Wainwrights Baggers

Book 6 · The North Western Fells

Grasmoor

A 852 m Wainwright in The North Western Fells, with one desk-checked ascent from the car park by Crummock Water: 2.8 km and 740 m of climbing.

Explore Grasmoor in 3D

Is Grasmoor a Wainwright?

Yes. Grasmoor is one of the 214 Wainwrights: number 10 of 29 in Book 6, The North Western Fells, of Alfred Wainwright’s Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells.

Climbing Grasmoor from the car park by Crummock Water

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The route in green, from the car park (P) to the summit (triangle), with the bus stop (B) where it falls on the map and nearby Wainwrights as dots. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Grasmoor is 852 m high, 20th of the 214 Wainwrights by height, and belongs to the North Western Fells in Book 6. It is the highest fell in that book. This route climbs it from a free car park by Crummock Water, at about 110 m. The Crummock Water car park bus stop at Lanthwaite, about 20 m away, is served by the 77.

The line is 2.8 km long and gains about 740 m, climbing almost the whole way. After the first 35 m, every part of the path is graded mountain hiking by OpenStreetMap. The route crosses Cinderdale Beck at about 270 m.

The first kilometre climbs from about 110 m to 385 m. Between 1.1 km and 1.6 km the gradient eases a little, from about 410 m to 495 m. After that it steepens again, and the line gains about 330 m in the next 900 m, reaching about 826 m at 2.5 km. The last 290 m rise gently to the top at 852 m. OpenStreetMap maps a shelter at the summit, and the final few metres leave the mapped path.

About 1.2 km of the line follows public footpaths, and 2.7 km crosses open access land.

The GPX file is the same line, from the car park to the summit. Return the same way, or plan another descent with a map before you set out.

Download the GPXFree. The route is © OpenStreetMap contributors and the file is released under the Open Database Licence: you may copy, share and adapt it.

Where Grasmoor stands

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Grasmoor among all 214 Wainwright summits, each in its true position.

Nearest Wainwrights

Straight-line distances between summits.

All the fells in The North Western FellsAll 214 Wainwrights

Map and route data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Heights along the route from OS Terrain 50. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (NaPTAN, Bus Open Data Service, Lake District National Park Authority rights of way).

Access land © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Heights, grid references and summit positions come from The Database of British and Irish Hills v18.3, used under CC BY 4.0.