| Name: | Ward's Stone |
| Hill number: | 2811 |
| Height: | 562.4m / 1845ft |
| County/UA: | Lancashire |
| Topographical area: | EP05 Wardstone-longridge |
| SMC/RHB section: | 36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines |
| Catchment: | Lune, Catchment Boundaries, Wyre |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Dodd (500-599m), Dewey, Clem (Ma,Hu,Tu,5,Dew,Cm) |
| Grid ref: | SD 59195 58738 |
| Summit feature: | small cairn on peat hag |
| Drop: | 400.9m |
| Col: | 161.5m SD 7882 6444  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 102 (1:25k) OL41W |
| Observations: | measured to be 563.0m; cairn is 60m W of easterly trig point |
| Survey: | Leica Runner 20 Surveying Ward's Stone.doc |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 450 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From Jubilee Tower | Slash3 | 30/08/2024 |
| Up from the Jubilee Tower CP to Grit Fell then on to Ward's Stone and back for Clougha Pike before returning to CP. | summitter | 27/06/2024 |
| From Tarnbrook. Track over Rugged Crag on OS 2018 map barely exists. | peter4lc | 25/06/2024 |
| An evening walk in the sun. I parked at the Jubilee Tower and took the extremely boggy path up to Grit Fell. I then walked down the ridge to Clougha Pike where unfortunately a loved up couple pulled in front of me just as I arrived from another path and did their best to obstruct any photos. Then back to the Grit Fell summit and then up to Ward's Stone for the summit and two trigpoints, and a particularly good sunset. 18.3km. Conditions not bad underfoot today, very wet coming up but across the top it was ok. /D | meltdiceburg | 14/06/2024 |
| From Grit Fell. Had a look at the two trigs and the weather station. On to Wolfhole Crag. | Vulcan | 29/02/2024 |
| Along fence to Grit Fell and up path to Ward's Stone. Very windy and driving rain on way back. | PhilipChaston | 24/12/2023 |
| With James on a very wet windy day. Started from Jubilee Tower up Grit Fell, then Ward's Stone and back to Clogha Pike before looping back round through Appletree. Had a look at The Three Chairs on..slightly to North of ridge in old Quarry. Fine stonework. Ground generally not too soft underfoot | HardenC | 20/12/2023 |
| R | Richard Tait | 22/08/2023 |
| From the Jubilee Tower. Very warm morning. Lots of birds on the Moor. Lovely up here. | Play2End | 11/06/2023 |
| From the parking area near Middle Lee (the road is signed Tarnbrook cul de sac) 56941 55438. A Fifteen mile walk first to see the Goldsworthy artwork then to summit Ward's stone and Wolfhole crag returning in Five and half hours. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 07/04/2023 |
| 13.1 mile circular walk from the Jubilee Tower. | KevPalmer | 13/02/2023 |
| Jubilee Tower, Grit Fell, Ward's Stone trig, Ward's Stone summit & then Mallowdale Pike trig before descending to the Queen's Chair with its pivot. Then followed the boundary fence/wall over to UU Road before following it back to Tarnbrook. Then road walk back to Jubilee Tower. | Dugswell2 | 13/02/2023 |
| Zero visibility approach on a compass bearing across the moor from the north on NYE with Nigel. | cumbria mammoth | 31/12/2022 |
| From Jubilee Tower, via Grit Fell, returned by same route. Very wet on lower slopes, but not too bad higher up, as others have noted. 12.5km, 2.5 hours | Rockdoctor | 12/11/2022 |
| Highest Hill in Forest of Bowland | NyeBowman | 27/10/2022 |
| From Jubilee Tower with Lesley via Grit Fell, on to Ward's Stone both tops and scrambled up the stone. Then joined track on north side near toffs canteen hut, visited the Goldsworthy stone constructions. Across ridge to join initial path. Superb day and views. Boggy lower slopes but suprisingly rest of walk dry underfoot, even off path and over peat. | Nick Canute | 18/10/2022 |
| Parked Tower Lodge, SD604539. North up track and across fields to Tarnbrook. North up track to its end and on path past butts to pathless summit plateau. Outcrop at west end looks higher than cairn on a hag. Descended east to track at SD618582. Followed this to Tarnbrook and back over to Tower Lodge. Very hot day. | Flatfield | 10/08/2022 |
| Heading back from Risley, with Grit fell | Mountain Goat | 13/07/2022 |
| circular from Rigg Lane cart park | MarkG1878 | 31/01/2022 |
| Came up from Quernmore tower via Grit Fell, bagged both trigs before descending via luncheon hut. | ssstevesreeves | 25/09/2021 |
| White Hill and Ward's Stone from Wyresdale. | tomd4 | 12/09/2021 |
| From Jubilee Tower | paulhilder | 20/08/2021 |
| With Sal. Great views of Dales and Morecambe Bay. From Tarnbrook. Crossed large noisy seagull roost with 100s going direct, but back via other trig on nice run down aided by paths and tracks. | davechaffey | 16/07/2021 |
| From Jubilee Tower, via Grit Fell, reasonably good going underfoot. Visited both Trig points and HP on peat hag. Back same way. | PeterD | 02/07/2021 |
| Jubilee Tower - Grit Fell - Ward's Stone - Wolfhole Crag - White Hill - Cross of Greet. With JH, AB, PW. | Mark Jackson | 19/06/2021 |
| From carpark at Jubilee Tower. A warm day and the bog was pretty dry making this an easy ascent to Grit Fell and both trigs on Ward’s Stones plateau. The actual hight point is a peat hag 60m west of the second trig. There’s a small cairn on top not visible till you jump up there. For those attempting this jaunt when the bog is wet beware its an 8 mile round trip, and with bog hopping and dodging will take a good while to complete. Despite this being a sunny summer day I only met one other walker. Lovely to be alone, but do go properly prepared. | Pete West | 04/06/2021 |
| Grit Fell and Ward's Stone from the tower. With M and X (K chose to skip Ward's Stone and waited on a picnic blanket near the col). | Herbert Anchovy | 30/05/2021 |
| Clougha Pike, Grit Fell, Ward's Stone | keithouk | 30/03/2021 |
| Several times, earliest 2012 | Flatfield | 19/11/2020 |
| Overdid it with 18km walk through rough ground after work. | atreides7887 | 10/09/2020 |
| After Grit Fell. | Wheelsy | 09/08/2020 |
| Very wet and boggy ascent | RedAna | 06/08/2020 |
| Both trig points reached. Walked with Aunty Ann, thirteen miles in total. Was meant to do Grit Fell but navigational error meant we missed it. Saw Andy Goldsworthy Three Chair sculpture which was well worth finding. | ktt93 | 21/07/2020 |
| From Jubilee Tower car park, over Grit Fell. In cloud once above 380m. | CJM | 16/07/2020 |
| Second visit, did both trig points and continued onto Wolfhole Crag. From Tarnbrook with nocksta. | andrew brown | 14/06/2020 |
| From small parking area at SD 569 554, walked along the road to Tarnbrook, then up estate road (permissive track) to the ridge at SD 618 582. East along the ridge to trig and rocks at Wolfhole Crag. Retraced route west back across the road and on to both trigs on Ward's Stone and further west to next estate road (SD 564 588), which was followed south back to Lower Lee. 21km with 530m ascent in 5h10m. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 07/06/2020 |
| an hour and a half each way from carpark at tower. Harder than its height suggests. | gettingonabit | 07/06/2020 |
| Dry paths from Jubilee Tower to Ward's Stone via Grit Fell.Warm day but hazy views. | catman | 02/06/2020 |
| From Lee, there is parking beyond the no more parking sign. Up Tarnbrook syke path and then West to the breast. Here a stream goes under the track and a decent enough path snakes up to the weather station and Western trig. Somewgat muted views today but still clear enough to see Southern Lakes etc. Easy over to peat hag and Eastern trig. 8 Eng/Wal Marilyns left now.. Off to Wolfhole next | stig_nest | 26/05/2020 |
| from Wolfhole crag with Andy following wall/fence slightly wet underfoot | colinfielding | 25/05/2020 |
| From Wolfhole Crags via Brown Syke. Reasonable path alongside wall. | Andrew Pearson | 25/05/2020 |
| 3/3 - lengthy walk from Cross of Greet to take in all three Dewey Summits - fine and dry underfoot. Took a little longer than expected - it's quite a long one | wychwood | 25/05/2020 |
| 11.5 mile walk from road west of Tarnbrook, plenty of space to park 0.5 miles before the hamlet, walked into hamlet then took permissive track north up to contouring track followed this then another trail right up to the summit (first time bagged since 2005), afterwards followed surprisingly easy and dry ridge all the way to Wolfhole Crag, turned back then took permissive track back down to Tarnbrook. After this we drove to and bagged Nicky Nook and then Williamson Park. Warm and sunny with clear skies but slightly hazy, had good views of the Dales peaks but not of the Lakes. Saw 5 other people. | DanTrig | 20/05/2020 |
| Mostly running, from viewpoint near Quernmore, en route Wilms – Edinb. Path very wet but weather stayed dry. 25Mph winds. | Rounsfell | 08/03/2020 |
| Parked just short of Dunkenshaw and used the Land Rover track up Tarnsyke Clough to 450m then easy over grass and short heather to bag top and both nearby trigs. Sunny intervals but no rain, a modest breeze and totally dry underfoot. | NormanW | 08/02/2020 |
| Muddy round of Ward Stone and Wolfhole crag with RHB group | Buteobuteo | 23/11/2019 |
| Fine Bagger Rambles outing with Bill and the two Tonys. Came up with a new aspirant Dodder chant which got its first recital atop the peat hag. | Alex C | 23/11/2019 |
| Parked on the verge half a mile west of Tarnbrook. To the end of the track leading north from Tarnbrook. Then a line of grouse butts and rough ground to the trig point. Back the same way. 2 hours exactly inc 10 mins at the top. Karen stayed in the car: no problems. | ChrisR | 19/10/2019 |
| Ward’s Stone Trig > Ward’s Stone > Wolfhole Crag from GR: SD 58797 55651 | ronaldo333 | 05/10/2019 |
| Ward’s Stone Trig > Ward’s Stone > Wolfhole Crag from GR: SD 58797 55651 | Hippster | 05/10/2019 |