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| Name: | Flinty Fell |
| Hill number: | 2767 |
| Height: | 614.6m / 2016ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2714 Burnhope Seat |
| RHB Section: | 35A: The Northern Pennines |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | North Pennines - Eastern Fells |
| County/UA: | Westmorland and Furness |
| Catchment: | Tyne (Newcastle) |
| Class: | Simm, Hewitt, Nuttall, Buxton & Lewis, Bridge (Tu,Sim,Hew,N,BL,Bg) |
| Grid ref: | NY 77094 41978 |
| Summit feature: | no feature |
| Drop: | 43m |
| Col: | 572m NY784418  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 86 87 (1:25k) OL31W |
| Observations: | summit 285m N at NY 77057 42259 is 0.2m lower |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 362 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Parked near 599m spot height space a few metres from a gate. Revisit to bag the new featureless summit. | webmaster | 16/03/2024 |
| Footpath through the wood, visited all areas. | robertphillips | 10/09/2023 |
| Pretty rough bag from Nenthead mines CP. Followed sign for Flinty Fell then plodded across the fell with no path in sight but managed to visit both tops. Deciding we had had enough of the moor bailed to the road and walked down to Ashgill Force. Back to the car following sign to “Nenthead via Seldom Seen”. With R. | Dan Baddeley | 04/06/2023 |
| From Nent Head - with GW - | JohnIvor | 17/05/2023 |
| From the road, very indistinct unmarked summit. Probably the most underwhelming Nuttall so far, though there are good views of Cross Fell and Great Dunn Fell. Back through the wood. | Lazylizzie | 24/08/2022 |
| Four tops in three short walks. First Round Hill from Tynehead road end, easy going. Then drove round to Flinty Fell from North, located unmarked summit with OS Locate. Then round to do Burnhope Seat and Dead Stones via the ski tow. This last also easy going but it would have been a different matter after a wet spell I suspect. | dickscroop | 07/07/2022 |
| From the road, very indistinct unmarked “summit” | Jim T | 03/07/2022 |
| Easy bag from road. Both tops | Longwojo | 18/06/2022 |
| Ascent from Nenthead by the Nuttalls' route, visiting both tops, then ROW though wood to road and on to Alston Moor. | milimana | 07/05/2022 |
| From footpath to NW. This time visited the new summit as well as original summit. | RobertP | 09/04/2022 |
| My final summit on day 4 of a 6 day backpack. When I had read the Nuttalls book, my expectations of this hill were rather limited. I loved the hill as it provided great views and I camped on the summit as the moss was very dry indeed. A very comfortable night! | morgs4mountains | 24/03/2022 |
| Very easy walk from Nenthead. Carried on to Ashgill, up the skiing to Burnhope Seat. And horrible walk along to Dead Stones, Nag's Head, Knoutberrry Hill and back to Nenthead. Take gaiters next time! 12.5m all round. | NCurtis | 26/02/2022 |
| Revisit for the trig block - revisited main summit, then found it on the N summit | RHW | 14/11/2021 |
| From Nenthead | emily | 17/09/2021 |
| The third hill on a 93km walk from Gateshead to Alston. | Christo1979 | 05/09/2021 |
| The hill might be easy, but parking is no so easy. Walls and fences deter an ascent along the E boundary of the woods. The grass verges are narrow, have deep veg and steep/deep ditches. The only ‘safe’ parking was in a passing place (challenging social acceptability) just below the PF signpost. The start of the FP into the woods was very wet in spite of a week of sunshine, but then a nice green passage, over a stile and through some old spoil heaps. | Isbjorn | 28/08/2021 |
| ticked both old summit location and updated position - underwhelming! Only worth visiting for purely bagging reasons! | wainwrighteer | 18/07/2021 |
| By MTB | Pete Pozman | 02/06/2021 |
| Easy from NW despite big trot at end | conanharrod | 29/05/2021 |
| A 22 kilometre hike from Killhope Cross via Nag's Head, Dead Stones, the south end of Perry's Dam, Flinty Fell, Nenthead, Dykeheads, The Dodd, Coalcleugh, Shivery Hill, Killhope Law and the county boundary back to Killhope Cross. | Clach Liath | 16/04/2021 |
| From Nenthead lead mines, up the track to quarry at the North, thn tried to follow the path marked on the map from South of the summit that leads ENE, but even with a GPS on it it was difficult to spot, many grouse posts in various directions, so just generally followed the right direction to end up back at the junction with the main mine track, back down to the car for lunch and then off up to the Dodd. | JulieB | 27/11/2020 |
| A short stroll from the road. With B and R. | jenx | 09/11/2020 |
| Revisit using Nuttalls' route from Nenthead to find revised summit following LIDAR revision. New top could be anywhere really on a large area of flat grass and moss, just north of the quarry. I found the point identified by LIDAR but it looked no higher or lower than anything else within 100 yards. The old summit on a long grassed over spoil mound looked higher. | Crib Goch | 11/10/2020 |
| Solo | Madjonny | 21/09/2020 |
| Cheeky bag from the road on the way home. | maclrc | 15/09/2020 |
| First Nuttall of the day, joined by Jake. Nice easy walk from the road. Jake enjoyed dropping stones down the mine to see how deep it was. | simocity | 31/08/2020 |
| 1st Nuttall of the day with my Dad. | Jake Simpson | 31/08/2020 |
| From summit of road. No cairn at the top of the spoil heap. No feature at highest natural ground either. Back via forest ROW. When the Sitka Spruce is harvested (soon?), can we have some native broadleaves? | Peter_W_Mitchell | 06/08/2020 |
| Followed path through the conifers to the summit on a misty morning. | JohnW | 01/08/2020 |
| Cowshill to Middlehope Moor via High Greenfield. Along county boundary to Stangend Rigg to Killhope Law. Continue along county boundary Black Hill Quarries to The Dodd. Return to public footpath (Isaac’s Tea Trail) and descent to Dykeheads and Nenthead. Out to Nenthead Lead Mine and ascent via public footpath to Flinty Fell. Descent to track and follow track to Perry Dam. Ascent to Nag’s Head and on to Dead Stones. Return to Cowshill via Lamb’s Head, Highwatch Currick and Cleugh Head. | raymooremanx | 11/07/2020 |
| with Anthony Falkenburg | vegibagger | 26/05/2020 |
| Footpath through wood. Also visited natural highpoint. | PGCE | 16/05/2020 |
| Dusk ascent from 591, light rain. Contender for easiest and least exciting Nuttall. | Wycombe Wanderer | 17/01/2020 |
| From Middle Fell head for Flinty Fell, descend to Showside then to the road and back to the start. | smocks and denims | 19/12/2019 |
| Parked by start of PF to west. | mart0797 | 25/07/2019 |
| Haggs Bank campsite along Isaac's Tea Trail to Nenthead. Up through Dowgang Hush and followed walls to NY 771 424 then direct to summit. | dgresty | 20/06/2019 |
| From Nenthead along quarry road. Foggy | Gary Heath | 06/04/2019 |
| Took the easy path through the trees from NY7661042399 with Andy snowing at the top | colinfielding | 08/03/2019 |
| Quick up and down from the road in the wind and snow. Interesting top. With Colin. | Andrew Pearson | 08/03/2019 |
| From NY 7662 4238, RoW through woodland then across open fell - peat hags - to the South Top (an Elmslie). Returning over the main top, that appears to be a spoil heap. | jonglew | 06/03/2019 |
| revisit to visit local Elmslies | cjo | 17/02/2019 |
| Planned to do Burnhope Seat circuit as per Nuttalls, but high winds diverted us to coffee shop then this less strenuous hill. We still got wet, though. | IanHHill | 03/11/2018 |
| Went through the contour ring | Alan Moore | 24/09/2018 |
| Flinty Fell > Flinty Fell South Summit > Nunnery Hill from GR: NY 76567 42378 | ronaldo333 | 19/08/2018 |
| Flinty Fell > Flinty Fell South Summit > Nunnery Hill from GR: NY 76567 42378 | Hippster | 19/08/2018 |
| From Nenthead mine car park, returned via road, | Slash3 | 04/08/2018 |
| From top of Ashgill Wood. | Winterfloodian | 17/07/2018 |
| On Way to do Pennine Way, with Martin, Robert and Ian | nickywood1 | 13/07/2018 |
| With SR on way home. | Frank | 01/07/2018 |
| 10 mile walk from Ashgill Bridge, down to lovely waterfall then along river S. Tyne to Tynehead farm, took footpath up then ascended Burnhope Seat to road then through ski tows to featureless summit and after trig, followed ridge to Dead Stones then along to Nags Head rise, descended to Perrys dam and picked up quarry track, rough route across to Flinty Fell, from there headed back to quarry track then barely used footpath back to Ashgill Bridge. Great sunny day with breeze and great views, at the moment very easy to walk because all bogs are dry, would hate to do this walk after a lot of rain. | DanTrig | 29/06/2018 |