Explore Harrison Stickle in 3D
Is Harrison Stickle a Wainwright?
Yes. Harrison Stickle is one of the 214 Wainwrights: number 9 of 27 in Book 3, The Central Fells, of Alfred Wainwright’s Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells.
Climbing Harrison Stickle from Stickle Ghyll car park
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Harrison Stickle is 735 m high, 70th of the 214 Wainwrights by height, and belongs to the Central Fells in Book 3. This route starts at the National Trust's Stickle Ghyll car park, which the Pike of Stickle route shares. Parking is paid and the car park sits at about 90 m. The New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel bus stop, about 160 m away, is served by the 516.
It is a short, steep line: 2.4 km with about 640 m of ascent. The path climbs from the start, reaching about 175 m at 0.5 km, 330 m at 1 km and 460 m at 1.4 km. The first 150 m after the car park are on paths the landowner opens by permission rather than public rights of way, and a stretch from about 0.2 km to 0.5 km has a rock surface on the map.
The gradient relaxes at Stickle Tarn, about 1.5 km along, where the line runs nearly level at about 470 m for 200 m. Then it climbs again, to about 540 m at 1.8 km and 660 m at 2.1 km. The last 230 m are on a path the landowner opens by permission rather than public rights of way. OpenStreetMap grades it as hiking, the only graded part of the route, and it ends at the summit cairn at 735 m.
About 0.9 km of the line follows public footpaths and a few metres of bridleway, and 1.8 km crosses open access land.
The GPX file is the same line, from the car park to the summit. Go back down the same way, or plan a longer walk with a map before you start.
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Where Harrison Stickle stands
Nearest Wainwrights
- Loft Crag0.5 km away · 682 m
- Pavey Ark0.6 km away · 702 m
- Thunacar Knott0.6 km away · 723 m
- Pike of Stickle0.8 km away · 708 m
- Sergeant Man1.6 km away · 736 m
Straight-line distances between summits.
All the fells in The Central 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.