Hills of Britain and Ireland
OS Map of Ward's Stone
Height: 562m / 1845ft • Prominence: 401m / 1316ft • Summit : small cairn on peat hag • Trip reports (hill-bagging)
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19-Mar-25 • Dugswell2 • flickr
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2811 Ward's Stone
Jubilee Tower, Grit Fell, Ward's Stone trig, Ward's Stone summit & then Mallowdale Pike trig before descending to the Queen's Chair with its pivot. Then walked back to Grit Fell before walking down to Clougha Pike before taking a direct moorland route back to Jubilee Tower with Jill Robertson. Name:Ward's Stone Hill number:2811 Height:562.4m / 1845ft County/UA:Lancashire Topographical area:EP05 Wardstone-longridge SMC/RHB section:36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines Catchment:Lune, Catchment Boundaries, Wyre Class list:Marilyn, Hump, Dodd (500-599m), Dewey, Clem Grid ref:SD 59195 58738 Summit feature:small cairn on peat hag Drop:400.9m Col:161.5m SD 7882 6444 Observations:measured to be 563.0m; cairn is 60m W of easterly trig point
19-Mar-25 • Dugswell2 • flickr
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Shooting Hut below Ward's Stone
Fairly recent addition to the landscape, located roughly half a mile to the north west of Ward's Stone - highest point in Bowland. This structure is relatively palatial compared to other shooting lodges in the vicinity
30-Apr-24 • Walruscharmer • flickr
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The Northern Part of the Forest of Bowland
Near Tarnbrook.
11-Jan-24 • Paul Austin Murphy • flickr
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OS Map
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Photos
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The other photos have been geo-tagged as on or around the summit. For less busy mountains, it can be a little hit and miss.
2811 Ward's Stone a
19-Mar-25 • Dugswell2 • flickr
wardsstonewalk lancashire england wardsstone p4009 marilyn hump dodd dewey clem 54398394866
2811 Ward's Stone
Jubilee Tower, Grit Fell, Ward's Stone trig, Ward's Stone summit & then Mallowdale Pike trig before descending to the Queen's Chair with its pivot. Then walked back to Grit Fell before walking down to Clougha Pike before taking a direct moorland route back to Jubilee Tower with Jill Robertson. Name:Ward's Stone Hill number:2811 Height:562.4m / 1845ft County/UA:Lancashire Topographical area:EP05 Wardstone-longridge SMC/RHB section:36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines Catchment:Lune, Catchment Boundaries, Wyre Class list:Marilyn, Hump, Dodd (500-599m), Dewey, Clem Grid ref:SD 59195 58738 Summit feature:small cairn on peat hag Drop:400.9m Col:161.5m SD 7882 6444 Observations:measured to be 563.0m; cairn is 60m W of easterly trig point
19-Mar-25 • Dugswell2 • flickr
wardsstonewalk lancashire england wardsstone p4009 marilyn hump dodd dewey clem 54397669515
Shooting Hut below Ward's Stone
Fairly recent addition to the landscape, located roughly half a mile to the north west of Ward's Stone - highest point in Bowland. This structure is relatively palatial compared to other shooting lodges in the vicinity
30-Apr-24 • Walruscharmer • flickr
shootinghut shooterstrack moorland openaccess bowland lancashire england 53698568391
The Northern Part of the Forest of Bowland
Near Tarnbrook.
11-Jan-24 • Paul Austin Murphy • flickr
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Flock Following the Track
Tarnbrook, Forest of Bowland.
11-Jan-24 • Paul Austin Murphy • flickr
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Boundary Wall near Grey Crag
Boundary wall on a watershed, in Western Bowland
27-Mar-23 • Walruscharmer • flickr
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Eastern Trig Point on Ward's Stone
There are two trig points on Ward's Stone, roughly one kilometre apart. This dull battleship lump of concrete is the less dramatic of the two, although it is one metre superior in altitude and thus takes the prize as highest point in Bowland - 1,841 ft.
27-Mar-23 • Walruscharmer • flickr
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Ward's Stone
Lump of raw gritstone rock called Ward's Stone - lending its name to the flat summit that stretches for roughly a kilometre, and is the highest point of Bowland
27-Mar-23 • Walruscharmer • flickr
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Weather Station on Ward's Stone
This weather station is a comparatively new addition to the furnishings scattered upon Ward's Stone - the highest point on Bowland. In the distance is the western of two trig points that adorn this summit, a kilometre apart
27-Mar-23 • Walruscharmer • flickr
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2811 Ward's Stone
Jubilee Tower, Grit Fell, Ward's Stone trig, Ward's Stone summit & then Mallowdale Pike trig before descending to the Queen's Chair with its pivot. Then followed the boundary fence/wall over to UU Road before following it back to Tarnbrook. Then road walk back to Jubilee Tower. Name:Ward's Stone Hill number:2811 Height:562.4m / 1845ft RHB Section:36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines County/UA:Lancashire (CoU) Hill area:Forest of Bowland Catchment:Lune, Catchment Boundaries, Wyre Class:Marilyn, Hump, Dodd (500-599m), Dewey, Clem Grid ref:SD 59195 58738 Summit feature:small cairn on peat hag Drop:400.9m Col:161.5m SD 7882 6444 OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 102 (1:25k) OL41W Observations:measured to be 563.0m; cairn is 60m W of easterly trig point
13-Feb-23 • Dugswell2 • flickr
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2811 Ward's Stone a
13-Feb-23 • Dugswell2 • flickr
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Pivot: Ward's Stone, Boulder NNE Of The Queen's Chair
PIVOT: PIVOT BOULDER TO THE NNE OF THE QUEEN'S CHAIR, 1895 1:10,560 map, levelled at 1739.7ft ODL. (ODN 530.2606m, AGL 0.4m).
13-Feb-23 • Dugswell2 • flickr
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2811 Ward's Stone
Like Hitchcock's "The Birds" with Gulls attacking you on wet moorland as you do a trip to include Tarnbrook village. Name:Ward's Stone Hill number:2811 Height:563m / 1847ft Area:36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines Class:Ma,5 Grid ref:SD 59195 58738 Summit feature:small cairn on peat hag Drop:395m Col:168m SD791643
05-Apr-14 • Dugswell2 • flickr
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Videos
10 mile fell run, aprx 1800ft elevation up Clougha Pike, Grit fell and Ward's Stone going anticlockwise from Quernmore carpark ...
Walking in the Trough of Bowland on a very wet day.
10.52 miles, 1777 ft elevation of solo fell run on the Bowland fells up Clougha Pike, Grit Fell and Ward's Stone. I also ran past ...
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.