a wet night. Great How, Pike of Blisco, Great Knott, Crinkle Crags (all tops), Shelter Crags (both tops), Cold Pike (all tops). 34km running and fast hiking from Yewfield B&B. With GFE. | Fionalevey | 02/06/2018 |
From Elterwater on my way to Hodge Close quarry | bardolph | 31/05/2018 |
robmurray | 07/05/2018 | |
Muzzinboots | 07/05/2018 | |
Low level walking due to snow, Little Langdale valley from Elterwater returning via Colwith and Skelwith waterfalls | Pootlemum | 22/03/2018 |
Circular walk from Elterwater-Fletcher's Wood-Stang End-clear and easy path through access land to Great How(a fine little tump).With Oscar. | catman | 21/02/2018 |
With Catman. | oscarrosie | 21/02/2018 |
From Holme Fell with Maz and Cad. Very wet ground (fortunately mostly frozen) to cross before the hill was reached. A Red Deer hind was a surprising sight.The exit via a gate onto Stang End track offers a much easier access to the fell. A good advert for Tumps! | Karmakarl | 07/01/2018 |
Park Fell, Black Crag and Great How from 329,022 | Crib Goch | 28/10/2017 |
Jim.Fothergill | 27/10/2017 | |
Park Fell > Great How from GR: NY 32912 02223 | ronaldo333 | 21/10/2017 |
phenderson42 | 24/06/2017 | |
A lovely little hill! With Eire, Evan, Sail, Danu, Coel & Alfie. | Dangerous Dave | 01/01/2017 |
Pleasant amble from Thurston , surprising number of paths | Denise | 29/12/2016 |
Good day out tumping on an overcast day with Tony G, McLellans, Graham B and Martin R from Thurston over Hill Fell, Black Fell, Park Fell, Great How (Little Fell). | zoob | 29/12/2016 |
NE top is the highest | RichardM | 29/12/2016 |
Martin R | 29/12/2016 | |
On a round trip from Elterwater with family on a windy day, with a diversion to this top. Pile of stones not the highest point but a a rocky outcrop a little further south. | PeterD | 24/12/2016 |
With Alf from High Cross large cairn obviously lower than several rocky outcrops and boulders. Great spot. | mick | 02/12/2016 |
Ianto&Sue | 19/11/2016 | |
GaryJones | 30/10/2016 | |
Rambling Ray | 22/10/2016 |