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Name: | Wyck Beacon |
Hill number: | 7770 |
Height: | 250m / 820ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2869 Cleeve Hill |
RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
County/UA: | Gloucestershire |
Catchment: | Thames |
Class: | Tump (200-299m), Subhump, Clem (Tu,2,sHu,Cm) |
Grid ref: | SP 20192 20791 |
Summit feature: | ground on tumulus c 7m from trig point |
Drop: | 96m |
Col: | 154m SP192241 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 163 (1:25k) OL45N |
Comments: | col in dismantled railway cutting |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 65 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Parked on minor road at SP 2070 2102, crossed the A424 and approached on bridleway from the E. About halfway there was an open gate into the summit field so an easy stroll across pasture and no bwf crossings necessary. | milimana | 05/09/2022 |
Simple hop over a BWF. Parking by garage. | DanMaisieBex | 30/04/2022 |
On the Oxfordshire Way with a circular walk out to Bourton and back after parking at Kingham | PhilipChaston | 25/04/2021 |
Parked at road junction. Quick hop over bwf to summit and trig (unusual to have the brass fitting so far off-centre). | PGCE | 06/01/2021 |
As JohnW and Aye Jimmy | johnkenyon | 13/06/2020 |
With the lockdown family following a visit to Burford. Lovely circuit taking in Wyck Beacon, Wyck Rissington, Little Rissington and the lakes near Bourton-on-the-Water. | Mark Jackson | 23/05/2020 |
A short detour aver a visit to the Prescott Speed Hill Climb (my car is very old - I did not speed!) | M3WDD | 19/08/2019 |
As JohnW, parked by metal gate about 150m N, walked past barn and round tank then across field to mound in copse and trig. | Aye Jimmy | 14/04/2019 |
Bourton-on-the-Water to Kingham station. | Smudge | 12/01/2019 |
Over bwf into arable field. | Campbell Singer | 10/07/2018 |
TD, C & H | This Dog | 20/06/2018 |
From nearest corner of field at roadside. | KC | 09/06/2018 |
Parked to the north at entrance to barn. Walked round the back of tower to summit knoll, which is in the middle of an arable field. | JohnW | 29/04/2018 |
Tumulus with 3 mature Beech trees top an otherwise level landscape. Easy access over BWF from adjacent foot path. | RichardM | 05/04/2018 |
Parked in minor road then down track a little as their were farm workers about. Nipped over the fence and across the short distance to the tumulus. | clivevilla | 06/11/2017 |
5/6 (Leckhampton Hill/Clapton Hill/Swell Hill/Stow-on-the-Wold Hill (New GR)/Wyck Beacon/Stow-on-the-Wold Hill (Old GR)) | Fergalh | 28/06/2017 |
Drove through the very pretty Wyck Rissington afterwards. | squeegs | 02/04/2017 |
The 65 mile linear Oxfordshire Way passes this summit during its first 6 miles whilst still in Gloucestershire having climbed up to Wyck Beacon from the start in Bourton on The Water. To the south the former Little Rissington RAF airfield has a significant military history - Central Flying School was based here as were the Red Arrows (and their predessors - The Red Pelicans !?) and the USAF with their giant C5 transport aircraft. | Chris Pearson | 17/02/2017 |
Across field to trig and tumulus | Colin Crawford | 14/01/2017 |
Walked in from Bourton on the Water | Bheinn | 18/10/2016 |
Parked in lane with short walk across field. | Ramblingpaul | 21/08/2016 |
Bit of a bonus - on the way to holiday cottage in the Cotswolds when I noticed that there was a Tump nearby. My wife pulled up rather awkwardly in the nearby road junction whilst I bagged it. As others have said, it's a pretty flat summit. | wheresthepath | 28/05/2016 |
From roadside over fence to copse & trig, then along road & down Oxfordshire Way to Wyck Rissington then Bourton on the Water for ice cream by the river. V hot & sunny afternoon. | apricorum | 12/05/2016 |
Another side of the road job as there were still (wet)standing crops in the field. | heavyhorses | 20/08/2015 |
As others, across field to HP | PeterD | 07/06/2015 |
Almost a roadside tump, hop over a b/w fence and across a muddy arable field. Obvious HP on a tumulus, shared with 3 mature trees and a trig pillar. | jonglew | 10/02/2015 |
Langley Hill, Chrchdown Hill, Birdlip Hill, Crawley Hill, Cam Long Down (best of the bunch), Wyck Beacon | simon and co | 07/12/2014 |
ackward barbed wire fence to access field | Adrian | 15/06/2013 |
Visited while doing field work in the Slaughters. The top wire of the fence is fairly slack so all but the shortest should be able to step over to gain access to the barrow. Still patches of snow in April. | Herbert Anchovy | 05/04/2013 |
walk with steve and Maddy from Bourton on the water | nell1583 | 01/03/2013 |
Easy parking. Summit could be anywhere as fairly flat. Highest point probably the trig point almost on top of the tumulus. Gate, barbed wire on top, just near the T junction. | destaylor | 28/02/2013 |
Almost dark, needed flash to take photo of trig pillar. Dark useful too for this short trespass across field to small knoll with clump, as very visible from nearby businesses and road. Easy roadside parking, barded wire fence less easy. | Hillsidenick | 17/11/2012 |
. | CreakingHiker | 27/09/2012 |
Visited while walking part of the Oxfordshire Way | rhalstead | 10/06/2012 |
Walk up from Bourton via Little Rissington. On the summit is a fine bronze age barrow, under trees. Fence is not easy and field is cropped. | thesweetcheat | 09/01/2012 |
Jumped out at the top on the way to Bourton in the Water. Didn't realised the red arrows used to fly from here! | DanHolme | 31/12/2011 |
Oxford Way. Over fence. | arranc | 09/02/2011 |
pleasant summit, limited view, Primary TP. TP in copse a few m E of rd, access field from start of BW | RHW | 18/10/2002 |
idylic setting in little copse in middle of field under a beech tree; trig s1548 top skewed spider to the south | vegibagger | 01/05/1999 |
On Stow- Icomb- Wyck and Gt. Rissingons- Bourton walk. Poor weather, but walking through the villages enlivened our walk, and lunch at Gt Barrington was much appreciated. Very little road walking necessary. With family | pwheeler | 20/09/1980 |
Wycombe Wanderer | 26/12/2023 | |
Martin R | 08/09/2021 | |
DC11main | 27/06/2021 | |
bladeblaster | 22/05/2021 | |
Ultima Thule | 07/05/2020 | |
ijpowell | 20/11/2019 | |
Barbara Singer | 10/07/2018 | |
Alan Whatley | 08/02/2018 | |
GordonAdshead | 02/08/2017 | |
Swindon Bagger | 17/04/2016 |