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| Name: | Hare Knoll |
| Hill number: | 16765 |
| Height: | 185m / 607ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2807 Kinder Scout |
| RHB Section: | 36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines |
| County/UA: | Derbyshire |
| Catchment: | Trent |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
| Grid ref: | SK 24084 75070 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: ground near fence at field corner |
| Drop: | 46m |
| Col: | 139m SK239748  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 119 (1:25k) OL24E |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 43 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Up from road to south at summit field barbed wire nettle n Thistle barred access to gate also with extra barbed wire. So went round ask three sides. Like Fort Knox all round. Field owner clearly doesn't want visitors despite field looking unused and i Un-grazed. Went back to start as least worse option. Not easy but I got there. | vegibagger | 23/09/2023 |
| Parked near pub in Calver. ROW, then over BWF and barbed-wire-topped gate. Long vegetation to summit. Returned through woods via gate about 150m SE ridge of summit: route is no better, but is out of sight of any GOMLs. Not a bagger-friendly summit! | PGCE | 28/06/2023 |
| Highest point seems to be by large sycamore tree with low broken wall. This is between 2 wire netting fences. Grid Ref point (also visited) is a little N of the inner fence. Walked up via footpath to NE (from Derwent Bridge) then headed SW crossing tricky wire mesh fences. | steveb2006 | 25/11/2022 |
| Shame, I liked the name. After negotiating with not one, but two lines of barbed wire, with a wall of brambles and nettles in-between, you are rewarded with a field of...more brambles and nettles! Don't bother. | Altheus | 28/05/2022 |
| Looking at the map, this hill seemed a doddle. Question was, whether to approach from New Bridge or Calver along the ROW and divert to the summit. Seemed less steep from New Bridge - albeit with a knotted rope to help to the first fields. Open fields, with ruined walls. BUT, the boundaries to the SE, NE and NW are not mere bwf's but generally bwf deer fences with a bramble infil. At the S corner, where the ROW from Calver reaches the plateau, a path could be seen leading to the promised land, but a new fence, coiled bw and brambles precluded access. I followed anticlockwise to the NW side (even a gate on the NE side was forbidding) to reach the N boundary. If I could cross it, there was a gate that would lead to the top. But the boundary seemed insurmountable. Any clues for ways in - in current conditions - for an oldie, albeit bold? | henryfm | 26/02/2022 |
| 9 degrees, cool NE breeze, sunny. From New Bridge with Bag For Life. | Wycombe Wanderer | 03/04/2021 |
| An insignificant little top but actual summit stoutly defended by double bw fences. Even Campbell Singer's route- still visible on the ground - is now blocked off with new fencing over which I was not prepared to rip flesh nor clothing so had to admit defeat. | Ben Rinnes | 30/03/2021 |
| HP is in NW corner of grassy field- fiddly access. Approached from footpath to SE. Parked at Junction of A623/A625/Polly Froggat lane at grassy triangle. Cold foggy evening. | Denise | 28/12/2020 |
| The usual route starting from opposite Donkey Lane. Just before reaching the ridge we headed N crossing through short brambly band of woodland to gain field of pasture. Along field edge to summit, high point under large tree Sycamore(?). | RichardM | 28/12/2020 |
| Route as previous. Nice view towards Froggatt and Curbar. | davechaffey | 22/11/2020 |
| Parked by the pub at the end of Donkey Lane. Walked back to the main road and took the footpath opposite. This jinks to the left after 100m or so and parallels the track you have just come off with a BWF to your left. Enter the wood and follow the path to a stile over a wall. Follow the wall on your left to a weakness which enables you to enter the field alongside you. Backtrack diagonally to the trees and there are no further obstacles to the summit. 30 minutes return. | moorsman | 11/07/2020 |
| Thank you to Campbell Singer for excellent advice. Only one broken wall and one BWF. | David Evans | 31/08/2019 |
| Parked in layby at SK2443975455 then took unmarked fp to the south round the back of some houses. Then headed across pasture to a forest plantation surrounded by deer fencing. Climbed with difficulty to get in and repeated shortly after to get out. Realised then we should have just walked around it, on the fp! With Mart | John Eley | 03/11/2018 |
| Took the footpath from the south and then barbed wire and dead hedging! Virtually every fence in the Peak District has a barbed wire adornment! | DC11main | 07/07/2018 |
| Having read previous comments I decided to try an approach from the WSW. Only one decent fence to cross plus some defunct ones and a gate. Damp and grey morning. | Herbert Anchovy | 30/03/2018 |
| Cool and sunny walk after parking over the bridge to the north. Approached from footpath to NE then under fence to enter woodland then out over gate but under fence to gain summit field. | Dugswell2 | 07/01/2018 |
| Enough bwf to wreck the thickest of gloves. Did the via ferrata route from the bridge. My 4996th Tump. Means I have to take care to choose 5000 wisely. | Martin R | 06/11/2017 |
| Excessive B/W fencing for Bio Security according to GOML land owner. | carole engel | 25/10/2017 |
| As mentioned this seems like Colditz with its surrounding barbed wire fences. I got as close as I could. | Neil Haslewood | 16/07/2017 |
| Parked in Donkey Lane opposite fp. Almost immediately take some steps which fork to the left and take rough path up side of bwf and field. It then bends right and up through hawthorn wood. Then the crux with bwf and broken wall. High gates provided a stable climb over and then an easy walk up to top. Less of a problem than I had feared. | Campbell Singer | 17/12/2016 |
| From north east- barbed wire fortress | Mark Sims | 27/02/2016 |
| Came back to do this one today after being put off by the Colditz-like barbed wire the time before. Walked up the path from Calver to the point where the path crosses a wall at SK 2427 7486. About 20m further into the field I squeezed between a collapsed wall and the barbed wire above, and then about 10m back up you can just about squeeze between the wire fence and the barbed wire above. | Wheelsy | 03/10/2015 |
| Walked from Baslow, alighting from 218 bus from Bakewell a few metres south of river. Climbed Bank wood Hill and then fp into Calver continuing to cross A625 on fp that leads to open pasture;grom here i climbed 2 fences and walked along fenceline to summit. Descent was by walking other side of fence as ascent but then dropping down through brambles, hawthorn and rosehip to a double fence near a big Ash tree. Once over this another snaller barbed wire topped fence to regain fp and back to A625 and short walk to the crossroads where after a drink and date slice in Palmers cafe i took the 65 bus to Sheffield and train back to Nottingham. | Dazingdale | 29/09/2015 |
| L read her book by a barn whilst I negotiated awkward barbed wire fences and filled my socks with grass seeds vising the summit. Down below on the Derwent we had a walk out onto the 116-metre S-shaped Calver Weir, one of the earliest structures built in the Industrial Revolution, used to power the waterwheels for cotton-spinning at Calver Mill (now part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site). The artificially high water levels upstream from the weir provide a wetland habitat known as the Calver Marshes which is home to rare species such as water voles, kingfishers and dippers. | Chris Pearson | 12/07/2015 |
| Some nasty barbed wire. | Adrian | 05/07/2015 |
| Why do farmers not like walkers??? Got to within 20 meters of the summit and gave up. Wasn't going to rip my gear on barbed wire. They clearly didn't want us there. | W111KYB | 11/04/2015 |
| Parked to NE, bridge over River Derwent. F/p led up to field of cows/calves, avoiding them meant not avoiding barbed wire. Summit top corner of field, fence near trees. Other side of fence is broken wall. | Aye Jimmy | 09/09/2014 |
| Heavilly defended from 241747 , but a bit easier from gate at 242753 | GordonAdshead | 07/05/2014 |
| From SW, park in estate, FP, fiddly fence crossing. | RHW | 17/03/2013 |
| Barry Smith | 25/02/2023 | |
| Matt | 16/02/2022 | |
| BaggerGutt | 22/10/2021 | |
| Bag For Life | 03/04/2021 | |
| andrew brown | 27/01/2018 | |
| steve18566 | 22/07/2017 | |
| clique | 28/01/2017 | |
| cjo | 07/01/2017 | |
| IainT | 06/01/2017 | |
| ianwatson | 12/02/2015 | |
| ngthack | 29/12/2013 | |
| Moorponder | 05/09/2012 | |
| ianwheatley | 13/05/2012 | |
| davidpettit84 | 17/12/2011 | |
| mary.bolton | 01/08/1980 | |
| Nick Canute | blank |