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Name: | The Alps |
Hill number: | 16246 |
Height: | 163m / 535ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2668 Kirkby Moor [Lowick High Common] |
RHB Section: | 34D: Southern Cumbria |
County/UA: | Westmorland and Furness |
Catchment: | Leven (Ulverston) |
Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
Grid ref: | SD 29739 80816 |
Summit feature: | no feature |
Drop: | 57m |
Col: | 106m SD297813 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 96 97 (1:25k) OL7S |
Observations: | trig point 15m E at SD 29754 80817 is 10cm lower |
Survey: | Abney level |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 25 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
Resembles the Alps? No way. Pleasant enough. I'd say the second or even the third gate along the side road, not the first one. | Martin R | 08/01/2024 |
Trig by fence in sheep pasture accessed from road to North. Hp at trig or nearby. | Denise | 30/12/2023 |
As Denise, but not with her. | Minto | 30/12/2023 |
A wide verge before the road junction at Bowstead Gates allows parking for about half a dozen vehicles. Walk up to the road junction and turn right up the minor road. Enter the fields through either the first of second gate and there is an almost clear walk to the summit. | moorsman | 14/05/2021 |
Good parking at 2931 8100. Short walk up road to gate on right and then easy access to summit. No walls | conanharrod | 12/02/2021 |
Over the Hoad then Town Bank Hill, down NE to Newlands where interesting info about the old Furnace that used to be there. Used field with narrow entrance from this lane to access The Alps and came all the way down Nort from there, all good, gates all opened. Used lanes to get back to Flan Hill and finish down The Ghyll into Ulverston. Nice two hour short bimble. | nickywood1 | 30/03/2019 |
Tight parking by gate on road to north, then directly up through a few gates | Colin Crawford | 03/03/2019 |
Looks very slightly Alpine from certain angles to the SW - at least compared to most fells round here. Straightforward from 297813. | Wycombe Wanderer | 20/01/2019 |
Squeezed the car in off the road by a field gate (SD 2979 8136). Took a mapped farm track part of the way, then sheep pasture to the top; stone wall to be negotiated near the summit. | jonglew | 12/12/2018 |
3rd tump of 12 on a 33.6km circular route from Ulverston, climbing Flan Hill and Town End Hill then heading NE then East to descend onto a lane that drops into Newland, then over a bridge to follow embankment contours to a minor lane then over a gate to steeply ascend to a broad ridge heading North-north-West before Trig visited and nearby summit. Headed Nw along fenceline before I Could use gate and head Ene then onto a track and onto the lane,heading NE to Smithy Green but had to backtrack as the farmer said it was too overgrown. I headed for Penny Green, and High Pastures.... | Dazingdale | 01/04/2018 |
Walked up from the north after parking just passed the third of three gates close together to bag the trig and then Tump. | Dugswell2 | 18/05/2017 |
From N, parking just after bend E of Ash Plants farm. Back to bend, then gate, track, copse, field, wall, gate to trig. It's claimed the ground nearby is higher... | Aye Jimmy | 16/04/2015 |
Tight parking by track into field at SD297813. Followed track to copse then barbed wall and gate to summit. | jimbloomer | 09/01/2014 |
RHW | 10/06/2006 | |
RichardM | 30/12/2023 | |
Rambling Ray | 08/03/2023 | |
DC11main | 06/12/2019 | |
nordicstar | 24/02/2018 | |
GaryJones | 10/08/2017 | |
mae | 19/06/2017 | |
Dusty | 10/11/2016 | |
Alan Caine | 04/04/2015 | |
Dave Geere | 23/03/2015 | |
Jim.Fothergill | 09/08/2014 | |
Tony Hartry | 08/07/2007 |