Walks from Garsdale station
10 listed hills have a summit within 8 km of the platform at Garsdale — the closest is Great Knoutberry Hill at 4.6 km, the highest Wild Boar Fell at 708 m. Distances are straight lines, not routes: this page tells you a car-free day is possible here, and the planning is still yours.
- Station code
- GSD
- Grid reference
- SD788918
- Coordinates
- 54.32143, -2.32635
- Locality
- Garsdale
- Operator
- Northern Trains
- Entries & exits
- 17,054 · #2,308 of 2,589
- Hills in reach
- 10
Passenger figure is the ORR estimate of all entries and exits, April 2024 to March 2025 — a measure of how busy (or wonderfully quiet) the station is, not of train frequency.
About Garsdale station
Garsdale station is on the Settle and Carlisle Line between Carlisle and Leeds via Settle, 51 miles 29 chains south-east of Carlisle. Now in Cumbria, though historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it serves the village of Garsdale and the town of Sedbergh in Cumbria, as well as the market town of Hawes in North Yorkshire. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Garsdale railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0). Coordinates and the passenger figure come from NaPTAN and the ORR, not from Wikipedia.
The 10 hills within 8 km
Every hill from our dataset for which Garsdale is one of the 3 nearest stations. Follow a name for the full record — heights, prominence, access rights, live summit weather and daylight.
| # | Hill | Height | Classifications | From station | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great Knoutberry Hill | 672.5 m | HewittNuttallMarilyn+2 | 4.6 km | S |
| 2 | Baugh Fell - Tarn Rigg Hill | 678.4 m | HewittNuttallMarilyn+2 | 4.8 km | W |
| 3 | Sails | 666.6 m | HewittNuttallSimm | 5.1 km | N |
| 4 | Knoutberry Haw | 675.7 m | Nuttall | 5.7 km | W |
| 5 | Swarth Fell | 681 m | HewittNuttallSimm | 5.9 km | NW |
| 6 | Wold Fell | 559 m | Dewey | 7 km | S |
| 7 | Aye Gill Pike | 556.4 m | DeweyMarilynHuMP | 7.5 km | SW |
| 8 | Wild Boar Fell | 708.4 m | HewittNuttallMarilyn+2 | 7.6 km | NW |
| 9 | Hugh Seat | 688.1 m | Nuttall | 7.6 km | N |
| 10 | Redshaw Moss | 545 m | Dewey | 7.6 km | S |
A hill 8 km away in a straight line can be a much longer day on the ground — and on rural lines the last train home leaves early and some stations are request stops with a handful of services a day. Check live times and facilities for Garsdale before you commit, plan the route on a proper map, and give the daylight planner your real finish time.
Hill data from the Database of British & Irish Hills v18.3 (CC BY 4.0). Station position from NaPTAN (Department for Transport, OGL v3.0); passenger estimates from the Office of Rail and Road (OGL v3.0). Distances and bearings computed by OpenFell, summit to platform.
Daylight here today
- Sunrise
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- Sunset
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- Daylight
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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for the station. Walking to a timetable means walking to the light: set your turnaround with the daylight safety planner.
Plan the day
- Walking-time calculator — Naismith with terrain and fitness corrections.
- Access checker — what the land around here allows.
- Kit-list generator — packed for the forecast, not for habit.
- Garsdale on National Rail — live departures, facilities, engineering work.
- OS Maps · Google Maps