Wandale Hill
Short entry: no route or hazard notes for this fell yet.
Wandale Hill at 497m (1,631ft) is a HuMP in the Howgill Fells, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, 1.7 km east of Kensgriff and 2.0 km south-west of Harter Fell (Howgills). None of our routes climbs it yet.
Summit conditions on Wandale Hill
On the summit on Saturday 24 October: 9° to 2°C, gusts to 53 mph, 27.7 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.
The forecast figures are Open-Meteo’s, worked out for the summit’s height. How we check →
Parking & buses
Routes near Wandale Hill
No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest route starts we publish, in a straight line from the summit:
- Cautley Horseshoe — starts 2.2 km away
- Northern Howgills from Ravenstonedale — starts 5.4 km away
Conditions and 7-day summit forecast
Modelled for the 497 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
Full 7-day forecast
Taken 24 Oct 2026, 20:18 UTC; the live forecast replaces it when it loads. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)
Parking & buses for Wandale Hill
Best parking to hike Wandale Hill
Positions are approximate.
Vehicles are left at their owner’s risk: we list places people park and cannot vouch for any of them. Take valuables with you and leave nothing on show.
Getting to Wandale Hill by bus
We don’t know yet. We don’t have a measured bus answer for this fell: the bus stops we hold are the Lake District’s, and this hill is outside it. That’s a gap in our data, not a sign that no bus comes here.
Hazards on Wandale Hill
We have not written a hazard card for this fell yet, and that is not a sign that it is low-hazard. Check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected. The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority’s Take care while you’re here (opens in new tab) page covers walking in the Dales; AdventureSmart’s hill walking kit list and Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s safety page are linked from our what to carry guide.
Map
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap, with SRTM elevation data (switch layers top-right).
Parking, toilets and buses: Parking & buses ↑.
About Wandale Hill
Classifications & hill data
Is Wandale Hill a Wainwright?
No. The Wainwrights are the 214 fells of his seven Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, and Wandale Hill is not one of them. It is on the HuMP list.
Selected lists
Lists, height and summit position from the Database of British and Irish Hills; the feet are converted from its metres and the grid reference from that position. How we check →