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| Name: | Black Hill |
| Hill number: | 5348 |
| Height: | 441m / 1447ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2183 Beacon Hill |
| RHB Section: | 38A: Shropshire |
| County/UA: | Shropshire |
| Catchment: | Severn |
| Class: | Hump, Tump (400-499m), Clem (Hu,Tu,4,Cm) |
| Grid ref: | SO 32625 79018 |
| Summit feature: | trig point in clearing |
| Drop: | 105m |
| Col: | 336m SO276800  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 137 148 (1:25k) 201N |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 96 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| last of 3 this day. walked up from Obley on road to Fiddlers Elbow then via forest tracks. Path in through trees to summit marked by wooden post. Nice view from F E car park. | IanHHill | 20/02/2024 |
| From Large Parking area at Fiddlers Elbow. Very cold but good wander around the wood to the Trig. | Iris Jephcote | 08/01/2024 |
| From Large Parking area at Fiddlers Elbow. Very cold but good wander around the wood to the Trig. | Ivy Jephcote | 08/01/2024 |
| From Large Parking area at Fiddlers Elbow. Very cold but good wander around the wood to the Trig. | Jephcote83 | 08/01/2024 |
| From enormous parking area below Fiddlers Elbow, route as gerrybowes, except the yellow ribbons are gone (and not needed). Candidate alternative tracks shown on explorer map either don't exist or are so overgrown as to be unusable. Pleasant enough short walk. | pwheeler | 03/05/2023 |
| From parking to the SW, up the forest road left then right. Marker post and yellow taped trees to trig. | NormanW | 25/05/2022 |
| https://www.strava.com/activities/6571104308. Waymark Post at SO3261978923 takes a direct path to the trig. mapping shows other ground higher. https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/maps/b9/England/ | Sleepwa1ker | 22/01/2022 |
| As part of a lovely circular from Clun to Black Hill. | greboicus | 05/06/2021 |
| Followed gerrybowes route, dropping from path end in forest to TP. Summit is probably about where path emerges, approx 23 m E of TP | henryfm | 31/05/2021 |
| From Clunton Coppice Car Park. Appraoched from Firebreak from the east which lead straight to the Trig. Returned via Sowdley Woods. Lovely Warm Day didn't see a soul after leaving Car Park. 5m Route | Jephcote83 | 04/04/2021 |
| As gerrybowes. | PGCE | 10/11/2020 |
| Pleasant walk from Fiddler's Elbow car park, following gerrybowes route. Waymarker post is almost hidden in trees. Bright yellow marker tape a good guide through the trees. The trig point was in a clearing a short distance off to the left. | LizH | 16/08/2020 |
| Nice sunny post lockdown stroll to the top. | Wheeler | 16/05/2020 |
| Fiddler's Elbow Car Park at SO 3191 7865 - ENE along track for about 200m, turned left & up to junction with bridleway - Turned right & E. along bridleway for about 420m to the wooden marker post at SO 3262 7892 - From the marker post it is less than 100m to the trig point & the route between widely spaced trees is marked with strips of bright yellow tape. Apart from a bit of brash, an easy bag. Ground 20m E. of trig looks higher. (S) | gerrybowes | 22/02/2020 |
| From Fiddlers Elbow CP . Took forest rod up ignoring first turn on right, then took second right higher up. Saw path to left and took this but only led to hide on stilts. Went back to main forest road, and there is a marker on left which indicates way through top trig, conveniently then waymarked with little yellow stickers. | Mark Sims | 08/02/2020 |
| From car park to SW up forest track and soon into wet snow that had fallen previous day. From track made way between the trees to Trig and HP | PeterD | 05/04/2019 |
| With Minnie, Black Hill from Fiddlers Elbow via forestry tracks, Trig fairly straightforward as some neww felling been done, then Hopton Titterhill from parking area, no views from either so went up Warfield Bank after a wander round Hopton Castle, Warm dry & Sunny, a good day to be out. | apricorum | 25/02/2019 |
| With Jenx and Bryher from Fiddlers Elbow parking. Used Carole Engel description, goodish path all the way. Not hard to go wrong following 1:25k map. Entry into conifers easy to spot and way through clear of undergrowth | nordicstar | 29/12/2018 |
| All quiet in the forest today. Easily found straightforward route to trig with no spruce bashing. | jenx | 29/12/2018 |
| There were around a dozen cars in the car park opposite the forest road SW of the summit but still a couple of spaces. I followed the forest road ENE to SO 32122 78730 and incorrectly took the R fork. I eventually got to SO 32332 78902 via SO 32295 78680 over rough ground and thick bracken (from the track log). I walked along the track NE from there to the lookout tower at SO 32625 79170 looking for a likely access route to the trig. Plumping for one at SO 32505 79065 I eventually got there to find that I was about 65ft out (sorry, I don't do metric). It was easier returning to SO 32492 79050 where the remains of a wooden arrow pointed at the gap I had emerged from. I followed the easy forest roads via SO 32215 78962 back to the now empty car park (apart from my car). Took exactly an hour but seemed longer. | Jim.Fothergill | 21/08/2018 |
| From the car park South of Clunton. I had forgotten the delights of spruce bashing! I wish I had spotted the wooden 'arrow' on the ride before I fell over it coming back out! | tim747 | 31/01/2018 |
| With K. Easily from W of Fiddler's Elbow. Trig can be found by using tracking skills to follow faint path and snapped branches into trees. | Ashley | 16/04/2017 |
| The last 100m is hard work through dense conifers! | Alan Caine | 25/03/2017 |
| Large carpark and good paths lead to final 100m struggle through trees | cjo | 25/03/2017 |
| Pleasently challenging. From forest track at SO 32330 79217 close to hunters perched seat 270m E along graasy ride then 180m SW along smaller ride to its high point marked by sticks on ground. Thats the easy bit, now 130m just S of E into scratchy forest to trig point in grass/heather clearing. I thought the ground ~30m to the E of the trig was possibly higher but hard to tell in dense forest. | RichardM | 31/03/2016 |
| Last hill of the day. Nice walk up the track. Trig in the middle of dense forest. With stig_nest | Laura.W | 20/02/2016 |
| From near Fiddlers Elbow. Easy tracks lead to less clear tracks. Trig burried deep into trees.. a pig to get to. With Laura.W. | stig_nest | 20/02/2016 |
| With Cabe | simon and co | 21/11/2015 |
| 7/7 Last of seven on misty wet day Gatley Hill/High Vinnals/Bringewood/Wigmore Rolls/Coxall Knoll/Clunbury Hill/Black Hill | Fergalh | 08/11/2015 |
| Made the trig point through dense forest from the south. Easier exit to the west. | Campbell Singer | 03/03/2015 |
| I tried the 100m crawl,from the S, on the way in but found a better route on the way out: from the bend in the track at SO32331 76904 take the grassy ride NE, at SO32487 79053 (I have trimmed the branches and gorse back a bit) enter the trees and stay in the same channel all the way to the trig. It's 140m of mainly walking with only a couple of places where you need to crawl under branches. | Chris Peart | 15/08/2014 |
| Parked at Fiddlers Elbow and followed forest tracks to within 100yrds. Did a loop of the tracks around the trip but there no way in. Couldn't avoid the damp push through the tree, no the best way to start a Sunday. Wish I'd read the previous logs and come prepared. | rhalstead | 20/07/2014 |
| Nasty struggle through the trees here albeit a relatively quick one. | Alex C | 21/06/2014 |
| Had given up looking for trig when I twigged (!)that I had been determinedly crawling around in the wrong block of forestry. Second attempt successful in finding trig with only a moderate amount of coniferous unpleasantness. | Chris Pearson | 16/02/2014 |
| Pleasant stop over in Clun Hostel. Approached from a little NE of Fiddler's Elbow (large car park). Hill is Forestry Commission land, so no problems with access although most paths not marked as PROWs. Headed broadly E on good paths to a point directly S of trig and plunged through young conifers 85m to summit, in a small clearing. Not a pleasant experience, but easier by far (and shorter) than we've done before, so no real hassle. GPS needed, otherwise might be difficult to locate. Fortunately trees dry otherwise full waterproofs advised. Retraced our steps back to path. | jonglew | 07/10/2013 |
| Difficult to find trig without GPS crossing at right angles the lines of thick tree planting but eventually made it . | chalky1953 | 24/09/2013 |
| Ridiculously awkward through the trees - Had to use GPS to have any chance of finding the trig and summit, which I duly did, after 90-odd metres of essentially crawling through the pine trees. | Chingwakabungya | 31/05/2013 |
| Look at the date .... May 15th .... heavy snow! Good parking area to the west and an easy walk to the area of the summit. Conditions were too bad to spend a long the looking for the trig so got as close as possible. (Leaves were heavy with snow and impossible to push through them) | moorsman | 15/05/2013 |
| Clun to Bucknell: From SO324790 armed with gardening equipment. After 20m or so there was obvious line of weakness (with snow weighing down branches) that led to clearing. Returned along parallel line to S but still awkward to regain the open ride. | Smudge | 01/04/2013 |
| Walked from Fiddler's Elbow, horrible wet and grey day | Normski | 02/02/2013 |
| fairly close to trig column but conifers beat me (as per clivevilla) | arranc | 06/08/2012 |
| with Tony & Devon. Forestry so thick not possible to find access point to trig point shown on the map. | Stuart Hyde | 29/07/2012 |
| Exactly as described by halfdecent. With Brent. 4 1£ coins on the trig which we left!!. Many thanks to Brent for pushing through. | chrisbien | 11/03/2012 |
| Made this one without the GPS. 10 mins from the hp of the track .. through the trees to the 8th channel then bear right and look for trig in clearing on left. Fabulous fungi everywhere made up for all of the pine branches. | Halfdecent | 30/11/2011 |
| Easy enough to find with GPS and good navigational brain but my skiing approach to getting thro' the trees caused bruised and bleeding knuckles. A few pine needle found their way back into my new car but really an easy bag compared to most Scottish Hills | Dugswell2 | 27/11/2011 |
| Training walk | bradonline | 15/05/2011 |
| Followed Charlie Leventons 342 degrees. Wrapped in car blanket (boiler suit would be better) Used compass for the 80m and was lucky enough to enter the small clearing. In my top 5 worst summits. Awful. Loved DG comments I know EXACTLY what he means! | destaylor | 05/01/2011 |
| I FOLLLOWED CHARLIE LEVENTONS DIRECTIONS BUT STILL FAILED. HE MUST HAVE SOME BIG SECETEURS, FAIR PLAY TO HIM I SPENT OVER AN HOUR TRYING TO GET IN BUT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE. | DARRENG | 03/01/2011 |
| Started off from Fiddlers Elbow and made my up the forest tracks, some of which we blocked by fallen trees.Pushed my way through the new growth and managed to find trig with GPS,but now feel like a pin cushion ! | heavyhorses | 18/03/2010 |
| Second attempt - this time fully prepared with seceteurs and full-body cover. Found the trig point by entering the trees from the high point of the track at SO 32640 78914 - on a bearing 342 degrees from grid North. | summitsup | 25/01/2009 |