Mungrisdale Common

Overview
Height: 2,076 Feet - 633 Metres
Grid Ref: NY 312 292
Area: Northern
Ordnance Survey: OL5
Wainwright Guidebook: Five

Mungrisdale Common's natural attractions are of a type that appeals only top sheep: it is more an upland prairie than a hill. There is little on these extensive grass slopes to provide passing interest for a ordinary walker, and nothing to encourage a visit. Sinen Gill, however, has long be known to geologists, the shy Skiddaw granite here, in the heart of slate country, revealing itself as a surface rock.

 

Map and Photo Gallery

 

Great Calva and Knott seen on route to Mungrisdale Common.

The Cloven Stone, Mungrisdale Common.

Atkinson Pike from Mungrisdale Common summit cairn.

 

There are 7 walks to choose from including Mungrisdale Common

Blencathra via Hall's Fell Ridge

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30th August 2020
ASCENT: 2,518 Feet - 768 Metres
MILES: 7.5
NUTTALLS: 2,Blencathra - Mungrisdale Common
ROUTE: Threlkeld - Gategill Farm - Hall's Fell Ridge - Hall's Fell Top (Blencathra) - Atkinson Pike - Mungrisdale Common - Cloven Stone - Blencathra Centre - High Row Farm - Threlkeld
 

Blencathra via Hall's Fell Ridge and Sharp Edge

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10th May 2017
ASCENT: 3,500 Feet - 1,067 Metres
MILES: 8.5
WAINWRIGHTS: 2, Blencathra - Mungrisdale Common
ROUTE: Threlkeld - Gategill Farm - Hall's Fell Ridge - Blencathra - Scales Tarn - Sharp Edge - Foule Crag - Mungrisdale Common - Cloven Stone - The Stake - Path Below Blease Fell – Blencathra Centre – Threlkeld
 

Walking the Wainwrights in 30 Walks Walk 27 - The Back O'Blencathra

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16th August 2016
ASCENT: 4,805 Feet - 1,465 Meters
MILES: 16.5
WAINWRIGHTS: 7, Carrock Fell - High Pike (Caldbeck) - Bowscale Fell - Bannerdale Crags - Mungrisdale Common - Blencathra - Souther Fell
ROUTE: Mungrisdale - Mosedale - Further Gill Syke - Carrock Fell - Miton Hill - High Pike (Caldbeck) - Cumbrian Way - Grainsgill Beck - River Caldew - Bowscale Fell north ridge - Bowscale Fell - Bannerdale Crags - Glederamackin Col - Mungrisdale Common - Blencathra - Scales Fell - Top of Mousthwaite Comb - Souther Fell - Mosedale
 

Blencathra’s Ridges & Edges

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6th July 2013
ASCENT: 3,307 Feet 1,008 Meters
MILES: 9.7
WAINWRIGHTS: 2, Blencathra – Mungrisdale Common
ROUTE: Threlkeld – Gategill Farm – Doddick Gill – Doddick Fell – Blencathra – Scales Tarn – Sharp Edge – Foul Crag – The Saddle – Blencathra – Mungrisdale Common – Cloven Stone – Path Below Blease Fell – Blencathra Centre – Threlkeld
 

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
 

Blencathra & Beyond

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11th June 2011
ASCENT: 2,000 Feet, 609 Meters
MILES: 6.5
WAINWRIGHTS: 2  Blencathra & Mungrisdale Common
ROUTE:  
 

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