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| Name: | High Kop |
| Hill number: | 7981 |
| Height: | 662m / 2172ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2528 High Street |
| RHB Section: | 34C: Lake District - Eastern Fells |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Lake District - Far Eastern Fells |
| County/UA: | Westmorland and Furness |
| Catchment: | Eden (Carlisle) |
| Class: | Synge (Sy) |
| Grid ref: | NY 45894 15960 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: grass |
| Drop: | 1m |
| Col: | 661m NY457160  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 90 (1:25k) OL5S |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 154 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Short detour from Fusedale Round. | RobB | 01/01/2024 |
| 6 of 15 starting at st. Martins church. Bit out of the way but needed bagging. Boggy path | The-Z-Man | 03/09/2023 |
| with sean. 15 in 1 day and passed 100 hills | jordanwalmsley1987 | 03/09/2023 |
| A revisit to explore of the northern end of the High Street Range from Martindale New Church, bagging 6 Wainwrights for my 4th round and other lesser peaks. This time with Chris. Visited Steel Knotts, Brownthwaite Crag, Gowk Hill, High Kop, Wether Hill -Nuttall, Wether Hill-Wainwright, Loadpot Hill, Swarth Fell, Bonscale Pike, Arthur's Pike, White Knott, and Hallin Fell. 22km with 1000m ascent in 8 hours. | silverwolf_alan | 15/05/2023 |
| With LAA and J | GCW | 29/04/2023 |
| Fusedale circuit from church. 8 of 12 | thekirkie pirate | 23/02/2023 |
| Great walk from Bampton | ScaSey | 27/01/2023 |
| A Loadpot Hill round from St Peters, Martindale. | Sedge | 29/09/2022 |
| Low Kop, High Kop, Wether Hill, Wether Hill, Brownthwaite Crag, Steel Knotts | keithouk | 19/06/2022 |
| Low Kop-High Kop -Wether Hill-Loadpot Hill- Bonscale Pike -Arthurs Pike - Loadpot Hill- Wether Hill- High Kop- Low Kop | benarbia again | 01/05/2022 |
| Parked at Burnbanks, then walked a circuit of Pinnacle Howe, Little Birkhouse Hill, Four Stones Hill, Bampton Common, Low Kop, High Kop, Red Crag (on the west side of the fence), Raven Howe (on the west side of the wall), High Raise, Low Raise and Castle Crag (awkward descent). The return along the reservoir path seemed to take forever, but this was a good outing. | oldbagger27 | 10/02/2022 |
| surprisingly easy going from Wether Hill with James | HardenC | 05/01/2022 |
| Taken in on the return route from Low Raise | smocks and denims | 11/11/2021 |
| An exploration of the northern end of the High Street Range from Martindale New Church, bagging 6 Wainwrights for my 3rd round and other lesser peaks. Visited Steel Knotts, Brownthwaite Crag, Gowk Hill, High Kop, Wether Hill -Nuttall, Wether Hill-Wainwright, Loadpot Hill, Swarth Fell, Bonscale Pike, Arthur's Pike, White Knott, and Hallin Fell. 22km with 1000m ascent in 6h 40m. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 25/10/2021 |
| Jon Glew says it all | carole engel | 11/09/2021 |
| Lakes 50 race with Pauline | milejunkie | 24/07/2021 |
| From Red Crag then down to Low Kop. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 22/07/2021 |
| From Burnbanks, exploring the tops on Brampton Common. Snow above 400m. Clear and dry. With B and R. | jenx | 01/01/2021 |
| Circuit of hills above Haweswater Reservoir starting and finishing at Mardale Carpark. Kidsty Pike, Rampsgill Head, High Raise (High Street),Low Raise, Raven Howe, Red Crag, Wether Hill (x2), High Kop, Low Kop, Bampton Fell (Bampton Common) and Four Stones Hill. | BobHancock | 12/09/2020 |
| Debs & Tali, enroute to Howtown picking up unbagged tops (incl wainwright Wether Hill) Then ferry back to Glenridding. | Mountain Goat | 22/10/2019 |
| Parked near Moorahill Farm east of Bampton - HauseEnd - Hause (between the plantations - Low Kop Summit - High Kop Summit - Keysgill Head - Red Crag Summit - Raven Howe Summit - High Raise Summit - Rampsgill Head Summit - The Knott Summit - Straits of Riggindale to pick up track around the Head of Riggindale Beck to the Kidsty Pike Summit back to High Raise then back to Bampton along a similar route to our trek out. | briandavies | 21/04/2019 |
| A repeat of a 2012 Birkett bagging round from Burnbanks to High Raise for the Synges I wasn't doing at the time. My 2012 route (pre-tracklog recording) looked like it went over this but it was away from the ground track. | Jim.Fothergill | 27/02/2019 |
| From Martindale Church with NB. Pikawassa, Brownthwaite Crag, Gowk Hill, Red Crag, Raven Howe, High Kop, two Wether Hill Tops. Return via Fusedale. Cold and cloudy still day. Not bad for stat of year | Frank | 03/01/2019 |
| From Martindale Church with FR Steel Knotts, Brownthwaite Crag, Gowk Hill, Red Crag, Raven Howe, High Kop, Wether hill 674, Wether hill 671. | Bheinn | 03/01/2019 |
| Bob & Duke Saturday 6th/10/10/2018 Z 1551 hrs. | DukeNukem | 06/10/2018 |
| On LDWA walk with Ian, Tony and Ian and Jaz. Lovely clarity in the air today on our high street and Angle Tarn Pikes walk. | nickywood1 | 23/09/2018 |
| The Knott, Rampsgill Head, High Raise, Low Raise, Raven Howe, Red Crag, High Kop, Wether Hill, Gowk Hill, Brownthwaite Crag, Steel Knotts, Hallin Fell | keithouk | 29/04/2018 |
| Parked in Martindale, Swarth Fell, Bonscale Pike, Arthur's Pike, Loadpot Hill, Wether Hill, High Kop, Red Crag, Gowk Hill, Brownthwaite Hill. Sunny and cold conditions with good views and wet under foot. | Fell_wanderer | 20/03/2018 |
| Parked at Burnbanks for loop of minor hills. Lovely walk back alongside Haweswater reservoir. | Jhimmy | 03/12/2017 |
| The 6th top of a Birkett bagging trip from parking area opposite the phone box in Burnbanks. Started with Pinnacle Howe & finished on Castle Crag, bagging 7 Birketts & 3 Synges along the way. Apart from a tussocky descent to Castle Crag, good paths & tracks for much of the way. (PM) | gerrybowes | 07/06/2017 |
| 6th of the day with GB. | bolton | 07/06/2017 |
| White Knott - Arthur's Pike - Loadpot Hill - Wether Hill (W) - Wether Hill (N) - High Kop from GR: NY 47824 23707 | ronaldo333 | 03/06/2017 |
| With G from Bampton > Pinnacle Howe via Drybarrows > Little Birkhouse Hill > Four Stones Hill > Bampton Fell > Low Kop > High Kop > Wether Hill > Loadpot Hill > Bampton via The Pen | RT1970 | 22/05/2017 |
| Rubbish flat grassy top, but at least very near a good double track heading from Wether Hill to Low Kop. So featureless that farmer has ercted wooden post to find way in bad weather. Back to Wether Hill to redo the Wainwright before calling it a day. | Hillsidenick | 22/04/2017 |
| Beautiful Easter Monday in the Lakes with GFE. Parked at the church at Martindale and completed Pikeawassa, Brownthwaite Crag, Gowk Hill, Red Crag, Raven Howe, High Kop, Wether Hill (both tops) and Loadpot Hill before coming down before Brock Crag to Cote Farm & following the footpath back. | Fionalevey | 17/04/2017 |
| 5 of 12 on a 21k round, parking at Martindale. From Wether Hill (the Nuttall), and on to Wether Hill (the Wainwright). Another grotty barely-a-hill with nothing to commend it. Sometimes wonder why I do Synges, but then some of them are little gems, so on we go! | jonglew | 10/03/2017 |
| Wonderful day, 15 tops, 14+ miles. The Nab, Rest Dood, The Knott, Rampsgill Head, High Raise, Low Raise, Raven Howe, Red Crag, Wether Hill (both tops), Loadpot Hill, Gowk Hill, Brownthwaite Crag and Steel Knotts. | clivevilla | 22/01/2017 |
| From Red Crag, on to Kidsty Pike. | Wycombe Wanderer | 15/11/2016 |
| From Burnbanks after the 4 Birketts to the east. | ngthack | 19/06/2016 |
| fa/, 2 in party, sunny with a breeze, 15 mile round starting and ending in howtown, via steel knotts taking in all the minor tops, to high raise, kidsty pike, rampsgill head then back taking in low raise, high kop, wether hill, load pot hill, arthur pike & bonscale pike and back to howtown. | rum doodle | 16/07/2015 |
| From Burnbanks en route to Loadpot hill. | Crib Goch | 23/05/2015 |
| Climbed from Howtown while reccing stage 10 of the Lakeland 100 | robert | 21/04/2015 |
| with parlick mike & Liz Halpin, a bright and cold day | Shutterlag | 11/04/2015 |
| R | Richard Tait | 21/02/2015 |
| With Alf from Burnbanks en route for Wether Hill | mick | 05/12/2014 |
| From Low Kop, a mile of gentle uphill on broad grassy track brings one to a wooden post. Summit about 70m away to the SW on banking. Having seen no-one all day, three hang-gliders suddenly appear over top of Wether Hill! Easy return to Burnbanks and the day had turned out sunny. | Aye Jimmy | 23/11/2014 |
| Parked off road to east of Moorahill Farm then Low Kop, High Kop, Red Craig, Raven Howe, Wether Hill, Wether Hill Wainwright and Loadpot Hill plus trig on a lovely sunny day. | Dugswell2 | 02/10/2014 |
| Up from Moorahill Farm Via Low Kop and on to Wether Hill and Loadpot Hill in mostly cloudy weather.With Oscar. | catman | 09/07/2014 |
| From Moorahill Farm on mostly cloudy day-Low Kop-High Kop-Wether Hill(both tops)=Loadpot Hill.With Catman. | oscarrosie | 09/07/2014 |
| Burnbanks > Bamapton Common > High Kop > Red Crag > Wether Hill (N) > Wether Hill (W,B) > Loadpot Hill > Low Kop > Bampton Fell > Four Stones Hill > Pinnacle Howe > Burnbanks | Tony Hartry II | 17/07/2013 |