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Great Shunner Fell
716m (2349ft)

The Northern Dales Area, The Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England

The summit of Great Shunner Fell is marked by an Ordnance Survey Trig Point.


Record Great Shunner Fell as Bagged, Climbed & Conquered


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English Mountain
88th highest in England,
151st in England & Wales

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English Nuttall
111th highest in England,
190th in England & Wales

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English Marilyn
27th highest in England,
554th highest in Great Britain

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English Trig Point (Pillar)

Walk Great Shunner Fell walking UK Mountains in The Northern Dales Area The Yorkshire Dales National Park North Yorkshire, England

Great Shunner Fell Summit

Photo: Paul Harrison

You can find Great Shunner Fell & all the walks that climb it on these unique free-to-access Interactive Walk Planning Maps: (click/TAP to select)

The Yorkshire Dales National Park


1:25,000 scale OS Explorer Map (the ones with orange/yellow covers):

OL30 Yorkshire Dales - Northern & Central areas


1:50,000 scale OS Landranger Map (the ones with pink/magenta covers):

98 Wensleydale & Upper Wharfedale


See Great Shunner Fell and the surrounding tops on our free-to-access 'Google Style' Peak Bagging Maps:

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You can walk to the top of Great Shunner Fell by using this easy‑to‑follow route map:
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Walk ny149 Great Shunner Fell from Hawes

The Pennine Way - and superb views of Hawes

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Vital Statistics:

Length: 13.75ml (22km)
Ascent:2,330ft (710m)
Time:7.25hrs
Grade:Walk Grade 7 Icon (Hard)

Other walkers who hiked, climbed, bagged and summited Great Shunner Fell Fellow go4awalkers who have already walked, climbed, summited & bagged Great Shunner Fell

Philip Wilde walked up Great Shunner Fell on August 27th, 2023 [from/via/route] From Dent station

Tony Halliday climbed Great Shunner Fell on October 17th, 2020 [from/via/route] camped in hawes started & ended walk from the excellent greendragon inn up & down due to poor visability cloud cover [with] sally halliday jimmy boo and George our 3 dogs [weather] cool day started off dry however weather turned halfway to rain & very misty poor visability - camped at hawes long weekend lovely town green dragon pub excellent also visited hardraw force & saw our first red squirell weather wet & very cool on the evening disappointed as wanted to walk to lovely seat also but poor visability put paid to that will go another day

Michael Naylor bagged Great Shunner Fell on May 3rd, 2019 [from/via/route] Thwaite [weather] Overcast

Simon Boddy has hiked Great Shunner Fell [with] My girlfriend

Caroline Winter summited Great Shunner Fell on October 19th, 2018 [from/via/route] Hardraw [with] Shirley [weather] Good views & sunny,westerly wind, great visibity - Parked opposite PW & a steady walk to the top. Shirley having a bad time with her boots & heels blistering, so there & back took us 5 hrs, but in no rush & still in time to visit the cheese factory in Hawes.

Andy Jakob conquered Great Shunner Fell during August, 1985 [from/via/route] Pennine Way north to south - and again on April 21st 2018 in fantastic sunshine after an extended winter of snow & recent heavy rain. Amazind day with AFWC

David Congreave scaled Great Shunner Fell on April 7th, 2018 [from/via/route] Hawes [weather] Wet, wet, wet.

Stephen Eddy walked up Great Shunner Fell on August 26th, 2017 [from/via/route] Hawes, whilst completing James Herriott way [with] Paula Eddy, Martin Bayliss, Tracey Bayliss [weather] cloud clearing

Kevin Foster climbed Great Shunner Fell on July 11th, 2017 [from/via/route] Hardraw [with] By myself (and Henry my Labrador) [weather] Cloudy (light rain). Tops clearing out by mid afternoon - I set off along the Pennine Way from Hardraw later than planned in the morning as I'd originally driven to Hubberholme in Wharfedale to do Yockenthwaite Moor & Birks Fell. The weather (which was heavy rain at the time) put paid to that idea, so I decided to drive to Hawes with the intention of driving home from there if the weather didn't improve. Things looked more promising in Wensleydale so I made a snap decision to bag Great Shunner Fell (I figured if the summit was still in cloud at least route finding would be simple). The top was in cloud but only the last 100 metres or so. Rather annoyingly it had cleared out completely by the time I reached the Buttertubs road summit.

Chris Faulkner bagged Great Shunner Fell on July 7th, 2016 [from/via/route] Pennine Way [with] Michelle chandler [weather] Wet

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More Photographs & Pictures of views from, on or of Great Shunner Fell

Looking back to Hawes from the Pennine Way half-way up Great Shunner Fell

Looking back to Hawes from the Pennine Way half-way up Great Shunner Fell

Photo: Paul Harrison (4)

*Wensleydale from Great Shunner Fell

*Wensleydale from Great Shunner Fell

Photo: Wayne Hill (80)

Muker from The Pennine Way on Great Shunner Fell

Muker from The Pennine Way on Great Shunner Fell

Photo: Wayne Hill (49)

Mucker Valley taken from about half way down Great Shunner Fell

Mucker Valley taken from about half way down Great Shunner Fell

Photo: David Mann (2)


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