| Name: | Holme Wood Hill |
| Hill number: | 16763 |
| Height: | 190m / 623ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2815 Fair Snape Fell |
| County/UA: | Lancashire |
| Topographical area: | EP05 Wardstone-longridge |
| SMC/RHB section: | 36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines |
| Catchment: | Wyre |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
| Grid ref: | SD 53115 48889 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: grass |
| Drop: | 35m |
| Col: | 155m SD533491  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 102 (1:25k) OL41W |
| Observations: | flat summit area |
| 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 66 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Via Nicky Nook and en route to Barnacre Moor | sje94 | 27/07/2024 |
| From Grizedale reservoir car park: Holme Wood Hill, Nicky Nook and Barnacre Moor. Recovery walk after neurosurgery. Windy, cool July day with some sunshine. | Lazylizzie | 06/07/2024 |
| Parked near Grizedale Bridge then along the bridleway, and on directly up the pasture to the top of the field with no fences or obstacles. Twenty minutes to do it all. A lovely area but misty today. | nickywood1 | 11/02/2024 |
| From Grizedale Bridge, along RoW & then up over pasture to high point. Rejoined RoW & on to Nicky Nook. | gerrybowes | 05/12/2023 |
| From Grizedale Bridge, on to Nicky Nook | Colin Crawford | 25/11/2023 |
| Holme Wood Hill and Nicky Nook from Grizedale Bridge. | summitter | 24/11/2022 |
| After supply teaching in Lancaster encouraging GCSE pupils to get to grips with algebra and the outdated confusing language of Dickens with Scrooge in a Christmas Carol. Year 9 much more enjoying Boys Dont Cry about a modern teenage pregnancy with real language and swear words! Breezy walk /jog to clear my mind over 3 tumps from the fell road which skirts the sweeping Bowland Fells and looking out west to moody clouds and low shafts of silvery sunlight over distant Blackpool with its famous Tower silhouetted. | Chris Pearson | 14/10/2022 |
| From Grizedale Bridge, ROW initially then up to top. On to Nicky Nook. | PeterD | 12/05/2022 |
| Holme Wood Hill > Nicky Nook from GR: SD 53569 49105 | ronaldo333 | 27/11/2021 |
| Holme Wood Hill > Nicky Nook from GR: SD 53569 49105 | Hippster | 27/11/2021 |
| Flushed a Woodcock, | Flatfield | 13/02/2021 |
| From the parking area at Grizedale Bridge. On to Nicky Nook. | jonglew | 01/01/2021 |
| Diversion from Lancashire Way walk. | Nick Caunt | 06/07/2020 |
| Parked at cp to the east. Easy pasture walk and on to Nicky Nook as others avoiding the rhododendrons. | Campbell Singer | 13/01/2020 |
| Good parking, then along good track. Summit on old wall line | cjo | 24/11/2019 |
| Parked at Grizedale bridge to East, then followed path, not all on a RoW. Testing out painful ankle,(OK) en route to Slaidburn YH. Summit rough grass dome, good views N on a damp grey day. Onto Nicky Nook. | Denise | 22/11/2019 |
| Excellent parking in a small carpark due east of the summit. Here a path starts heading directly towards a gated wall. This takes the path into the summit field which is fence and obstruction free. | moorsman | 08/03/2019 |
| Scorton - Nicky Nook - HOLME WOOD HILL - Barnacre Moor - Grizedale. Very flat summit area. | citygent | 18/02/2019 |
| Started from Grizedale Bridge. To the open top of this one, then on to Nickey Nook. From here on to Barnacre Moor | Wayne Mac | 14/02/2019 |
| Circuit from Grizedale Bridge - easy grassy slope up this one. Then back down to ffotpath heading north-west towards Fell End. | JOHNS | 04/01/2019 |
| From Grizedale Bridge on a dull,overcast afternoon-first easy saunter up Holme Wood Hill,then on to Barnacre Moor along good track beginning at side of reservoir.Think I parked next to JOHNS and saw him(them?) ascending this hill! With Oscar. | catman | 04/01/2019 |
| With Catman. | oscarrosie | 04/01/2019 |
| Parked at Grizedale Bridge and followed the right of way,before leaving to ascend easily to the pasture summit. Walk continued to Nicky Nook. With JT and HT. | Sprog | 07/10/2018 |
| easy path up but was charged at by a cow had to step back at last second and cow thundered past to a calf that i never even saw never mind got close to | colinfielding | 02/09/2018 |
| Weather fair. | MountainMac | 25/08/2018 |
| With Jo, from Grizedale Bridge: Holme Wood Hill and Nicky Nook. Weather; sunny at first with good visibility, but later misty conditions towards the coast prevailed thereby restricting views westward. | amblerbob | 11/01/2018 |
| On way back to grizedale bridge cp from Nicky Nook | Longwojo | 06/12/2017 |
| Easily up from CP near cattle grid. Along bridleway then up grassy slope to unremarkable top | Bramley | 25/08/2017 |
| up from car park straight after cattle grid. nice straight forward walk. | Andrew Pearson | 25/05/2017 |
| This and Barnacre Moor | bardolph | 06/04/2017 |
| Short walk from E, pleasant open grassy summit | RobertP | 05/02/2017 |
| From Grizedale Bridge CP. Solo. | ADT | 26/11/2016 |
| From car park to E | jimbloomer | 22/09/2016 |
| Sun and cloud, quite humid. Short and sweet. | Wycombe Wanderer | 17/07/2016 |
| From parking area near Grizedale Bridge. Easy stroll to Summit then on to Nicky Nook. | mart0797 | 29/01/2016 |
| From Grizedale Bridge with Evan, Sail, Danu, Coel & Alfie. Access might not be difficult but we got chased down the hill by an angry farmer! | Dangerous Dave | 24/01/2016 |
| Last hill on Nicky Nook triangle. | ngthack | 19/07/2015 |
| As others from parking spot to ENE at SD 53570 49097. Take bridleway initially then easy grassy terrain straight up to summit. | David Gradwell | 24/04/2015 |
| From E, car park | RHW | 21/03/2015 |
| Parked to ENE, easy walk to a very undistinguished flattish summit | Aye Jimmy | 07/09/2014 |
| Quite a bit of parking just north of the cattle grid. There is a track to the summit with no access issues. The summit area is reasonably level, 53118 48884 appears as high as any. | JohnStoneham | 24/08/2014 |
| Added in to a circuit of Nicky Nook. | Martin R | 06/04/2014 |
| From the road to the east - easy walk in a lovely area. | Alan Caine | 16/06/2013 |
| Easy bag after parking car to the NE. A P36 hill with a view towards Nicky Nook. Photo on Geograph. | Dugswell2 | 23/01/2012 |
| Rambling Ray | 20/09/2023 | |
| BrianMatthews | 19/08/2022 | |
| PaulOnFoot | 08/06/2022 | |
| mae | 09/12/2021 | |
| conanharrod | 01/03/2021 | |
| pwithnall | 10/01/2021 |