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Name:Sleights Moor
Hill number:16873
Height:297m / 974ft
Parent (Ma):2830  Urra Moor - Round Hill
RHB Section:37: The River Tees to The Wash
County/UA:North Yorkshire
Catchment:Esk (Whitby)
Class:Tump (200-299m)
(Tu,2)
Grid ref:NZ 85374 03406
Summit feature:ground on tumulus with standing stone
Drop:44m
Col:253m  NZ866020  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 94
(1:25k) OL27N
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 84 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all)ByDate of Ascent
2softsquare02/09/2023
Easy parking by cattle grid to S. Short walk along track to the prehistoric tumulus surmounted by a relatively recent boundary stone.gerrybowes04/03/2023
A quick one.summitter20/02/2023
Scenic drive over from Danby High Moor.Wycombe Wanderer17/10/2022
At the end of a hot day in Goathland with Joe and jack.cumbria mammoth23/08/2022
parked just off main road and short 2 minute walk to topmatty1971b22/08/2022
From cattle grid.Andrew Pearson20/04/2022
Short walk through heather from the road.clivevilla13/03/2022
Parked next to cattle grid.Campbell Singer28/01/2022
Next to busyroads. Still a feeling of a remote place.Barbara Singer28/01/2022
parked just off main road and short 2 minute walk to topgrumpy12/01/2022
3 of 3 on 12.75 mile walk starting in the car park in littlebeck. From stony leas across boggy marshland after the heavy rainsThe-Z-Man03/10/2021
bagged with seanjordanwalmsley198703/10/2021
Very short walk from road, car parked on verge. HP on heathery tumulus with boundary stone on top. wild moorland views. Also visited trig to N.Denise 01/08/2021
2 mins from road. Also looked at a well-defined section of the Ironstone ridge from the parking area (about 2 mins walk, too). With Petepwheeler07/06/2021
Sleights Moor > Louven Howe Aux 1 No FB > Stony Leas - Louven Howe [Louven Howe S4392] > [Ann's Cross]ronaldo33324/10/2020
Sleights Moor > Louven Howe Aux 1 No FB > Stony Leas - Louven Howe [Louven Howe S4392] > [Ann's Cross]Hippster24/10/2020
Easy top just off main Whitby to Pickering road. Marked with small stone column on obvious mound.Argentum6623/10/2019
Parked at cattle grid on Goathland Road. Thready path to the top.Moorponder22/09/2019
Easy stroll from cattle gridColin Crawford19/09/2019
Couldn't resist a revisit as I was driving past! With Alfie.Dangerous Dave21/03/2019
Park at cattle grid, short walk along track to BS on mound, ground slightly higher to side of BSCreakingHiker31/01/2019
Yes, I too thought the BS on the summit was a trig pillar from the road.carole engel26/12/2018
Sandwiched between Fylingdales Moor and Dunsley Moor on a 15 miler. Obvious top marked by a stone column on tumulus. Near the A road and regularly mistaken for a trig pillar, I would guess.mrs_ts720/10/2018
LSjohn steel31/07/2018
Parked by cattle grid followed by short walk to standing stone.Ramblingpaul08/05/2018
Final stage of Coast-To-Coast from Welbury to Robin Hoods Bay. Beautiful weather, with Chris, Fred, Phil and Gaz.mavero1007/05/2018
Parked at cattle grid due S. HP on a saucer barrow, along with a boundary stone.jonglew12/03/2018
Cool and grey from cattle grid.Dugswell227/11/2017
With Joska Dr Langen and Megan Etheridge in thin cloudvegibagger17/09/2017
In passing after Stony Leas, significantly less effort required ;-)nordicstar11/09/2017
Easy parking just along Goathland road, then jogged back to the summit.stever07/06/2017
9 mile walk from moors to Grosmont to Mallyan Spout to Goathland to moors and up to summit. Weather pouring rain to cloud to pouring rain to cloud.DanTrig14/10/2016
Parked by cattle grid, short walk to summit.One man Bucket 02/10/2016
Up from road to pleasant top.With Oscar.catman13/09/2016
With Catman.oscarrosie13/09/2016
Cold, wet evening run from cattle grid along line of boundary stones, taking in this top on the way.Herbert Anchovy27/03/2016
With Jo, circular walk from road opposite Whinstone Ridge cp (cp being used at moment for storing road materials): Sleights Moor then NW to trig, then moor and tracks eastwards to Littlebeck, then onto Fylingdales Moor, then turning south on track to Stony Leas – Louven Howe (top and 2 trigs), before returning NW along deep rutted wet track to car. Weather; sunny, mild, moderate visibility.amblerbob13/03/2016
With Clare, Eire, Evan, Sail, Danu, Coel & Alfie.Dangerous Dave25/10/2015
From cattle grid.ijpowell09/07/2015
From Cattle grid after a relaxing afternoon in Goathlandisabelle04/04/2015
Nice summit, shame it's so close to the road.Aye Jimmy01/06/2014
From cattle gridBramley12/04/2014
From cattle gridRHW09/11/2013
A short (1 minute) walk from the south after parking alongside the cattle grid.moorsman22/07/2013
Visited after day spent in Goathlandcitygent13/09/2012
Parked nearby during stroll to Stony Leas, and wandered up to the high point after that longer walk!DanHolme29/08/2012
Had just collected all exhausted Gold D of E pupils after their 4 day expedition who dozed in the minibus whilst I 'just went to have a quick look at the burial mound' for 5 mins.Chris Pearson04/04/2012
Visit logged 10 years late as had bagged this as a trig pillar.KevPalmer06/09/2010
Ben Rinnes18/12/2023