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Name: | Great Whernside |
Hill number: | 2781 |
Height: | 704m / 2310ft |
RHB Section: | 35B: The Central Pennines |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Yorkshire Dales - Southern Fells |
County/UA: | North Yorkshire |
Catchment: | Ouse (York), Catchment Boundaries, Wharfe |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Hewitt, Nuttall, Buxton & Lewis, Bridge, Clem (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,Hew,N,BL,Bg,Cm) |
Grid ref: | SE 00205 73912 |
Summit feature: | very large cairn |
Drop: | 288m |
Col: | 416.4m SD 7894 8319 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 98 (1:25k) OL30S |
Observations: | rock 3m S is highest visible ground but higher ground may lie under cairn; trig point (SE 00201 73905) and rock 4m E are lower |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 794 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Parked just past the cattle grid and went straight up and down in truly awful conditions! Lots of deep snow, mist and windy. Was great to be out though! | Nicky C | 13/02/2024 |
Parked at Tor Dike, and walked up to Buckden Pike. Then back down, over the road and up to Great Whernside. | simocity | 13/09/2023 |
Circular walk - from the excellent YHA Kettlewell - via Hag Dyke to Great Whernside (for my last English Hewitt) and Little Whernside with return via Tor Mere Top and Top Mere Road. | RobB | 18/07/2023 |
3rd of 6 hills on a 33km circular from Middlesmoor. From Meugher, passed between two gills then followed boundary to Stone Head Crags where i had a break. Easy from there to top. Continuation on ridge heading for Little Whernside... | Dazingdale | 28/05/2023 |
Tor Mere Top, Great Whernside | keithouk | 14/05/2023 |
Great Whernside and Buckden Pike from Kettlewell. Up by Hag Dyke to the trig at the top of Great Whernside, then north along the ridge, turning left along the Bridleway from Scar House and following it to the Coverdale / Kettlewell road at the top of the pass. Straight across and up the track by the fence to the ridge wall and then in a short distance to Tor Mere Top. Turned NW and followed the often boggy track by the wall to the Polish War Memorial and along the flagstones to Buckden Pike's trig and summit cairn. Down the track to Buckden and back along the Dales Way to Kettlewell. 27km with 800m ascent, taking me 7 hours. | silverwolf_alan | 07/05/2023 |
Christmas Eve walk. Revisit. Unfortunately in the cloud when I reached the trig but have enjoyed the views previously. /D | meltdiceburg | 24/12/2022 |
Dales 30 number 29. With Tony & John | LANGDALE | 17/10/2022 |
Climbed up from Kettlewell via Hag Dyke, walked along ridge to north and came back down to the road. Walked back to Kettle well along green lane. Easy to navigate on this beautiful day. Accompanied by MCW. I first climbed this in 1975 on my first Youth hosteling trip. | Woolly Hattie | 17/09/2022 |
Really hot day. Did Great Whernside + Buckden Pike from Kettlewell. | andrewr282 | 13/08/2022 |
Second time of hiking this one. Hiked to wild camp at the top. It was damp and windy so we took shelter by a wall, thankfully we were able to keep the views of angram | NCurtis | 04/08/2022 |
Took easy route from top road whilst up with gold DofE group. Did some geocaching near the top. Great views S and W | robphys | 05/07/2022 |
From Kettlewell: Buckden Pike, Tor Mere Top and Great Whernside. Blustery cool June day, but the thunderstorms that were forecast didn't materialise. | Lazylizzie | 25/06/2022 |
Scar House reservoir, crossed the dam and followed track past ruined village of Lodge and onto ancient footpath that contours below Little Whernside to the coll at SE012768, then up ridge and round to summit. Back same way to coll and then over Little Whernside and Dead Man's Hill. | Flatfield | 09/05/2022 |
Great and Little Whernside from Kettlewell, good walk but a bit boggy around the top of Little Whernside. Parking easy in the main car park of Kettlewell. | JazDisney | 07/05/2022 |
Galltywenallt | 05/05/2022 | |
With the Explorer Scouts, up from Kettlewell on the south side of Dowber Gill, north along the ridge, back along the bridleway to the top of Park Rash and then down from Tor Mere Top. Rather misty on the summit. 16.5km with 620m ascent in 5h 45m. | silveracorn_alan | 23/01/2022 |
Trig point not reached due to snow/boggy ground | Cessarine | 02/12/2021 |
Visited Dead Man's Hill, Little Whernside and Great Whernside during the fourth day of our circular walk around the Yorkshire Dales National Park from Braidley to Kettlewell. A stunning day, with superb visibility extending from the North York Moors to the Lake District. With Annette, Christine, Geoff and Steve. 17km with 630m ascent in 6 hours. | silveracorn_alan | 04/11/2021 |
Circular from Kettlewell, Great Whernside-Tor Mere Top-Busckden Pike, Buckden, Dales Way back to Kettlewell. | Dan Baddeley | 18/09/2021 |
Great Whernside and Buckden Pike from road pass in between. | Topographer57 | 31/08/2021 |
19 miles 3483ft walk. Start at Kettlewell, to Great Whernside, Little Whernside, Dead Mans Hill, Scar House Reservoir and Angram Reservoir, back over Great Whernside to Kettlewell. | stephenbuda | 20/08/2021 |
HardenC | 30/07/2021 | |
From kettlewell and back via top mere. Slight boggy section just after the scout hut. | Chriseast1 | 11/07/2021 |
Solo from road to the north. Good weather. Very enjoyable walk with a lot of wildlife about. | mike.hoult | 17/06/2021 |
Circular hike from Scar House taking in Little Whernside and topping on Great Whernside. Used the opportunity to practice some micro navigation finding the actual source of The Nidd and other physical features. Also found the wreck of a Wellington Bomber that crash landed in September 1942 on a night nav exercise. 
Nature notes: lots seen today but the curlew and lapwing were abundant and in fine voice. | higlett | 05/06/2021 |
Great Whernside, Buckden pike and Birks Fell | Ruth | 10/04/2021 |
A high level traverse of the Top of Nidderdale from Scar House Reservoir, visiting Great Haw, Dead Man's Hill, Little Whernside and Great Whernside. Return direct down to Angram Reservoir. A clear sunny day to the east, but low cloud to the west. Splendid remote lockdown hike! 25km with 720m ascent in 6h45m. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 20/03/2021 |
With Chris. Up Great Whernside from Kettlewell via Hagg Dyke, north along the ridge, descending to the top of Park Rash, then directly up to Tor Mere Top and along the ridge to the summit of Buckden Pike, then descent above Cray to Buckden. Back along the Dales Way to Kettlewell. A very snowy walk with deep drifts and a heavy snowstorm en route. 22.9km with 820m ascent in 7h50m. | silveracorn_alan | 02/01/2021 |
Cold November ascent from Kettlewell | Rockdoctor | 22/11/2020 |
Second half of the day's outing. Continued from car and did a circular route to take in both Great and Little Whernside | justin999 | 05/10/2020 |
A detour off Lady Anne's Way | PhilipChaston | 31/08/2020 |
From the cattle grid. Had intended to extend the walk but poor weather arriving. My final English Marilyn. | NormanW | 19/08/2020 |
Started from the high point on the Cam Gill Road and wandered up to Hem Gill Shaw. The ridge was then traversed to Sweet Hill before dropping down to look at a crashed bomber site. Then back by way of Hag Dyke to the car. | 3 kinnears | 06/07/2020 |
From Kettlewell solo gale force winds and no view leaving Buckden pike for another day | colinfielding | 11/06/2020 |
Walked from Kettlewell to summit of Great Whernside via Hag Dyke and back down Cam Head | CarlJones | 06/06/2020 |
Parked at the top of Park Rash (SD 985 757). Followed bridleway to ridge, then north along field boundary to Little Whernside, back along ridge to Great Whernside, back down to car at Park Rash. Headed off along track to old mine then out across tough country to Brown Haw. 25km with 600m ascent in 7hours. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 20/05/2020 |
Ascent from Lofthouse via Thrope Plantation, Lofthouse Moor, and Brown Ridge. Ascent of Great Haw via Woogill Moor. On to Dead Man’s Hill, via Carle Fell, and Little Whernside, Whernside, and Great Whernside. Follow parish boundary along Riggs Moor to Sandy gate. Descent via Straight Stean Beck, and along track in How Stean Beck to Armathwaite. On to Middlesmoor and back to Lofthouse. | raymooremanx | 08/02/2020 |
MC JC O. Climbed from high point on minor road to Kettlewell. Lowering cloud and thick mist on top. Very wet lower slopes. | Martin66 | 01/01/2020 |
Ascended from Kettlewell via Hag Dyke | danielmudd1982 | 29/12/2019 |
Good off-road parking at SD 9862 7572. Little Whernside first, then doubled back to here. Several Elmslies also bagged. | jonglew | 25/11/2019 |
Nutall route on a gloriously sunny day off work | Mark Sims | 20/09/2019 |
Nuttalls route. Heavy rain and strong winds meant I didn't really enjoy this one! | Gary Heath | 18/08/2019 |
From kettlewell - never did find the jacket I lost somewhere on the way up | Neilb | 13/08/2019 |
From Kettlewell | PaulGibbons | 29/06/2019 |
From Kettle well and then onto Buckden Pike. Down to Buckden and four miles of road back to Kettlewell. Hottest day of the year and the day of the Wharfedale 3Peaks. Swimming against the tide. | Longwojo | 29/06/2019 |
the first of 2 nuttalls today great whernside and buckden pike from the cattle gris at SD 98460 76349nice walk up to the summit back down to the van for a brew before heading off to buckden pike which was a bog fest all the way to the cross for the polish plain crash for the war | Darren-443 | 15/06/2019 |
From Grassington, via Providence Pot, then Hags Farm, return via Cam Head | MrChris1980 | 28/05/2019 |
Parked in Pateley Bridge and followed Nidderdale Way to Nabs. Bivvied overnight on Wig Stones then this was fourth of eight hills after Moss Drive and Meugher. Walk from Meugher to Sandy Gates and then onwards was hard work. | Wheelsy | 25/05/2019 |
With JW, MS and CS (previously CB). From car park, up Little Whernside and Great Whernside. Nice weather! | robertgn | 18/05/2019 |