| Name: | Great Castle How |
| Hill number: | 7943 |
| Height: | 498.2m / 1635ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2396 High Raise [High White Stones] |
| County/UA: | Westmorland and Furness |
| Topographical area: | EL03 Scafell-illgill |
| SMC/RHB section: | 34B: Lake District - Central & Western Fells |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Lake District - Central Fells |
| Catchment: | Leven (Ulverston) |
| Class: | Synge, Sub490-499m hill (Sy,s4) |
| Grid ref: | NY 30793 07835 |
| Summit feature: | outcrop |
| Drop: | 26.1m |
| Col: | 472.1m NY 3055 0771  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 90 (1:25k) OL6N OL7N |
| Survey: | obvious summit |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 211 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| 3 day hike and wild camps around the langdale fells Laura jay and flo great views over Grasmere and beyond | Lauralj84 | 19/04/2023 |
| Blea Rigg to Silver How | trimarc2 | 26/02/2023 |
| From Grasmere. 12 km, 650 m asc. Up by Easedale Tarn and the SW path under Blea Crag to Blea Rigg. E and SE along the ridge over Great Castle How, Castle How (Raw Pike), Little Castle How, Swinescar Pike, Lang How and Silver How. Back by Wray Gill and Allan Bank. Sunny, frosty. https://www.flickr.com/photos/samandjo/albums/72177720304916571 | SalmonJoe | 02/01/2023 |
| CJ BW | chrisj1965 | 16/09/2022 |
| Langdale Pikes - Pavey Ark via Jack's Rake, Langdale Pikes, High Raise & Blea Rigg | Barns150 | 15/09/2022 |
| On way from Silver How to Blea Rigg | Havenchris | 25/06/2022 |
| Parked in Grasmere then up Silver How with Eddie & Rick. Then onto Lang How, Swinescar Pike, Swinescar Pike NW Top, Little Castle How, Castle How (Raw Pike) and finally Great Castle How before contouring round to the path down to Easdale Tarn then back to Grasmere. | Dugswell2 | 20/12/2021 |
| With Luna. CW Loop, up Blea Rigg ridge & down Helm Crag ridge. From Red Bank Road car park Grasmere. | masmith | 25/09/2021 |
| Solo. On the way up to Blea Rigg. Warm and sunny. | Dangerous Dave | 20/09/2021 |
| Cracking little rocky summit, ascended after coming across from Lang How | signyred | 12/09/2021 |
| Nameless [Langdale Resort] > Hammer Scar > Dow Bank > Silver How > Lang How > Swinescar Pike > Swinescar Pike NW Top > Little Castle How > Great Castle How > Castle How (Raw Pike) from GR: NY 32620 05119 | ronaldo333 | 04/09/2021 |
| Nameless [Langdale Resort] > Hammer Scar > Dow Bank > Silver How > Lang How > Swinescar Pike > Swinescar Pike NW Top > Little Castle How > Great Castle How > Castle How (Raw Pike) from GR: NY 32620 05119 | Hippster | 04/09/2021 |
| 2 of 6 on 7.25 mile walk starting in grasmere car park. Got soaked on the cutting up through the high over grown ferns | The-Z-Man | 30/07/2021 |
| Ascent from Grasmere. Blue skies, mild and sunny in valley. Snow on upper fells. Cloud above all fells. | markm | 05/05/2021 |
| A wonderful walk along the interesting ridge between Grasmere and Great Langdale, locating the many Synges between Red Bank and Blea Rigg from High Close (NY 336 052), just space for a couple of cars if you are early! Summits visited included Silver How, Lang How, Swinescar Pike, Little Castle How, Great Castle How, Castle How (Raw Pike), Blea Rigg and Whitegill Crag. A splendid day with snow patches and classic views of the major Lakeland peaks clad in snow! 15.6km with 800m ascent in 5h30m. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 07/12/2020 |
| From Little Langdale Pass, Oakhowe Crag, Harry Place, Silver How, Lang How, Swinescar Pike, Little Castle Howe, Castle Howe, Great Castle Howe, Whitegill Crag, Stickle Tarn, Pike Howe. Descent of N ridge of Oakhowe Crag not recommended - unavoidable band of snail pace FIGHT through a jungle of Juniper. | Isbjorn | 02/10/2020 |
| Back in the lakes, circular walk with Em from Grasmere | holtsd | 09/07/2020 |
| Revisit with Pete | Dave Geere | 17/11/2019 |
| With Alfie. Surprised this is only my second time up on this summit. | Dangerous Dave | 23/03/2019 |
| From New Dungeon Ghyll, Pike Howe, over to Stickle Tarn, Tarn Crag, Whitegill Crag, Blea Rigg, Great Castle How, Castle How Raw Pike, Little Castle How,Swinescar Pike and Lang How. A nice day keeping away from the half term crowds. And another chapter of Birketts Finished. | nickywood1 | 23/02/2019 |
| Went up from Grasmere and the path to Easeale Tarn, followed the path alongside the Tarn until a path branched off left at a cairn and took that to the summit of Blea Rigg. Followed path along the ridge and diverted to this top and Little Castle How. From there followed the path down past Blindtarn Moss back to Grasmere | Wayne Mac | 05/01/2019 |
| Climbed up after placing controls at Lakes 5 Days | JK | 28/07/2018 |
| From the YHA | Lykewake42 | 15/04/2018 |
| KeithByTheC | 16/11/2017 | |
| With NB from Grasmere. | Frank | 25/10/2017 |
| Grassmere - Easdale Tarn - Blea Rigg - Silver How - Grassmere. Collected all tops along the way. Fine weather. With FR | Bheinn | 25/10/2017 |
| Solo | simon and co | 12/10/2017 |
| On way to Blea Rigg . | Haygalzer | 02/05/2017 |
| From Raw Pike, on to Whitegill Crag. | Wycombe Wanderer | 08/04/2017 |
| 01/04/2017 From Grasmere Silver How Blea Crag Pavey Ark Harrison Stickle Pike of Stickle ❤️ Loft Cragg Thunacar Knott Sergeant Man Tarn Crag 20.2 miles 41,372 steps 303 floors | Tobo1969 | 01/04/2017 |
| Birthday walk starting from Millbeck Farm. Smoky, Dave, Tony and I walked up to Blea Rigg via Whitegill Ravine then on to Silver How via Great Castle How, Raw Pike, Little Castle How, Swinescar Pike, and Lang How. Descended to Chapel Stile via Megs Gill path. Cold but dry, intermittent mist and low crowd all day. | Skip | 22/01/2017 |
| Popped up to Easedale Tarnwith Rick and Jen so Jen could do her bird watch thing, Brian came along and Brian, me and Rick went up to the ridge and played about with the tops at Castle How and back to Blea Rigg for fodder. Rick left us for home duties and me and Brian bumbled along to Sergeant Man, Codale Head and down through Tarn Crags. Down to Sour Milk Gill and back to Lankrigg where we had parked. Mist and mizzle all day but did pop out of it on Sergeant Man, wet day out but a great post birthday walk. 3 more Wainwrights and a few Birketts too. | Mark T | 17/01/2017 |
| With Mark T and Brian K. After tarn visit in BTO survey. Onward SE circuit around the fells. | nordicstar | 17/01/2017 |
| R Rob Trev | Richard Tait | 05/01/2017 |
| Hostel to hostel walking - Tarn How, grasmere to YHA Borrowdale. With GFE | Fionalevey | 21/09/2016 |
| From Grasmere YH. Tarn Crag, Belles Knott, Whitegill Crag, Blea Rigg, Great Castle How, Castle How, Little Castle How, Raw Pike, Swinescar Pike, Lang How, Silver How. Non stop raining. Did not see a thing. Soaked. | ijpowell | 19/08/2016 |
| with Andy 4th new hill of the day in poor weather | colinfielding | 02/08/2016 |
| Silver How to Blea Rigg ridge with Colin. | Andrew Pearson | 02/08/2016 |
| From Grasmere (NY 33597 07331) - Easedale Tarn - Sergeant Man - High Raise - Low White Stones - Codale Head - Blea Rigg - Great Castle How - Castle How [Raw Pike] - Little Castle How - Swinescar Pike - Lang How - Silver How. | david230201 | 31/07/2016 |
| ACW Round of helm crag, gibson knott, steel fell, calf crag, tarn crag, belles knott, blea crag, castle how, great castle how, little castle how, swinescar pike, lang how, silver how, from cp in grasmere. | robertphillips | 23/07/2016 |
| 8th of the day in an anticlockwise round. | bolton | 07/06/2016 |
| Included in a walk along the ridges W. of Grasmere. Red Bank Road Car Park in Grasmere (£7 for 10hrs) Permissive path through grounds of Lancrigg Hotel to Helm Crag Continued along ridges, finishing on Silver How, bagging a total of 7W, 3B & 3Sy. (PM) | gerrybowes | 07/06/2016 |
| On Wainwright's Way walk. | Nick Caunt | 18/05/2016 |
| From YHA Grasmere on a round or Wainwrights, Birketts and Synges circumnavigating Easdale Tarn. This the sixth of 11 hills. | jonglew | 29/02/2016 |
| On circular From Langdale to Sergeant Man, Codale Head, and back to Elterwater via Blea Rigg and Castle How tops with A,C, M &N. | PeterD | 28/12/2015 |
| Parked in Grasmere (paid for parking). Silver Howe - Lang How - Swinescar Pike - Little Castle How - Castle How - Great Castle How - Blea Rigg - Butherlyp Howe. | Jacqdaw | 25/09/2015 |
| Foot Tarn camp site- silver How- lang How- Swinescar Pike - little Castle How - raw Pike- gt Castle How- Blea Rigg - Whitegill Crag - New Dungeon Ghyll. Wainright round 2 plus a Few Synges | benarbia_8 | 12/08/2015 |
| With Andy. Blea Rigg and four Synges from Grasmere | Crib Goch | 27/06/2015 |
| Lovely evening walk in perfect conditions. | pwithnall | 07/06/2015 |
| Wonderful circular walk out of Grasmere Lost the trail up the 1st climb but after that it was a fantastic 9.5 mile walk capped off with a wonderful climb up to Sergaent Man Lee's best decent ever and long may it continue | Tobo1969 | 30/05/2015 |