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| Name: | Newton Fell North |
| Hill number: | 2691 |
| Height: | 237m / 778ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2671 Gummer's How |
| RHB Section: | 34D: Southern Cumbria |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Lake District - Far Eastern Fells |
| County/UA: | Westmorland and Furness |
| Catchment: | Leven (Ulverston) |
| Class: | Wainwright Outlying Fell (WO) |
| Grid ref: | SD 39515 84288 |
| Summit feature: | ground S of wall near radio mast |
| Drop: | 0m |
| Col: | 237m SD394853  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 96 97 (1:25k) OL7S |
| Observations: | highest point of fell (hill 19191 Saskills) is 35m NE of wall at SD 39525 84321 |
| Comments: | highest point of fell is hill 19191. White Stone SD390848 is also mentioned by Wainwright but is considerably lower. Note that in the latest edition of the Outlying Fells revised by Chris Jesty a new route to the summit is described |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 227 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Parked near The Height on Height Road and did a night-time clockwise circuit of Whin Brow, Newton Fell North and Saskills, returning by the road past the reservoirs. Reservoir road is now fenced to the S and the gap in the wall on the 1:25k heading up to Newton Fell N is for the blue writing so needed to be carefully crossed (there was a gate to the N of Reservoir House) | JK | 26/11/2023 |
| With Emma | simon and co | 17/09/2023 |
| Parked to east by reservoir, up good paths to summit. | cjo | 03/09/2023 |
| Parked at 39119 84011, through the mobile home park then up the fp steeply before heading up off piste towards the tops. WO is at the foot of the mast. | clivevilla | 15/04/2023 |
| With Sue from Staverley, place to park several cars on triangle junction to make a walk of it 8Km. Followed bridal ways and several vague paths and tracks for Whitestone and enclosure then Saskills and Newton Fell N. Return over better paths over fells. | Frank | 01/04/2023 |
| Over the wall from the top. | Andrew Pearson | 30/01/2023 |
| yorkielad | 20/01/2023 | |
| R on LDWA AGM walk | Richard Tait | 26/11/2022 |
| Parked in the angler's parking area by the reservoir at SD 400 839. Up the road to the gate just before the reservoir house giving entry into the access land. Simple ascent of the field to the rocky crest of Whin Brow. Dropped back down to the road, then across the dam, to pick up FP over access land to the mast at the summit of Wainwright's Newton Fell North Top and the nearby cairn at Saskills. One wall without a stile to climb over both ways - losing its top stones! 2.5km with 120m of ascent to bag all three, taking just 1 hour. | silveracorn_alan | 27/10/2022 |
| Rushed up Sakills at 6pm from the fisherman's car park in the rapidly dying grey half hour at the fag-end of a damp drippy day before proper sudden darkness. Scaled the wall and back to revisit this WO. After day 1 of 1st Aid course at Newton. Tread gently for one of the aerials is the internet connection for Field Broughton & Whiteways caravan park below (Owned by Ian -fellow LOC orienteer and whose grounds we used for first aid scenario's the next day). Ian is proud that Wainwright mentions his caravan site in his Outlying Fells guide and has this fact proudly on the site's web page. | Chris Pearson | 24/10/2022 |
| Good parking at the anglers' car park alongside the reservoir. From here a signposted path makes its way round the side of the water before heading off towards the obvious high point. One not too troublesome wall to cross before reaching the obvious contraption close to the highest point | moorsman | 18/05/2022 |
| After a lovely day at Chester xmas markets and Cheshire oaks we had a lie in and made our way to do some outlying. Bec having been ill all week had to take it easy. We parked at Whitestones Caravan site walking through the site and on to the fell. Excellte rake type path across the fell with great views of the snowy Coniston fells. Passing a tarn we made our way too the wainwright summit of Whitestones. Amazing views at the top. as Bec not 100% and with another to do we didn’t go to the true summit but will return soon. | Scotty 2 Hotty | 05/12/2021 |
| Could not detect any discernible difference in the height of the ground on either side of the wall at the comms antenna. Of climbing the wall AW wrote 'here the game is not worth the candle'. AW's BoOF is incorrect - the FP thro the caravan site IS a RoW and AW's gap in the wall on the RoW at the 4-wall junction does not exist - instead there is through-stane stile here and an adjacent low level RoW waymarker is hidden in the deep veg - a section of collapsed wall, a few metres ENE of this stile, enables access to/from the open access area. | Isbjorn | 06/10/2021 |
| Up RoW through Whitestones Caravan Park. Through gap in wall on RoW, then right along wall to junction of 4 walls. Then find way back over wall already crossed to get to open ground. This is access land, so why no stile?!? | KeithByTheC | 08/06/2021 |
| Came up from road by entrance to caravan site. Left path up heathery slopes to ridge and followed wall to small antenna. Climbed over wall and visited cairn on highest point; Saskills. Why is the website using the west side of the wall as the WO? The new edition of the Outlying Fells uses the east side and even Wainwright realised that Saskills was the summit (albeit on private land at the time). With Alfie. | Dangerous Dave | 07/06/2021 |
| Gummer's How, Birch Fell, Raven's Barrow, Whin Brow, Newton Fell North, Saskills, Staveley Fell | keithouk | 03/05/2021 |
| We parked just outside the caravan site and walked up the steep path to White Stone summit to grab a geocache. Then followed the footpath south east to the 4 x wall corner junction where there are stones to help you cross the wall. To Saskills and WOL for lunch. Carried on down to the gate by the higher reservoir to get out onto the footpath back to the road. Easy 4km round circuit. | RowanP | 02/04/2021 |
| With Carol. Parked at High Newton Reservoir. Walked to upper reservoir, turned left and followed the wall for a while before veering right and zig-zagging towards the communications dishes (a bit boggy in places). Open access with cattle and sheep. Overcast and breezy with sunny intervals. Good views. | DABT | 05/09/2020 |
| Solo from Gummer’s How car park. Staveley Fell, Saskills/Newton Fell North. | ADT | 16/08/2020 |
| Parked at high Newton reservoir. Clear sunny day. Walked up the wall to Newton Fell South Wainwright and then cairn for Saskills | Lazylizzie | 02/08/2020 |
| Pouring rain and thick bracken. Summit wall is a pig to cross | raymondwilkes | 22/07/2020 |
| Walk 14 of AW's Outlying Fells. Nice walking and views. | James McKnight | 25/06/2020 |
| Parked at reservoir. Summit and Wainwright. | PGCE | 17/06/2020 |
| Solo. Together with New Fell South (Dixon Heights). | jonesj2 | 06/02/2020 |
| Together with Newton Fell South (Dixon Heights) | outlyingfells20 | 06/02/2020 |
| Walked up from parking area near High Newton reservoir | RobB | 29/01/2020 |
| Walked up from High Newton to the reservoir instead of driving there to make it more of a walk. Followed ROW to higher reservoir then through the gate onto access land to visit both tops. On own. | MorecambeMonkey | 18/11/2019 |
| From Whitestones Caravan Park. Not recommended in the bracken season after heavy rain | climbingkershaw | 11/08/2019 |
| With Jo, revisit from Whitestone Caravan Park: Newton Fell North and Saskills. Weather; sunny, warm, good visibility. | amblerbob | 21/05/2019 |
| From Whitestone caravan park along the footpath and through the wall gap to White Stones, then along the ridge to Newton Fell North and Saskills, picking a way down through gorse and bracken. | Nick Down1 | 07/05/2019 |
| Via the footpath to open fell starting at the anglers reservoir. | Steve Clark | 02/04/2019 |
| Cartmel Fell Church Hall to Whitebarrow (Lord’s Seat) via Swallow Mire, Pool Bank, High Park Wood and Black Yews Scar. Descent to Witherslack Hall and on to Church Road, Witherslack via Yewbarrow. On to Fern Hill, Bleacrag Road, Holme Road and Back o’ the Fell Road. Climb to Dixon Heights via Tom Tarn. Descent to Low Newton via Buck Crag, on to High Newton. Ascent to High Newton Reservoir and on to Saskills (Newton Fell North). On to Staveley Plantation and ascent of Staveley Fell. Down to Astley’s Plantation and Sow How, round to Raven’s Barrow. Return to start. | raymooremanx | 17/02/2019 |
| From Ayside going past the reservoirs. Easy going. On to Saskills. | Alan Moore | 11/12/2018 |
| Today was the day to pick up a few outlying fells, parked at High Newton Reservoir and a quick out and back for Newton Fell North, then drove to Bigland Barrow, parked at the EE mast and another out and back, then onto Gummers How car park, out and back to Gummers How, then off came the bike, Ravens Barrow via road/bridleways, returned so far and into the woods for Stavley Fell walking the last 200m to the top, and back to car park on bike via forest track and road. | Chipstertrain | 26/11/2018 |
| From reservoir car park, Tump and WO. | Crib Goch | 29/09/2018 |
| From Whitestones caravan park taking in Whitestones summit as part of loop | Ajm0310 | 08/09/2018 |
| As for Saskills. Small comms station now seems to occupy Wainwright's spot. Nice views though, as long as your back is to the antennae. | jonglew | 09/07/2018 |
| Same as Wainwrights route. | dgresty | 18/04/2018 |
| From caravan site, then path to right just before wall. | catman | 13/04/2018 |
| AW’s outliers fourth of five on a linear walk from Gummers How carpark taking in Gummers How, Ravens barrow, Staveley fell, Newton fell north and Bigland barrow. Cars left at either end. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 17/03/2018 |
| A short afternoon's dawdle taking in Whin Brow and Whitstone too.even managed a doze for half an hour on the top. A beautiful surprizingly warm day forthe time o year. | Shutterlag | 02/02/2018 |
| final top parked at SD 39697 83608 and followed road up to reservoir then followed grass path through bracken to summit solo quick up and down | colinfielding | 24/10/2017 |
| First Wainwright outlier of attempt to bag them all in one go. Arrived at Ayside campsite after day's drive from Exeter and nipped up and back from there on a beautiful sunny evening with Joyce. Gorgeous views over Coniston and Kentmere fells. | BURGESS | 10/07/2017 |
| From reservoir house, Tump and WO. | rhalstead | 14/04/2017 |
| A good circular walk. | jenx | 08/12/2016 |
| Parked at junction to East of Whin Brow (nr Pt 157). Used a series of gates to gain the upper wall line and follow to summit rocks. Onward then climbing a couple of walls to descend to High Newton reservoir. Good parking here used by fishermen. Over the dam wall and good path (with one wall climb) to summits of Saskills and Newton Fell North. Back same way to reservoir then road walking out to the remaining Newton Fells off south. | nordicstar | 08/12/2016 |
| From Ravens Barrow via Simpsons Ground, not the easiest of walks | bardolph | 25/11/2016 |
| 5th outlier of the day, should've started earlier as daylight fading. Took a likely looking path through the wretched bracken on the way down the ended abruptly at the top of a precipice. Found the proper way. | Wycombe Wanderer | 04/09/2016 |
| From layby below reservoir at SD 39956 83825. Climbed wall for Outlier. Dropped back down then tackled Whin Brow. | David Gradwell | 26/02/2016 |
| We parked outside the caravan park. A steep but easy climb taking under an hour with GB. The Outlier had to be reached from over the wall. | bolton | 25/02/2016 |