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Name: | Long Fell |
Hill number: | 7900 |
Height: | 452m / 1483ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2559 Tarn Crag (Sleddale) |
RHB Section: | 34C: Lake District - Eastern Fells |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Lake District - Far Eastern Fells |
County/UA: | Westmorland and Furness |
Catchment: | Lune |
Class: | Tump (400-499m), Synge (Tu,4,Sy) |
Grid ref: | NY 55706 08550 |
Summit feature: | no feature |
Drop: | 43m |
Col: | 409m NY552087 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 90 (1:25k) OL7N |
Observations: | ground by track 40m NE at NY 55737 08575 is 50cm lower |
Survey: | Abney level |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 68 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Cj bw | chrisj1965 | 03/09/2023 |
As the Velvet Underground didn't quite sing: 
Sunday morning brings the dawn in 
It's just a restless feeling by my side 
Early dawning, Sunday morning 
The jobsworth wasn't so close behind. | Martin R | 27/03/2022 |
R | Richard Tait | 30/08/2021 |
2/3 From sSap Summit, across the rough to Thorny Bank then back to the nearby Stone Cairn, heading North West to pick up Bridleway which comes out at A6 slightly East of the quarry. Cross A6 straight up RHS of quarry boundary fence to the summit. Gorgeous light here today, in the sunshine, snow with whips of cloud clearning. Down and up to Hazel bank following a herd of about 100 deer. Mice all over the place in the snow too. Then down East up beside trees and picked up the old rail line back to the car. A lovely snowy round. Frozen ground helps. 4 hours. | nickywood1 | 03/01/2021 |
Parking at Wet Sleddale reservoir - 'wet' is highly appropriate, only the very summits provided any semnlance of 'dryness'. Sleddale Hall, Scam Matthew, then almost trackless purgatory commenced - Ullthwaite Rigg, Tongue Rigg, Sleddale Pike, Wasdale Pike, Hazel Bank, Long Fell, quarry road, A6, Shap Lodge, track back to reservoir. After Scam Matthew intermittent ATV and An Tx provided a little relief from the interminable boot wrecking toody blussock grass. Having descended the quarry road, a sign says there is no public access (but it was a Sunday, so unoccupied), Only after having negotiated the bog to get onto it , a sign says that there is no public access along the cart track back to the reservoir, even though it is within an Open Access area. | Isbjorn | 27/08/2020 |
Wet Sleddale parking area at NY 5547 1142. Up path/sheep trod through a couple of gateways & over a pipe bridge at 553107 before joining shooters track - SE along track to 558101, up over wire fence & then across mainly rough grass between areas of heather to the summit area. Visited the granite slab & mound of waste behind it. Also visited the slab mentioned by JG which lies 35m to the NE; this is marked by 5 lumps of granite. (S) | gerrybowes | 20/06/2020 |
A6 Shap Summit, Hazel Bank, Shap Quarry Mast, Wasdale Pike, Great Sleddale Crag, Sleddale Pike, Tongue Rigg, Ulthwaite Rigg, Harrop Pike, Lawyers Brow, Great Yarlside, Little Yarlside, Whatshaw Common, A6. Great area for solitude & marsh plants! | Vin | 05/03/2020 |
Although it was a Sunday I decided to avoid the quarry side, parked at the next layby to the north and walk up the east side. | JohnW | 24/11/2019 |
Followed in Hillsidenick's footsteps | IWC | 27/10/2019 |
With Bryher from Hazel Bank. Must be the ugliest Synge top. Why is it on the list I wonder. | jenx | 19/05/2019 |
Sunday morning early doors, no signs of life. Parked at quarry entrance took the main track for a short way then walked up a deteriorating track from point -2.68191 54.46826 zigzag up to some water settling lagoons from point, this then picks up the track to the mast and misses the main quarry habitation. Later coming back through the quarry from Wasdale Farm I met an officious person who told me I was on private property and didn't I know this is a working quarry, I apologised and expressed amazement at the thought of the quarry being active despite the obvious signs and offered to hot foot it out. | DC11main | 05/05/2019 |
5pm Sunday evening. Parked at quarry entrance, walked up track then steeply up bank to north,hoping to pick up track to mast but instead found myself in main quarrying area where I met a security guard who told me that I was committing an offence and to go back the way I'd come or he'd remove my car. I apologised for being there, respectfully pointed out that I wasn't committing any offence and that if he removed my car he would be. I then left the site by the shortest route, which was onto the mast track (50 yards away and outside the boundary fence). On to Hazel Bank. Addendum - was woken up later at home in Lancashire by the police near enough bashing my front door down and demanding to know what I'd been doing in Cumbria. Amazing that they're allegedly too undermanned to investigate crime but still manage this sort of thing. | Wycombe Wanderer | 15/10/2018 |
Took a direct line from Wasdale Pike on a short round of a few Lakeland outliers. Summit GR is a soil bank, possibly covering the natural HP as that's where the OS has placed the spot height. Trig bolt on slab rock at NY 55735 08576 has to be a contender for HP. | jonglew | 04/08/2018 |
With Bryher, parking at Quarry access in lay by on main road. Up to the old land to Wasdale Head farm, followed track around Hazel Bank, contoured through the bog like fellside to near the col below Long Fell. Up its West flank to mast and then the modified soil piled top. Not sure this high point will be here for long as quarry working encroaches. Down track and hillside back to start | nordicstar | 04/12/2017 |
Parked in large layby on A6 just north of Pink Quarry entrance. Used Moorman's route to start with, but heavy going on rough ground so detoured left into quarry and up roads to mast and summit. Easiest way to bag this is to go on a Sunday when quarry closed and enter by main gate then it is good track all way to top. Highest point covered by piles of soil so impossible to tell where natural high point is at the current time. On to Hazel Bank via old farm at Wasdale Head. | Hillsidenick | 05/11/2017 |
From the car park at Wet Sleddale dam. With Eire, Evan, Sail, Danu, Coel & Alfie. | Dangerous Dave | 23/04/2017 |
Long Fell - Hazel Bank - Packhorse Hill from GR: NY 56216 08292 | ronaldo333 | 15/04/2017 |
Up on a day the quarry is closed, better access and Hazel Bank | nordicstar | 27/11/2016 |
From Shap summit Memorial CP via Hazel Bank | Anduril | 02/06/2016 |
From Shap summit via Whatshaw Common East Top and Hazel Bank | Corbett | 02/06/2016 |
Round of Long Fell, Sleddale Pike, Tongue Rigg, Ulthwaite Rigg, Great Saddle Crag, Wasdale Pike and Hazel Bank from Shap Pink Quarry. Cycled past the quarry but nobody took a blind notice. | Eddie | 07/03/2016 |
Park in the large layby just north of the quarry entrance (alt 1115ft). A space has been left between the edge of the quarry fence and the fencing around the trees. This enables walkers to pass up to the open access area without any fences to climb. On reaching the quarry road turn right for 20m and the path reaches the road (no need to climb the fence). From here it is a slog to the summit round the quarry edge and over very messy ground. A quarryman came to see me (in a huge bulldozer) just to warn me to keep away from the edge. Couldn't really understand my reason for being there at 5pm on a bitterly cold, sleeting winter's evening. Had to agree with him! 1.12 miles return,367 ft ascent, 40 mins. | moorsman | 02/03/2016 |
From Wet Sleddale with Alf | mick | 26/11/2015 |
With Hazel Bank | jimbloomer | 15/08/2015 |
not easy to do due to quarry below and boggy conditions to the south - not sure these odd Synges are worth the bother!! | benarbia_8 | 03/08/2015 |
Whatshaw Common East Top, Hazel Bank and Long Fell from large layby on A6 by memorial. Spooked a herd of about 30 deer in Wasdale bottom. Wasdale Beck is fast flowing but can be jumped if you find the right spot. | Crib Goch | 14/03/2015 |
Round RH side of quarry workings from A6. Plenty of snow and ice about made the quarry look quite impressive. Millions of tons of rock about and no cairn on heathery summit! | Aye Jimmy | 01/02/2015 |
Very foggy. Visibility of metres | mcbiydw2 | 19/02/2014 |
With Jo, circular walk from A6 Summit: Whatshaw Common East Top, Hazel Bank, To Stone or to’ther, Long Fell, descending along road through Shap Pink Quarry (Granite) to A6, then bridleway over Wasdale Old Bridge with a visit to Packhorse Hill. Weather; high intermittent cloud, sunny intervals, warm, very good visibility. | amblerbob | 14/08/2013 |
1 hour from Sleddale. 
Summit 100m north of the mast. Unmarked grassy top. | peebs | 08/07/2013 |
Linear route -3 Synges above A6 with Darren. Lovely pink granite rock specimens collected from Shap 'pink quarry' on way out (from where I had first collected samples on a geology trip as a school boy -still have one of them!) The ruined Wasdale Head farmhouse is made of impressively fine blocks of this granite . | Chris Pearson | 15/07/2007 |
dickiewren | 06/08/2023 | |
Michael Hood | 02/06/2023 | |
Jill Robertson | 28/07/2021 | |
Lucky | 13/05/2021 | |
maknipe | 13/05/2021 | |
Scott Morley 86 | 28/02/2021 | |
amblemark | 11/11/2020 | |
conanharrod | 21/10/2020 | |
greenandblue | 02/10/2020 | |
pwithnall | 02/10/2020 | |
CraigDring | 04/09/2020 | |
PeteN | 26/11/2019 | |
PaulineC | 27/10/2019 | |
DARRENG | 14/04/2019 | |
AndyS | 21/12/2018 | |
AdyGray | 31/08/2018 | |
Jacqdaw | 05/11/2017 | |
Jim.Fothergill | 04/05/2017 | |
Wilkins Synges | 31/12/2016 |