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Great Carrs

Overview

Height:	2,558 Feet - 780 Metres
Grid Ref:	NY 271 009
Area:	Southern
Group:	S/CON
Ordnance Survey:	OL6
Wainwright Guidebook:	Four
	Curved like a scythe, the shapely ridge springing form the fields of Little Langdale to the crest of Rough Crags and climbing gradually thence along the grassy rim of Wet Side Edge to a lofty altitude between deep valleys, has little to arouse interest until the mild excitement of boundary stairway skirting the edge of crags promise better things ahead.

Map and Photo Gallery

Great Carrs seen over the Top of Broad Slack with the Scafells, Crinkle Crags and Bow Fell in the distance.

Swirl How, Brim Fell, Coniston Old Man and Dow Crag from Great Carrs.

Halifax Bomber Memorial, Great Carrs.

The Memorial of the British Halifax Mk V Bomber which crashed here after hitting the steep crags over Broad Slack during bad weather in October 1944 All eight crew members including seven Canadians and one Scotsman the youngest of which was just nineteen years of age died instantly.

The undercarriage still remains along side the Memorial parts of which still bear the part numbers as clear as if you were looking at them on the shelf whereas one of the Rolls Royce Merlin engines was recovered and remains at the Ruskin Museum in Coniston.

Great Carrs seen over the Top of Broad Slack.

Great Carrs Summit cairn.

Swirl How, Brim Fell, Coniston Old Man and Dow Crag from Great Carrs summit cairn.

There are 12 walks to choose from including Great Carrs

Steel Edge, Wetherlam & Wet Side Edge from Tilberthwaite

		1st May 2023
ASCENT:		2,946 Feet - 897 Metres
MILES:		9
WAINWRIGHTS:		3, Wetherlam - Swirl How - Great Carrs
ROUTE:		Tilberthwaite – Above Tilberthwaite Gill – Steel Edge – Wetherlam – Swirl Hawse - Prison Band – Swirl How – Top of Broad Slack – Great Carrs – Wet Side Edge – Greenburn Beck – Low Hall Garth - Slater Bridge (Little Langdale) – Moss Rigg Wood – Tilberthwaite Farm – Tilberthwaite

Remembrance Day on Great Carrs

		10th November 2019
ASCENT:		3,300 Feet - 1,006 Metres
MILES:		8.7
WAINWRIGHTS:		4, Grey Friar - Great Carrs - Swirl How - Brim Fell - Dow Crag
ROUTE:		Bottom of Walna Scar Road, Seathwaite - Tongue House - Seathwaite Tarn - Grey Friar - Fairfield - Great Carrs - Top of Broad Slack - Swirl How - Levers Hawse - Brim Fell - Goat's Hawse - Dow Crag - Buck Pike - Brown Pike - Walna Scar Road back to Seathwaite

Walking the Birketts, Carrs, Swirl How and Grey Friar from the Three Shire Stone

		3rd March 2019
ASCENT:		1,804 Feet - 550 Metres
MILES:		4.6
BIRKETTS:		5, Hell Gill Pike - Little Carrs - Great Carrs - Swirl How - Grey Friar
ROUTE:		Three Shire Stone - Wet Side Edge - Hell Gill Pike - Little Carrs - Great Carrs - Top of Broad Slack - Swirl How - Fairfield - Grey Friar - Fairfield - Wether How - Hell Gill Pike - Wet Side Edge - Three Shire Stone

Remembrance Day on Great Carrs

		11th November 2018
ASCENT:		2,737 Feet - 834 Metres
MILES:		7.7
WAINWRIGHTS:		2, Grey Friar - Great Carrs
ROUTE:		Bottom of Walna Scar Road, Seathwaite - Tongue House - Seathwaite Tarn - Troutal Fell - Grey Friar - Great Carrs - Grey Friar - Troutal Fell - Seathwaite Tarn - Tongue House - Bottom of Walna Scar Road, Seathwaite

Steel Edge, Wetherlam and a Cathedral Cave

		16th July 2017
ASCENT:		2,768 Feet - 844 Metres
MILES:		9
WAINWRIGHTS:		3, Wetherlam - Swirl How - Geat Carrs
ROUTE:		Tilberthwaite – Above Tilberthwaite Gill – Dry Cove Bottom – Steel Edge – Wetherlam – Prison Band – Swirl How – Top Of Broad Slack – Great Carrs – - Wet Side Edge – Greenburn Beck – Slater Bridge (Little Langdale) – Cathedral Quarry – Moss Rigg Wood – Pierce How Beck – Tilberthwaite

Walking the Wainwrights in 30 Walks - Walk 4 The Coniston Fells

		28th February 2016
ASCENT:		4,500 Feet - 1,372 Meters
MILES:		12.5
WAINWRIGHTS:		7, Dow Crag - Coniston Old Man - Brim Fell - Grey Friar - Great Carrs - Swirl How - Wetherlam
ROUTE:		Fell Gate - Walna Scar Road - Cove Bridge - Brown Pike - Buck Pike - Dow Crag - Goat's Hawse - Coniston Old Man - Brim Fell - Levers Hawse - Swirl Band - Grey Friar - Fairfield - Great Carrs - Top of Broad Slack - Swirl How - Prison Band - Swirl Hawse - Red Dell Moss - Wetherlam - Black Sails Ridge - Levers Water - Boulder Valley - Walna Scar Road - Fell Gate

A Coniston Round

		14th October 2015
ASCENT:		3'967 Feet - 1,209 Meters
MILES:		10.1
WAINWRIGHTS:		5, Wetherlam - Swirl How - Great Carrs - Brim Fell - Coniston Old Man
ROUTE:		Ruskin Museum - Church Beck - Miners Bridge – Coppermines Valley – Simons Nick – Levers Water – Black Sails – Red Dell Head Moss – Wetherlam – Prison Band - Swirl How - Top of Broad Slack - Great Carrs - Top of Broad Slack - Swirl Band - Levers Hawse - Brim Fell - Coniston Old Man - Low Water - Coppermines Valley - Miners Bridge - Church Beck - Ruskin Museum

The Harry Griffin 2,000 footers Walk 3 -The Coniston Fells

		13th March 2015
ASCENT:		4,084 Feet - 1,245 Meters
MILES:		14.1
SUMMITS OVER 2,000 Ft:		Wetherlam - Wetherlam south cairn - Black Sails - Swirl How - Great Cars - Grey Friar - Brim Fell - Coniston Old Man - Dow Crag - Brown Pike - Walna Scar - White Maide
ROUTE:		Coniston - Sun Hotel - Miners Bridge - Lad Stones - Wetherlam - Black Sails - Swirl Hawse - Prison Band - Swirl How - Great Carrs - Grey Friar - Fairfield - Levers Hawse - Brim Fell - Coniston Old Man - Goats Hawse - Dow Crag - Buck Pike - Brown Pike - Walna Scar - White Maiden - Walna Scar Road - Cove Bridge - Little Arrow Moor - Fell Gate - Sun Hotel - Coniston

Wetherlam, Steel Edge & the Cathedral Cave

		1st November 2013
ASCENT:		3,018 Feet, 920 Meters
MILES:		10.2
WAINWRIGHTS:		4, Wetherlam – Swirl How – Great Carrs – Grey Friar
ROUTE:		Tilberthwaite – Above Tilberthwaite Gill – Dry Cove Bottom – Steel Edge – Lad Stones – Wetherlam – Prison Band – Swirl How – Top Of Broad Slack – Great Carrs – Fairfield – Grey Friar – Fairfield – Wet Side Edge – Greenburn Beck – Slater Bridge (Little Langdale) – Cathedral Quarry – Moss Rigg Wood – Pierce How Beck – Tilberthwaite

The Coniston Fells Part II

		19th October 2012
ASCENT:		3,612 Feet, 1,101 Metres
MILES:		8.1
WAINWRIGHTS:		6, Wetherlam – Swirl How – Great Carrs – Grey Friar – Brim Fell – Coniston Old Man
ROUTE:		Silver Bank – Miners Bridge – Lad Stones – Red Gill Head Moss – Wetherlam – Prison Band – Swirl How – Great Carrs – Grey Friar – Fairfield Col – Swirl Band – Levers Hawse – Brim Fell – Coniston Old Man – Low Water – Boulder Valley – Miners Bridge – Silver Bank

A Furness Epic

		13th November 2010
ASCENT:		3,600 Ft, 1,097 Mtrs
MILES:		9.5
WAINWRIGHTS:		6, Dow Crag, Coniston Old Man, Brim Fell, Swirl How, Great Cars & Grey Friar
ROUTE:

Wetherlam, Swirl How & Great Carrs

		31st May 2010
ASCENT:		2,499 Ft 762 Mtrs
MILES:		7
WAINWRIGHTS:		3, Great Carrs, Swirl How & Wetherlam
ROUTE: