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Name: | The Folly |
Hill number: | 16715 |
Height: | 235m / 771ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2807 Kinder Scout |
RHB Section: | 36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | The Peak District |
County/UA: | Derbyshire |
Catchment: | Trent |
Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
Grid ref: | SK 16817 82896 |
Summit feature: | knoll |
Drop: | 51m |
Col: | 184m SK164827 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 110 (1:25k) OL1E |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 54 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Great Ridge, Rushup Edge & Cave Dale hike | Clifford | 30/03/2023 |
Part of an 18 mile bike ride incl Bamford Moor. Manage to cycle all way to top. Nettle free. Return to Bamford via Shatton Edge, getting wet feet in a deep puddle. | steveb2006 | 26/12/2022 |
Completed on return to Hope | kjg106 | 20/04/2022 |
Accessed from road and track to E | JK | 05/04/2022 |
Parked on road and walked up track towards mast. New(ish) stock fence means that you are unable to deviate to the left so you must go round the mast enclosure to the right. Same fence guides to a gateway. (Gate off its hinges at time of visit) Return is reverse. | Meanderer | 22/01/2022 |
Wear thick kecks. A nettle-ridden summit. These ones are particularly potent, as my legs can now testify. | summitter | 30/06/2021 |
Track from the E, past radio mast. Parking for a car in gateway opposite. | PGCE | 16/04/2021 |
Verge parked by the start of the track to the mast. The view of the cement plant from the top is strangely likeable. It is like somebody's train set. | clivevilla | 24/11/2020 |
With Caleb | simon and co | 16/08/2020 |
Solitary ramble. | Chris Ellis | 20/07/2020 |
Track from east then through long grass. | Wycombe Wanderer | 20/06/2020 |
For completionists only, as it's ridiculously easy from the road and the only view on top is of a cement factory. | Altheus | 08/06/2020 |
Nettly tumulus with excellent views, accessible from East. Layby to SE of summit. Aerial lower. | Denise | 31/05/2020 |
From the E along comms mast track then field boundary to open gate and summit tumulus, top guarded by lush nettles. Good view of the cement works. | RichardM | 31/05/2020 |
Good advice by moorsman. Layby/passing place just wide enough to fit a car to the East SK173829. With Liam. | David Evans | 28/10/2019 |
Dp not go the way we did! Thru cement works past mtn rescue base into thick woodland over fence to pasture and summit. Returned via pasture to vehicle parked outside cement works. With Mart. | John Eley | 03/11/2018 |
Parked in Castleton then followed footpaths across a few field and over a small railway line. At main road jumped over barbed wire fence and steepish ascent through thorny bushes to folly at the top. Returned the same way | The-Z-Man | 24/04/2018 |
Parked to the NE by the footpaths and used one to enter field. Then up to gate then along to mast then knoll via open gate. | Dugswell2 | 07/01/2018 |
Nice quick easy bag at the end of the day. | Alan Caine | 18/08/2017 |
Parked on the verge on bend opposite hill. Over a bwf into field and then over another next to summit to be faced with an Orwellian view of Hope Cement Works at dawn. | Campbell Singer | 26/01/2017 |
The folly of Tump bagging. Started in Hope of finding a folly on The Folly. A breezy buspass day. | Martin R | 22/12/2016 |
Parked in Hope and walk south to gain track which leads to mast. Walked to the right of the mast and continued along field past summit to corner where a wooden fence allowed access to the top. Continued on by heading west through hawthorn bushes to road. | Wheelsy | 12/03/2016 |
Roadside parking possible just beyond the start of the track to the mast (alt 675 ft). Walk along to the mast then, instead of entering the scrub, walk to the right round the mast and alongside the pasture fencing.After a couple of minutes you come to just north of the summit over a wire fence. A very easy 15 minute return walk. No nettles, gorse or brambles at all!. | moorsman | 27/01/2016 |
Last hill of four today starting from Doveholes and finishing in Hope. Climbed Bee Low, Gautries Hill and Bradwell Moor also visiting Eldon Hole en-route. Took fp's to track to descend down Pin Dale and this then took me past YHA campsite and road to cement works. Climbed over gate and made my way through Hawthorn scrub (crawling through at one point). I climbed a fence at the top and onto a Nettle infested top. Waded through them for five minutes just to be sure before taking an easier route down through more mature trees (bigger spaces) before climbing over the fence aided by a tree's branch to gain the gate and track leading into Hope. I took the train back to Beeston via Sheffield and Nottingham. A great day's adventure. | Dazingdale | 19/09/2015 |
The warning is in the name as tis' folly indeed to attempt to summit in the nettle season of July - but I went armed with trekking pole / nettle basher and forged an 'elephant track' as orienteers would say. If all goes wrong the HQ of Edale Mountain Rescue Team is close at hand just below in the cement works, although my good friend Rob, despite being their chairman, had never realised there was such a major peak attracting baggers towering over their base. | Chris Pearson | 28/07/2015 |
Tumulus covered with nettles. | Adrian | 14/06/2015 |
Parked in Hope. Up Pindale road & over first gate on left. Across field & up through scrubby hawthorn. Over two low fences to tumulus. Good views if you don't look South. | ngthack | 18/12/2014 |
Good parking just off lane to E. About 150m past Arqiva mast, over new barbed wire fence ('tornado strength') into long grass. Summit under head high nettles. Couldn't find any signs of a Folly. | Aye Jimmy | 20/06/2014 |
Straightforward from East - end of lane to the comms tower,gap in quarry fence 5m from top | GordonAdshead | 02/02/2014 |
From W, scrubby pasture, sheep & horses. | RHW | 17/03/2013 |
From the Hope to Bradwell road, walked alongside the fence to the top then down through scrub to the Hope to Pindale Road. No folly, no path, no information but lots of curiosity. | Jake994 | 26/02/2005 |
Matt | 02/02/2022 | |
Paulf | 22/01/2022 | |
Barry Smith | 21/05/2021 | |
BaggerGutt | 08/04/2021 | |
holtsd | 10/10/2020 | |
Bag For Life | 20/06/2020 | |
Andy West | 07/04/2019 | |
Nick Canute | 09/02/2019 | |
Ben Rinnes | 28/01/2019 | |
mcbiydw2 | 15/09/2018 | |
andrew brown | 27/01/2018 | |
KathW | 03/12/2017 | |
Archie | 03/12/2017 | |
chalky1953 | 31/10/2017 | |
carole engel | 26/10/2017 | |
steve18566 | 22/07/2017 | |
IainT | 09/12/2016 | |
clique | 09/10/2016 | |
Mark Sims | 22/05/2016 |