Lose Hill (Ward's Piece)

Lose Hill

Height: 476m (1,562ft)

Prominence: 76m (249ft)

Region: Peak District Dark Peak

Classifications: Tump

Summit feature: Grass

Times climbed: 1

Related trip report: 
Rushup Edge, The Great Ridge & Win Hill - 03/07/2016
Mam Tor & The Great Ridge - 04/01/2015

The summit looking to Win Hill

Lose Hill lies in the south-east corner of the parish of Edale and the end of the Great Ridge that runs from Rushup Edge to the west.

Local access activist G. H. B. Ward was given an area of Lose Hill by the Sheffield and District Federation of the Ramblers Association in 1945, which was named Ward's Piece; he subsequently presented this to the National Trust.

Suggested explanations for the name of Lose Hill include that it derives from the Old English 'hlose', meaning pigsties, or that it may be a corruption of ‘loose’, as in ‘free land’. The hill's counterpart, Win Hill, lies to the west. In relatively recent times, the two hills' names have prompted a fanciful tale concerning the outcome of an imagined battle. There is no historical basis for the tale whatsoever, and no evidence of any battle ever being fought here.

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