Walk Route Map c300 Crag Hill and Great Coum from Dent

Walk c300 Crag Hill and Great Coum from Dent

High moorland views

Vital Statistics:

Length:	9mls (14.5km)
Ascent:	19,112ft (583m)
Time:	5¼hrs
Grade:

Map with easy-to-follow route details for walk c300 Crag Hill and Great Coum from Dent pdf

Route outline for walk c300:

Dent - Flinter Gill - Crag Hill (Great Coum) - Great Coum - Lancashire County Stone - Blea Gills - Nun House Outrake - The Dales Way - River Dee - Dent

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Points of Interest/Notes on this walk:

The County Stone (a large boulder built into a wall junction) 800m south of the summit of Great Coum marks the NE tip of the county of Lancashire.

Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:

1
English
Mountain

0
Wainwrights

1
English
Nuttall

0
English
Deweys

0
Wainwright
Outlying Fells

1
Marilyn

1
Bridget

Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:

The highest point of this walk is Great Coum at 687m (2254ft). Great Coum is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (111th highest in England, 187th highest in England & Wales)

Great Coum is also known as an English Nuttall (146th highest in England, 245th highest in England & Wales) and an English Marilyn (35th highest in England, 619th highest in the UK).

Completing this walk will also take you to the top of Crag Hill (Great Coum) at 682m (2238ft). Crag Hill (Great Coum) is known as an English Bridget. The summit of Crag Hill (Great Coum) is marked by an Ordnance Survey Trig Point.

National Trails & Long Paths included on this walk:

Part of this walk follows a section of The Dales Way, a 130km (81 miles) linear footpath connecting Ilkley in West Yorkshire, England with Bowness-On-Windermere in Cumbria, England. The Dales Way is waymarked by named posts. For more walks that include a section of this trail see The Dales Way.

You can find more walks near this one on these unique free-to-access Interactive Walk Planning Maps: (click/TAP to select)

The Yorkshire Dales National Park

1:25,000 scale OS Explorer Map (the ones with orange/yellow covers):

OL2 Yorkshire Dales - Southern & Western areas

1:50,000 scale OS Landranger Map (the ones with pink/magenta covers):

98 Wensleydale & Upper Wharfedale

Some Photos and Pictures from Walk c300 Crag Hill and Great Coum from Dent

In no particular order . . .

Unusual tree on the track beside Flinter Gill near Dent

Photo: Steve Stock (1)

Great Coum summit cairn

Photo: Steve Stock (3)

Great Coum summit cairn

Photo: Christine Shepherd (72)

Ingleborough (in the distance left) and Green Hill (Gragareth) (foreground right) from Great Coum

Photo: Neil Milling (7)

Walk c300 Crag Hill and Great Coum from Dent - County Stone, marking the north east tip of Lancashire, located 750m due south of the summit of Great Coum

County Stone, marking the north east tip of Lancashire, located 750m due south of the summit of Great Coum

Photo: Steve Stock (4)

Trig point on the summit of Crag Hill

Photo: Steve Stock (2)

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