Wolfhole Crag

About Wolfhole Crag

Wolfhole Crag is an isolated, rarely visited 527-metre hill in the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire, England, its seclusion owing partly to its low profile and the long approach walks needed to reach it. It marks the north-westernmost boundary of the civil parish of Bowland Forest High, the historic Forest of Bowland and the Lordship of Bowland.

A 'wolf hole' at the base of the south-facing side of the east crag is presumably how the hill gained its name. A long path, much troubled by bogs, approaches from Ward's Stone in the west and is met halfway by a tarmac path from Tarnbrook, while a further route comes in from the north-east off the Hornby Road in the direction of White Hill.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Wolfhole Crag (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for England — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in England ·check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 54.015, -2.561. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is large boulder 3m S of trig point. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

23-Feb-25

Drop measured from

SD617583 · 489 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

Which hill this one belongs to

Wolfhole Crag is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Ward's Stone (562 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 489 m.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks