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| Name: | High Birkhow |
| Hill number: | 16289 |
| Height: | 125m / 410ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2427 Seatallan |
| RHB Section: | 34B: Lake District - Central & Western Fells |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Lake District - Western Fells |
| County/UA: | Cumberland |
| Catchment: | Irt |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
| Grid ref: | NY 14134 04339 |
| Summit feature: | small circular stone structure |
| Drop: | 57m |
| Col: | 68m NY144052  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 89 (1:25k) OL6N |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 40 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Foray from verge parking Sse of summit. Stile gives access into wood. Meandering through trees finding a line that was relatively unobstructed, a few birch and pines to clamber over and then found corner of wall but easy to negotiate then alongside crag until easy break leads to gorse then interesting round stone consruction with good views to the Screes on the other side of Wast water. I had not programmed the summit correctly so I thought I had not visited the true summit. After getting back to car i went out again this time to visit the 124m spot height where a Nordic lodge sites close to the top. Nobody around. Got back only to find that my 1st trip was the true summit. Oh Well- its a nice area anyway! | Dazingdale | 17/03/2024 |
| Dawn Oldham | 09/04/2023 | |
| Alan Caine | 11/03/2023 | |
| DC11main | 03/10/2022 | |
| After Seatallan and before walk out to Seascale to catch train. There is a lot of forestry work going on as some trees have a disease and therefore I avoided the parts of the wood where the Forestry Commission prefer we don't go until the disease is under control | trimarc2 | 23/08/2022 |
| 6 of 6 and first day of a week in the lakes. Added this one on after the higher wainwrights. Once back down to greendale followed path next to bridge | The-Z-Man | 17/08/2022 |
| Matt | 27/07/2022 | |
| Public bridleway from Greendale through pleasant woodland. Up across field towards woods. Followed edge of woods to gate. Over gate and uphill to summit. All on Access Land but somehow you feel like you are trespassing! Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 21/12/2021 |
| Tricky | 02/10/2021 | |
| Martin R | 22/09/2021 | |
| Take the path to the north of the woods and after the end gate turn left and follow the wall keeping 100m away from it along the slightly raisede ridge (the wall base can be very boggy). Where the wall turns east there is an open gate ahead giving access to the summit area. | moorsman | 11/05/2021 |
| mart0797 | 29/04/2021 | |
| Valley Bimble, from the bridleway to the NW - https://www.strava.com/activities/5182669632 | Mountain Goat | 23/04/2021 |
| conanharrod | 14/03/2021 | |
| We did this wrong. You should use the footpath beyond the wood, go outside the wood, following the wall round and you will find the hill easily. We tramped through the woodland which is interesting but traps you inside walls. | nickywood1 | 15/08/2020 |
| NW from the RoW following the forest boundary wall. No walls or fences to cross, or dwellings to approach. Lovely hill. | Moorponder | 31/12/2019 |
| benarbia_8 | 07/09/2019 | |
| From youth hostel, waiting for reception to open. Accessed woodland via roadside gate (NY 1422 0423). | jonglew | 05/04/2019 |
| Short sally off road before Wasdale hills, interesting to see what's become of the old farm | nordicstar | 27/02/2019 |
| all delightfully free of undergrowth in mixed pine and oak, easy access from lakeside path. Bonus hill after Seatallan; from road to NE. | Denise | 31/12/2018 |
| Coda to day on the high fells. Someone's been doing some fantastic work clearing rhodos but the wretched things are sprouting all over place, which must be soul-destroying. Pulled up lots of fresh shoots around the summit. Back to Wasdale YHA. | Wycombe Wanderer | 29/09/2018 |
| Rambling Ray | 05/11/2017 | |
| High Birkhow from GR: NY 14296 04278 | ronaldo333 | 27/10/2017 |
| ngthack | 09/09/2017 | |
| mae | 19/06/2017 | |
| Colin Crawford | 01/04/2017 | |
| GaryJones | 04/09/2016 | |
| Followed David G's descent route - excellent. Wall is easier to climb 5m from its corner. | jimbloomer | 16/05/2016 |
| pwatson1980 | 25/03/2016 | |
| As the farm obviously won't always be unoccupied and that approach is far from easy with the bracken and awful gorse, a better ascent of this hill is the way we came down. It also has the bonus of good verge parking at NY 14286 04264. From this spot walk back along the road for c80m to a gate on the right into the wood. Up through the wood to reach a wall. Don't climb over till you are directly east of the summit as from the south the ascent would be too steep. Once over the wall the ascent is rough but very short and there isn't much gorse. Ground c15m NW of the small circular stone structure could be as high. Circular structure is definitely not a cairn but could be made into one? As for the NE top: map evidence suggests it's lower and there is no way of Abneying between them so, unlike Aye Jimmy, we left it well alone. | David Gradwell | 27/08/2015 |
| Edwin Gradwell | 27/08/2015 | |
| Farm and holiday cottages still deserted so into yard and over gate to R. Followed top edge of wood around to near summit, up through gorse and bracken to strange circular cairn on top, as others have noted. Ground 5m W may be higher. Then discovered gorse can be avoided by continuing another 40m or so behind wall then up. Went to NE summit: crossed activities clearing in Beamhow Wood. Adventure trail with blue topped posts from NY 14178 04464, through hacked rhododendrons to crest nr NY 14242 04562 with boulder nearby. The last 25m are through densely packed trees. Left a 'smiley face' on mossy tree stump at possible summit NY 14251 04546. Higher than original summit according to GPS device, for what that's worth. Easiest approach to this area probably 50m beyond Youth Hostel entrance, gate into Netherhow Wood then tracks uphill to the aforementioned clearing passing Snighow Wood sign. Or further up the road there's another track going into the wood... | Aye Jimmy | 25/08/2015 |
| mcbiydw2 | 31/07/2015 | |
| With RHW before BG support. Parked at farm entrance, up for sale and unoccupied. Walked around ROW and then up hill through bracken and gorse above farm. Interesting circular cairn on top, now rebuilt. | nordicstar | 04/07/2015 |
| Revisit, with Rick, straightforward as farm currently unoccupied, interesting place, includes a couple of self catering cottages. Didn't visit NE summit, which is 1m lower on 1:10k map. Then to Wasdale Head for a faster than usual canter along BGR Leg 4 with Joe Williams, who did the Bob Graham in a rather sprightly 20h 51 | RHW | 04/07/2015 |
| Foolishly attempted both tops. | peebs | 07/05/2015 |
| Dave Geere | 15/03/2015 | |
| m0untain_n0mad | 12/10/2014 | |
| pwithnall | 14/09/2014 | |
| SW summit 125m on 1:10k, Gorse. NE summit 124m not visited. fiddly access from SW, close to farm, boggy; gorse avoidable. However the summit area is access land. | RHW | 13/05/2012 |