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Name: | Lovely Seat |
Hill number: | 2734 |
Height: | 674.8m / 2214ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2716 Great Shunner Fell |
RHB Section: | 35A: The Northern Pennines |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Yorkshire Dales - Northern Fells |
County/UA: | North Yorkshire |
Catchment: | Ouse (York) |
Class: | Hump, Simm, Hewitt, Nuttall, Submarilyn, Buxton & Lewis, Bridge, Clem (Hu,Tu,Sim,Hew,N,sMa,BL,Bg,Cm) |
Grid ref: | SD 87905 95044 |
Summit feature: | ground 5m NE of shelter |
Drop: | 149.1m |
Col: | 525.7m SD 86824 95469 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 98 (1:25k) OL19S OL30N |
Survey: | Leica NA730/Leica 530 Survey of Lovely Seat (Final).doc |
Comments: | formerly a Marilyn |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 496 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
from cattle grid easy parking 2.8 ks 50 mins | underhill | 16/03/2024 |
Great Shunner Fell and Lovely Seat from the HP of the minor road, ground frozen quad tracks to both. | robertphillips | 25/11/2023 |
Lovely short evening walk from the cattle grid at the 526 pt (good space to park). Up the S side of the fence and down on the N side. Less boggy on the N side near the road. | LizH | 16/10/2023 |
Nuttall Walk EN 11.6. Great Shunner Fell up the Pennine Way from Hardraw, then across country to Lovely Seat, and back via Sedbusk. 21km with 700m ascent, taking just under 6 hours. | silverwolf_alan | 17/09/2023 |
Hawes - Lovely Seat - Little Shunner Fell - Great Shunner Fell - Hawes | AJWSmith | 09/08/2023 |
With Great Shunner from parking at Cattle Grid. I walked up in sadness and shed a tear or two, thinking about the two young 19-year old Nottingham Uni students, Grace and Barnaby, who were tragically robbed of their lives and their future, earlier on Tuesday 13th. | mazz | 18/06/2023 |
With Great Shunner. No 25 | LANGDALE | 18/08/2022 |
The first of he really hot days sp a short evening walk after drive up from home. Actually quite cool in early evening, up and down in less thn an hour. | dickscroop | 18/07/2022 |
Buttertubs pass cattle grid -> Great Shunner Fell -> Buttertubs -> Lovely Seat -> Buttertubs pass cattle grid | briandiggle | 14/06/2022 |
With Sue and NB from Thwaite, PW to Stoney Band and Shunner Fell, drop to Little SF and follow fence to road and cattle grid and up to Lovely Seat. Descend by Greenseat Beck and lanes and paths to start. Sunny and cold wind. | Frank | 19/04/2022 |
From Sedbusk, adaptation of Nuttall walk 11.6. Path to Hardraw , Pennine Way thencontrary to book and maps, the fence goes all the way to cattle grid on Buttertops pass road, followed fence to summit of Lovely Seat. Descended roughly parallel to road to pick u good bridleway back to Sedbusk. | Lazylizzie | 02/04/2022 |
Directly onwards from Great Shunner Fell having crossed the Buttertubs pass road. Down crossing towards Sod Hole Gill then following the bridleway down to Sedbusk and back into Hawes. | OM12 | 27/03/2022 |
Ascent of Lovely Seat from Hawes, via Sedbusk, Shutt Lane, Little Fell Clint, North Rakes Hill, Pike Hill and Sod Hole Gill. On to Great Shunner Fell from Bull Bogs, Grimy Gutter Hags and Little Shunner Fell. Return to Garsdale Station via Pennine Way, Cotterdale, Cotter Riggs, Thwaite Bridge, and A684. | raymooremanx | 07/09/2021 |
From Great Shunner Fell via Buttertubs Pass | Rockdoctor | 14/08/2021 |
From cattle grid at top of Buttertubs. ATV track, vague at first, on S side of fence, then improves. | Isbjorn | 22/07/2021 |
With George. Cool and windy | KatyT | 23/06/2021 |
Great Shunner Fell, Stony Band, Oxnop Common, Lovely Seat | keithouk | 25/04/2021 |
Great Shunner Fell and Lovely Seat from Hardraw. Straightforward ascent from Buttertubs Pass, too cold to linger on the summit | Gary Heath | 26/09/2020 |
From col between Great Shunner and Lovely Seat we follow the fence up from the cattle grid. Grey brooding skies - fine views and a Lovely Seat looking eastwards greet us. | briandavies | 21/07/2020 |
From thwaite via PW to GSF followed fence to butter tubs cattle grid, up to Lovely seat. Back to cattle grid and butter tubs back to thwaite. Sunny but not too hot. | Longwojo | 12/07/2020 |
Lovely Seat via Muker Common, then Little Shunner Fell, Great Shunner and along the PW to Thwaite. | Eggletina | 06/07/2020 |
From the cattle grid on Butter Tubs Pass. | Peter_W_Mitchell | 24/06/2020 |
Quick up and down from cattle grid to west. The fence leads to within 150m of the summit. | PGCE | 03/06/2020 |
Walked up from Hawes across boggy sections; views from the top in all directions arguably the best I've seen from any hill. Down via quad track just past waterfall and by hushes on northern side. Onto Muker for a pint in the Farmers Arms. | JOHNS | 01/09/2019 |
From Great shunned Fell over Little Shunner Fell to Buttertubs Road then up to Lovely Seat back to road then down to Twaite | ghullgd | 22/05/2019 |
Over Little Shunner to Buttertubs Road then straight up | Gordy | 22/05/2019 |
Quick up and down from cattle grid to NW. | jonglew | 30/04/2019 |
from Thwaite after doing the Pennine Way from Hardraw solo | colinfielding | 18/03/2019 |
Lovely Seat > Lovely Seat (Little Rigg) > Muker Common > Lovely Seat (Peter Rigg) from GR: SD 86779 95538 | ronaldo333 | 06/01/2019 |
Lovely Seat > Lovely Seat (Little Rigg) > Muker Common > Lovely Seat (Peter Rigg) from GR: SD 86779 95538 | Hippster | 06/01/2019 |
Lovely Seat and nearby tops from Butter Tubs road. Warm, still, dry, blue skies. 7.3k, 238m, with Fiona, Alexander & Rebecca. | agentmancuso | 18/10/2018 |
With JF including Great Shunner | patriciagill | 29/04/2018 |
Lovely Seat > Lovely Seat (Peter Rigg) > Lovely Seat End from GR: SD 86779 95538 | ronaldo333 | 31/03/2018 |
On Nuttalls' route from Hardraw via Great Shunner Fell first. Visited Butter Tubs on the way to Lovely Seat.Plenty of snow on the ground, but clouds lifted on second hill. Down past Hardraw Force. | huwthomas | 17/02/2018 |
Parked by the cattle grid and ascended near fence to summit over snow covered frozen bog - perfect. | garyhoney | 28/12/2017 |
Parked at top of Buttertubs pass and climbed up by fence after assent of Great Shunner Fell. | wozzat | 28/12/2017 |
from Buttertubs Pass with SCM | IanHHill | 16/10/2017 |
Solo | HFB | 17/09/2017 |
Muker - Stony Band - Great Shunner - Lovely Seat - Greenseat Beck - Muker. Simple plod from the Buttertubs in thick mist using the fence as guidance. | Jake994 | 11/08/2017 |
With K from near Buttertubs. Recommend south side of fence. | Ashley | 16/07/2017 |
Solo - From Great Shunner Fell - Retuen to Hardrow. | Aimless Rambler | 03/06/2017 |
Hardraw, Great Shunner Fell, Lovely Seat, Sedbusk, pub. Hot day. | Northender | 25/05/2017 |
Simple walk up from the top of the Buttertubs road, on landrover/quadbike tracks following the line of the fence. Worthwhile and pleasant, good views from summit/ low scarp and cairn just W. Sunny, very dry underfoot. My last Ma/Hu above 2000 ft S of the border with Scotland. | pwheeler | 10/05/2017 |
Popped up from the cattle grid at Buttertubs, whilst supervising girls on Gold expedition | dianepick | 16/04/2017 |
Parked at top of pass by cattle grid (15:35). Followed path on RHS of fence to stile by summit. Strong W wind, cloud, drizzle, but great to be out. Finish 16:20. | dbb | 16/03/2017 |
From parking area at cattle grid to west. Followed path to rhs of fence then over stile near top to the summit. | mart0797 | 17/02/2017 |
Nuttall Walk EN 11.6 Great Shunner Fell and Lovely Seat from Hardraw. 19km with 660m ascent in just under 6 hours. Snow covered and bitterly cold! With Geoff and Steve. | silveracorn_alan | 26/01/2017 |
2mFM Radio Activation HNP-030. Parked in layby next to cattle grid. Murky and damp. With Therese and dogs. | Petem0hqo | 26/09/2016 |
With Jo, from Buttertubs Pass, then south over Abbotside Common to Sedbusk and onto Hawes. Weather; overcast, drizzle and good visibility. | amblerbob | 19/06/2016 |
CLIMBED GREAT SHUNNER FELL VIA PENNINE WAY USING NUTTALLS WALK 11.6. LOVELY DAY BUT STRONG WIND. EASY DESCENT TO BUTTERTUBS AND REASCENT TO LOVELY SEAT. PENNINE WAY BUSY BUT OTHERWISE HAD THE HILLS TO MYSELF. | BURGESS | 11/05/2016 |