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Name:Sheep Hill
Hill number:16603
Height:359m / 1178ft
Parent (Ma):2816  Boulsworth Hill - Lad Law
RHB Section:36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines
County/UA:Lancashire
Catchment:Ribble
Class:Tump (300-399m)
(Tu,3)
Grid ref:SD 91673 43685
Summit feature:trig point
Drop:31m
Col:328m  SD922429  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 103
(1:25k) OL21N
Survey:Abney level
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 52 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all)ByDate of Ascent
From Black Lane Ends PH. Also included Piked Edge summit and disturbed a great grey shrike. A first time spot for me.Nick Caunt19/02/2024
As others, parked on junction to WNW & SE along RoW to path junction at SD 90952 43750 - Forked left along path to gap in wall & then up alongside wall to shooting butt - SE on path through heather to trig point. Fine viewpoint including Dales Three Peaks.gerrybowes07/02/2024
As others, parked at corner below Thick Bank. Good path upto the top. Good little hill.Andrew Pearson31/08/2022
1/6 in the area around Colne, visiting Sheep Hill, Law Hill, Colne Edge, Weets Hill, Wheathead Height, and Stang Top Moor. Parked on the verge above Moor Gate. Followed FP NE, then the wall up the north side of the access land through deep heather, and up by the cross wall and along the track to the trig. Easier descent using a good track across the southern slope of the access land, back to Cob Lane. 3.3km with 150m ascent in 55 minutes. (S)silveracorn_alan09/01/2022
excellent little run from car park above Earby HardenC02/11/2021
With Judy from road corner below Thick Bank. Found this a much more rewarding hill than I expected. We followed the SE track before heading up the wall edge, but with crutches I found the sloping ground rather hard on my ankle. On the way down (about the K in Kelbrook) the wall has been bulldozed and there is an excellent track following more grassy lines that descended comfortably back to the stile at the edge of the access land.GordonAdshead17/10/2020
Roadside parking space at Hainslack. Followed footpaths past Harwes to trig. Back over Piked Edge (355m). Solo.Dangerous Dave16/06/2020
Parked at entrance to Thick Bank. Fp through pasture and then found a feint path over Roger Moor to gap in wall. From gap turned left and followed wall line up to shooting butt and then across heather moor. Fine views.Campbell Singer18/01/2020
From footpath at 906439. Character building walk through knee-deep heather in mist and sweeping rain to the unclimbable wall then headed SW along it to a gap by a lone pine. A faint path then follows the wall and then heads to the trig. Small deer given away by their long ears. The only good thing about this walk was that I had a tail wind on the ascent. The weather forecast said dry but has been raining most of the day. Endex.Wycombe Wanderer05/01/2020
Sheep Hill from GR: SD 90685 43960ronaldo33328/12/2019
Sheep Hill from GR: SD 90685 43960Hippster28/12/2019
4 of 8 on 31.4 mile bike ride including marsden height, Walton’s monument, law hill, sheep hill, hawshaw hill, pinhaw beacon, nutter Cole hill, and colne edge. Ditched the bike at Jerusalem farm then a 20 min walk there and back to the trigThe-Z-Man26/03/2019
Parked near Thickbank to west. followed boggy track and wall lines to summit Pillarcjo12/01/2019
Beautiful spot, from Cob lane (track to Thick Bank) . Kelbrook Moor loop taken summit and trig (Ingelborough and Bowland getting greyed out, Boulsworth and Pendle dominate) onward via Harwes Farm - Black Lanes End and Pennine bridleway cutting back uphill just before the village of Kelbrook. Completed and still enough time to visit Salts Mill at Shipley .briandavies16/12/2018
Parked at the bottom of Cob Lane in Kelbrook and followed the lane up hill. We then took the right of way that went along the bottom of the access land on Roger Moor and Kelbrook Moor, which was a bogfest and highly unpleasant. We followed a rough, wet path up towards the summit but ended up bashing through the heather to get to the top, as it was more pleasant that wading through the bog. Saw 3 roe deer on the way up, which pleased by 5 year old daughter no end. In descent we found a path through the heather that headed for the wall that divides Kelbrook Moor and Roger Moor and alongside the wall is a path. We followed a path through the heather on Roger Moor but had to leave it to bash our way through the heather towards Cob Lane. We were all relieved to get back to the car. Not a hill I will be rushing back to. With JT and HT.Sprog01/04/2018
Walked from Kelbrook. Very wet underfoot.IanHHill08/02/2018
From Black Lane Ends. Parked in overflow car park. Asked at pub if it was okay. They were grateful to be asked. About an hour round trip. Very boggy.soggy feet again. Goretex works! It doesn't let water outLongwojo27/11/2017
3rd hill of 6 today on a route from Colne (after brekkie at Spoons) to Cononley climbing Colne Edge and Law Hill, taking Long lane back onto Castle road then taking fp up to Jerusalem farm then track upto Harwes Farm, giving access to the moor via a gate. I basically walked on the heather, occasionally passing deer tracks till arriving at the Trig; I also visited nearby knoll but did not get a higher reading. Still raining....Descent East then NE through woodland, carefully negotiating slippery steep slopes to arrive at footbridge over stream then steeply up slope to join Pennine Bridleway. Nice view of Sheep hill looking back. Continuing onto Hawshaw Hill....Dazingdale22/10/2017
Home Salterforth Kelbrook Cob Lane Sheep Hill Copy House Scald Bank Kelbrook Sough Spen Head Farm Salterforth Lane Coates HomeAndy Hirst21/09/2017
Solo. Parked on the A56 in Kelbrook. Through the village and up Cob Lane. Then public footpath as far as a gap the wall opposite a small lake by Kelbrook Wood. From here followed a narrow track on the E side of the wall to the top of the moor. Then turned E along an indistinct track, initially located next to an isolated section of wall, to the trig pt. Out and back 4.5 miles.ADT10/09/2017
from pub Black lane Ends to the east. 1045 DP's (double paces) approx 1.7km about a milevegibagger27/06/2017
Parking alongside the entrance gate to Thick Bank (alt 233). Path leads SE for about a kilometre across the moor to a wall. Turn left here and follow the wall upwards. After a small hollow the path leaves the wall and heads straight for the summit. 3.02 km return, 50 minutes.moorsman17/02/2017
From Law Hill. Mud, gunfire but no heavy artillery. Then steep down to path to Kelbrook and the bus 🚌.Martin R18/01/2017
With Jo, from Kelbrook. Along road to Cob Lane, then followed footpath onto moor on a lovely warm, sunny day, with good visibility. Saw some deer on the moor. Day only spoiled by the noise from the constant firing of guns taking place in the vicinity of Kelbrook Woods.amblerbob20/04/2016
Parked at Black Lane Ends. If you use the pub cp go in overflow parking area. It was too early to patronise the pub. Fp west to farm, then through heather at second copse to summit. Found track on way back, which was easier going. Fourth trig of six today. Returned under heavy fire from woods.ngthack30/03/2016
Climbed from Cowling via Pennine way, minor roads, field paths, Hawshaw Hill to Black Lane ends then. boggy field path and moorland to trigrobert07/02/2016
From Black Lane Ends. Contoured round to Harwes Farm then thin path to trigBramley25/08/2015
Kelbrook to Colne. Lots of shooting from the woods S of summit but they were either poor marksmen or after a more challenging target.Smudge19/04/2014
From Black Lane Ends.There is actually a path direct to trig from stile near Copy House but it is difficult to locate.Easy on way back.Good viewscatman06/02/2013
Bagged trig and then summit before heading for Rob Woodall's 6,000th non trig flush bracket party.Dugswell215/12/2012
9 mile South Pennines hill-bagging session from large car park on outskirts of Colne at SD 90844 40375. Lower Hill - Law Hill - Knarrs Hill - Burnt Hill - Piked Edge - Sheep Hill [Kelbrook Moor].David Gradwell15/07/2012
aka Kelbrook Moor. Trigging in the Gisburn area, after doing Weets Hill and Gisburn Moor.Aye Jimmy10/08/2008
heathery summit, nice view, especially across valley from private rd on descent. priv tarmac rd from SSE, parking just W of start RHW20/02/2005
Dusk on a damp December day. The top only just out of the cloud. Sodden under foot. Summit clad in heather.dal22/12/2004
chevyfire06/11/2020
David8424/07/2020
softsquare02/11/2019
raymondwilkes29/08/2019
Andy West21/10/2018
jimbloomer13/06/2018
GaryJones12/04/2016
Alex C27/03/2016
nylthewheel23/06/2015
PeteF22/02/2014
Edwin Gradwell15/07/2012
Alan Caine02/06/2011
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carole engel15/12/2010
hughbagger11/05/2008
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