Hills of Britain and Ireland
OS Map of Black Combe
Height: 600m / 1969ft • Prominence: 362m / 1188ft • Summit : ground on W side of shelter 8m W of trig point • Trip reports (hill-bagging)
On Top of Black Combe
This was the least misty moments of the entire period of being on Black Combe. It's also looking back at another trig point (or cairn) on the top of a subsidiary hill of Black Combe. In other words, that's not the top of Black Combe, which I hadn't quite reached when I took this photo. The flat land below is Silecroft and/or Whitbeck.
18-Feb-24 • Paul Austin Murphy • flickr
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On Top of Black Combe
This was the least misty moments of the entire period of being on Black Combe. It's also looking back at another trig point (or cairn) on the top of a subsidiary hill of Black Combe. In other words, that's not the top of Black Combe, which I hadn't quite reached when I took this photo. The flat land below is Silecroft and/or Whitbeck.
18-Feb-24 • Paul Austin Murphy • flickr
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Mist Near the Top of Black Combe
This video is 23 seconds long.
18-Feb-24 • Paul Austin Murphy • flickr
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Duddon Estuary seen from Black Combe, Lake District National Park near Millom, Cumbria, UK
This isn't an area I know well, but that's one of the attractions of Black Combe. Reaching 600 m asl at the south-west corner of the Lake District National Park, the fell is isolated 16 km from higher ground but only 6.5 km from the Irish Sea. That means it offers excellent, uninterrupted views like this, from a very different viewpoint than the core Lakeland fells. On the far side of the marshy mouth of the River Duddon, Kirkby-in-Furness is 9.6 km away, in shadow at the far right of the image. From there, the Cumbrian Coast railway line is perfectly straight as it crosses the coastal plain, and the width of this photo, to Foxfield behind the second sheep from the left. The curving shore between that sheep and its leftward neighbour is 7.3 km away on the approach to the Foxfield Viaduct across the Duddon. Again on the left, the first shadowed hill is Great Burney (298 m), 12.6 km away at the top of Subberthwaite Common, between Broughton in Furness (near side) and the southern tip of Coniston Water (beyond). It's just inside the boundary of the Lake District National Park; to the right of the sunlit valley and Grizebeck village (10.3 km from here), both bisected by the A5092 main road, Lowick High Common is definitely outside the Park, as emphasised by the quarry and wind turbines. The 334 m top of Kirkby Moor (or at least the part of the moor known as Lowick High Common, in the middle of this view) is 12.5 km away in shadow to the left of, yes, Kirkby Moor Windfarm. The huge hole on the near side is Kirkby Slate Quarries; smaller historical scars cover much of the hill. Farther hills are indistinct in this weather and relatively anonymous, but the steep slope at the far left of the horizon is the southern end of East Baugh Fell, 61 km away in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, where the summit plateau drops from 678 m at Tarn Rigg Hill to 200-210 m in Garsdale. About 15 km further in that direction, one would be in Swaledale; the foreground sheep are members of that named breed. Behind the windfarm, the distinctive profile of Ingleborough (723 m) is on the horizon, 61.6 km away.
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On Black Combe - Lakeland Skyline
Mamiya 6MF, Ektachrome E100SW, digitised by photographing the original 60mm transparency on a light pad; tethered capture in Lightroom. Black Combe is a hill at the southwestern extremity of the English Lake District; an invigorating ascent topped by a first-class view. Wikipedia: "The view from Black Combe is unique, a result of its isolated position to the south and west of the main Lake District fells. William Wordsworth claimed that "the amplest range of unobstructed prospect may be seen that British ground commands." "
16-Apr-98 • Ed Fulton • flickr
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Videos
Top of Black Combe a look around with a Drone , Small arrow to be found.
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A rambling ramble over Black Combe, near Millom, Cumbria, UK, on Easter Monday 2021.
Notes
- Data: Database of British and Irish Hills v18.2
- Maps: We use OS mapping for England, Scotland, Wales, and the Isle of Man. Sadly, Channel Islands, Northern (OSNI) and Southern Ireland (OSI) mapping isn't available online, so we use Openstreetmap.