Great Calva

Overview
Height: 2,265 Feet - 690 Metres
Grid Ref: NY 291 311
Area: Northern
Ordnance Survey: OL4
Group: N/NOS
Wainwright Guidebook: Five

Most regular visitors to Lakeland will be familiar with the outline of Great Calva even though they may never in their wanderings have been within miles of it: because its symmetrical pyramid neatly fills in the head of the valley opening south between the Skiddaw and Blencathra massifs and its conspicuously seen from many points in the busy road approaching Keswick from Grasmere.

 

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Great Calva.

Great Calva summit cairn.

Great Calva summit cairn.

 

There are 7 walks to choose from including Great Calva

Walking the Birketts, Great Calva

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12th October 2019
ASCENT: 1,705 Feet - 520 Metres
MILES: 7.5
BIRKETTS: 3, Great Calva - Little Calva - White Hause
ROUTE: Peter House Farm - Cumbrian Way - Dash Falls - Cumbrian Way - Candleseaves Bog - Dead Beck - South Flank of Great Galva - Great Calva - Little Calva - White Hause - Dash Farm - Dash Beck - Cumbrian Way - Peter House Farm
 

Walking the Wainwrights in 30 Walks - Walk 8 The Back O'Skiddaw Fells

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3rd April 2016
ASCENT: 3,617 Feet - 1,103 Meters
MILES: 14.3
WAINWRIGHTS: 8, Longlands Fell - Brae Fell - Great Sca Fell - Knott - Great Calva - Meal Fell - Great Cock Up - Binsey
ROUTE: Over Water - Lowthwaite - Longlands - Longlands Fell - Top of Charleton Gill - Brae Fell - Little Sca Fell - Great Sca Fell - Knott - Top of Wiley Gill - Great Calva - Top of Wiley Gill - Frozen Fell - Meal Fell - Great Cockup - Orthwaite Bank - Orthwaite - Overwater Hall - Binsey - Over Water
 

The Harry Griffin 2,000 footers Walk 15 -The 'Back O' Skiddaw'

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6th June 2015
ASCENT: 3,114 Feet - 950 Metres
MILES: 14.5
SUMMITS OVER 2,000 Ft: Carrock Fell - High Pike - Great Lingy Hill (NY 310 339) - Great Lingy Hill (NY 303 338) - Great Sca Fell - Little Sca Fell - Knott - Coomb Height - Great Calva
ROUTE: Mosedale - Carrock Fell Mine Road - Round Knott - Carrock Fell - Drygill Head - High Pike (Caldbeck) - Great Lingy Hill - Top of Roughton Gill - Great Sca Fell - Little Sca Fell - Great Sca Fell - Knott - Coomb Height - Top of Wiley Gill - Great Calva - River Caldew - Cumbrian Way - Carrock Fel Mine Road - Mosedale
 

The Uldale Fells

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9th August 2013
ASCENT: 2,401 Feet, 732 Meters
MILES: 11.5
WAINWRIGHTS: 5 Great Calva – Knott – Great Sca Fell – Brae Fell – Longlands Fell
ROUTE: Peter House Farm – Cumbrian Way – Dash Falls – Little Calva – Great Calva – Top Of Hause Gill – Knott – Great Ska Fell – Little Sca Fell – Brae Fell – Broad Moss – Longlands Fell – Longlands – Lowthwaite – Orthwaite – Peter House Farm
 

The Old Crown Round

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27th April 2013
ASCENT: 7,204 Feet  2,195 Metres
MILES: 25.2
WAINWRIGHTS: 9, Carrock Fell – Bowscale Fell – Bannerdale Crags – Blencathra – Mungrisdale Common – Skiddaw – Great Calva – Knott – High Pike
ROUTE: Hesket Newmarket – Carrock Beck Ford – Carrock Fell – Mosedale – Bowscale Fell – Bannerdale Crags – Foul Crags – Blencathra – Mungrisdale Common – The Stake – Skiddaw House – Sale How – Skiddaw – Blake Hill – Hare Crag – Dash Beck – Great Calva – Top of Hause Gill – Knott – Great Lingy Hill – Iron Crag – High Pike – Low Pike – How Beck – Wood Hall – Hesket Newmarket
 

Blencathra via the Hall’s Fell Ridge

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12th January 2012
ASCENT: 3,674 Feet, 1,120 Meters
MILES: 10.5
WAINWRIGHTS: 3, Blencathra, Mungrisdale Common & Great Calva
ROUTE: Threlkeld – Hall’s Fell Ridge – Blencathra – Mungrisdale Common – River Caldew – Great Calva – Skiddaw House – Blencathra Centre – Threlkeld
 

The Back O’ Skidda

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26th March 2011
ASCENT: 4,153 Feet,  1,266 Meters
MILES: 11.4
WAINWRIGHTS: 7, Bakestall, Great Calva, Knott, Great Sca Fell, Meal Fell, Brae Fell & Great Cockup
ROUTE:  
 

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