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| Name: | Kail Hill |
| Hill number: | 16414 |
| Height: | 303m / 994ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 3682 Cracoe Fell |
| RHB Section: | 35B: The Central Pennines |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Yorkshire Dales - Southern Fells |
| County/UA: | North Yorkshire |
| Catchment: | Wharfe |
| Class: | Tump (300-399m) (Tu,3) |
| Grid ref: | SE 01559 61386 |
| Summit feature: | small cairn |
| Drop: | 48m |
| Col: | 255m SE013613  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 98 (1:25k) OL2S |
| Survey: | obvious summit |
| 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 |
| Parked in Thorpe for a circuit of Elbolton, Thorpe Fell Top and Kail Hill (gates on SW side of hill). | PGCE | 16/04/2024 |
| 6 of 6: Parked at Thorpe. South along the track, then across a field and up. With Karen. | ChrisR | 21/04/2022 |
| From Thorpe, up track and then through a number of gates as others. Then back to do Elbolton. | PeterD | 29/06/2021 |
| A medley of 4 Tumps in 2 walks around Burnsall. For the second walk, I parked on the road in Thorpe, followed the cart track south towards Thorpe Fell, then through gates in walls and up the far side of the smaller Reef Knoll of Kail Hill. Retraced route to cart track, climbed wall and walked west across access land to the wood. Down to the col and then up the larger Reef Knoll of Elbolton. Grand view from the summit. Took the FP to Far Langerton and back along the quiet country to Thorpe. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 29/03/2021 |
| very windy day, near gale, but farmer gave me permission so we went up | raymondwilkes | 01/11/2020 |
| 2nd top of 8 today on a route from Grassington to Skipton, climbing Elbolton Hill then passing Elbolton Cave, steep slope to take footpath to the road then up and across at a gate to follow wall then using fp to reach open slope and sterply upto the top. Nice view of dilapidated building. Continuing to Cracoe Fell North top | Dazingdale | 29/12/2018 |
| Up through various gates from Thorpe | vegibagger | 27/09/2018 |
| Kail Hill > Elbolton from GR: SE 01296 61708 | ronaldo333 | 13/12/2017 |
| Route as Moorsman. First gate on left after small wood | trimarc2 | 23/05/2017 |
| Ample parking around the village green. Make your way up the dead-end lane and through the gate onto the track. If you take the first gate on the left you can find a route all the way to the summit without having to climb any gates or fences. | moorsman | 05/04/2017 |
| After Elbolton. | ngthack | 16/08/2016 |
| From nw, Thorpe, lane then gates. Back to start for Elbolton path | RHW | 01/04/2016 |
| Circuit with Elbolton from Thorpe. | jimbloomer | 21/03/2016 |
| Towards the end of a walk from Skipton via Crookrise and Rylstone Cross with Alan P and Ian. | JOHNS | 13/02/2016 |
| Through gate at top of Burnsall-Thorpe path,then south-east over damaged fence and steeply uphill south-west to top.Good views up and down Wharfedale.With Peter. | catman | 30/08/2014 |
| Through Thorpe village up lane, couple of gates and ascent from the back. Nice grassy summit with small cairn, a smaller brother to Elbolton Hill. | Aye Jimmy | 09/03/2014 |
| Passed small converted barn in Thorpe, follow north side of wall towards trees in a SE direction. Over broken wall and backup fence then onto summit which has a small cairn. Lovely views across to Elbolton. | Dugswell2 | 25/11/2013 |
| Up track from Thorpe, first gate on left, up field to gate then left through 2 more gates to top. | Anton | 19/11/2013 |
| David84 | 03/09/2021 | |
| Adrian | 23/10/2019 | |
| flakeyw | 19/03/2019 | |
| softsquare | 26/10/2018 | |
| Wycombe Wanderer | 15/09/2018 | |
| Lucky | 24/12/2017 | |
| maknipe | 24/12/2017 | |
| carole engel | 28/10/2017 | |
| GaryJones | 01/03/2017 | |
| Nirobi99 | 13/02/2017 | |
| Martin R | 04/01/2017 | |
| Alan Caine | 01/08/2016 | |
| Archie | 24/07/2016 | |
| KathW | 24/07/2016 | |
| peebs | 27/09/2015 | |
| Dave Geere | 27/09/2015 | |
| nylthewheel | 20/06/2015 | |
| NigelM | 19/07/2014 | |
| ajwxyzt | 02/01/2012 | |
| hughbagger | 02/10/2010 | |
| andrew.allum | 01/01/2000 | |
| David Bell | 30/12/1998 |