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Name: | Brownhow Hill |
Hill number: | 7974 |
Height: | 305m / 1001ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2583 Great Mell Fell |
RHB Section: | 34C: Lake District - Eastern Fells |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Lake District - Eastern Fells |
County/UA: | Westmorland and Furness |
Catchment: | Eden (Carlisle) |
Class: | Synge (Sy) |
Grid ref: | NY 40818 26572 |
Summit feature: | no feature: rushes |
Drop: | 16m |
Col: | 289m NY406264 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 90 (1:25k) OL5S |
Observations: | flat summit area |
Survey: | Abney level |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
N.B. Some hill summits are on private property or on land where there is no public right of way. Permission should be sought from the landowner where access to a hill summit is through private land.
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 60 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Turn off the main A66 onto the minor road to Matterdale End, park on the verge at Swinescales. follow the lonning opposite to the end and go through the gate and follow the wide path to the top. | smocks and denims | 12/09/2023 |
Parked on the A66 then followed the minor road to where the track starts. Followed this to gate which leads to summit. There are works going on in the final summit field. Earth movers and tractors. No one there on my visit though. | Alan Caine | 21/06/2021 |
Track to within 30m of summit | conanharrod | 24/09/2020 |
Parked on old A66, walked from east along track to summit with Nick. | Jacqdaw | 17/09/2020 |
Pleasant and easy stroll with Jacqui. Private but no access issues. From layby on old A66. Coffee at Sportsman Inn before onto second walk of day | Hillsidenick | 17/09/2020 |
Used track opposite Swinescales and walked to end of it, through the gate and the track continues almost to the summit. Very easy and pleasant views from here. | nickywood1 | 21/06/2020 |
From Swinescales | PeteN | 13/02/2019 |
Easy using track from Swinescales. Great snowy scenery today. With Bryher.. | jenx | 31/01/2019 |
Very easy via gate and track to east. | Wycombe Wanderer | 09/12/2018 |
Possible to park on the track north of the hill where it leaves the minor road at Swinescales (alt 265m). Brisk walk along the track, crossing one gate, before it turns south towards the summit. About 25 minutes return. | moorsman | 10/05/2018 |
Solo. Parked on old A66. Followed forest road from Tarn Moss Nature Reserve. Followed drainage ditch, just after second fire-watch tower, to edge of forest. Climbed barbedwire fence. Easy stroll to summit, out of site of farm. Back same way. | Dangerous Dave | 19/11/2017 |
hard summit to find as no marker 
 
few walls to climb from main gate to field 
 
old log wrong date | darren-646 | 12/08/2017 |
From Swinescales. Farm track initially then across a sheep pasture and finally a rough mixed pasture. Somewhat overshadowed by Great Mell Fell. | jonglew | 23/07/2017 |
hard summit to find | darren-646 | 12/07/2017 |
R Trev Rob average summit! | Richard Tait | 02/06/2017 |
After Lofshaw Hill, went through forest S of Tarn Moss nature reserve to track leading to Swinescales. Quick up and down from gate beside track at NY 407269 | AlanD | 01/01/2017 |
Up and down from Hutton Road end in ten minutes. Wall to climb can be avoided at N end. | Eddie | 17/11/2016 |
Brownhow Hill | ronaldo333 | 07/08/2016 |
Parked in lane to E and took RH of two gates towards hill into field with wooden tower. Then field edges with a few obstacles. | Aye Jimmy | 22/07/2015 |
From minor road to East, across a couple of fields. Technically a trespass, but the land is so poor, impossible to do any harm. Summit is a dense reed bed, but oddly quite dry. | Crib Goch | 30/05/2015 |
From Great Mell Fell | peebs | 07/10/2014 |
Parked to East at road junction, gate through field, then another gate to wall, easily climbed to top in dense reed beds. | nordicstar | 31/08/2014 |
Over from Great Mell Fell. Access difficult but an easy climb | mcbiydw2 | 12/03/2014 |
With Jo, circular walk from Beckces: road to Hutton, Stoddah Bank, across field to Brownhow Hill, and then road to start. Weather; overcast, cool, good visibility. | amblerbob | 08/12/2012 |
Coast was clear so dashed across field full of sheep - and back. Solo outing from 'Sunnybank' cottage. | Chris Pearson | 25/05/2007 |
Scott Morley 86 | 30/10/2022 | |
Michael Hood | 08/04/2022 | |
andrew brown | 13/02/2022 | |
RobB | 01/12/2021 | |
amblemark | 22/12/2020 | |
Jill Robertson | 22/12/2020 | |
jimbloomer | 08/07/2020 | |
CraigDring | 22/06/2020 | |
Dusty | 07/02/2020 | |
Craig67 | 19/06/2019 | |
DARRENG | 29/03/2019 | |
AdyGray | 21/07/2018 | |
ALHEJ Wilkins | 06/08/2017 | |
Wilkins Synges | 06/08/2017 | |
ALHEJ B3 | 06/08/2017 | |
Matt | 16/06/2017 | |
IWC | 10/12/2016 | |
PaulineC | 10/12/2016 | |
GaryJones | 19/09/2016 | |
jamiehighton | 18/02/2016 | |
benarbia_8 | 05/09/2015 | |
DC11main | 26/03/2015 | |
Dave Geere | 01/03/2015 | |
Rambling Ray | 20/12/2014 | |
Tony Rogers | 22/08/2014 |