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| Name: | Waddles Down |
| Hill number: | 5407 |
| Height: | 248.6m / 816ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2877 High Willhays |
| RHB Section: | 40: Cornwall & Devon |
| County/UA: | Devon |
| Catchment: | Exe |
| Class: | Hump, Tump (200-299m), Clem (Hu,Tu,2,Cm) |
| Grid ref: | SX 86548 94702 |
| Summit feature: | ground 12m WNW of trig point behind BT mast compound |
| Drop: | 112.6m |
| Col: | 136m SX 8441 9314  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 191 (1:25k) 114S |
| Observations: | trig point (SX 86562 94701) is 0.6m lower; summit 1.4km west at SX 85186 94720 is 1.8m lower; highest natural ground by covered reservoir SX851948 is 2m lower too |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 64 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| With Rosaidh and Luna. Watch out for the GOML! She drove past on her tractor as we were leaving, and having been open about where we had been she started on about trespass and bio security. Empty field, no livestock, stuck to the boundary - I shrugged my shoulders and said she could call it trespass if she liked. Briefly touched on the benefits of Scottish land access rights vs English, then wished her a good day and departed. A memorable outing for the wrong reasons, it's an outstanding view across Exeter to the sea. | BigNick | 08/04/2023 |
| Parked in front of compound, up one side of hedge to trig, then back and up other side to HP in field. | PeterD | 09/02/2023 |
| Good parking at compound entrance. | Minto | 30/06/2022 |
| Parked in entrance to mast compound at SX 8655 9463 - Over gate & managed to make way up between compound fence & hedge (shears would have been handy) - Continued alongside fence over bramble & thistle & then over low wire mesh fence to high point which lies in field behind compound. (S) | gerrybowes | 14/06/2021 |
| Parked in entrance to mast and went round the compound to the GR given. | clivevilla | 11/11/2017 |
| Parked in entrance to mast compound, up one side of field to trig and other to apparently higher ground, possible to squeeze up between fence and hedge | nordicstar | 07/10/2017 |
| From mast gateway, simple walk along field edge. | rhalstead | 04/03/2017 |
| Easy access around perimeter fence of comms. mast. Summit is beside a ROC bunker (lid not locked) so it seems possible the trig point was at the natural high point and the slightly higher ground now is the result of excavations for the bunker. | RichardM | 27/03/2016 |
| Straigt forward access to trig point from field | Poolton123 | 19/10/2015 |
| 7/7 Beside the mast there is the trig pillar hidden in the hedge (third time this day) | Fergalh | 03/02/2015 |
| Parked in the entrance to the mast compound and hopped over the gate. | Herbert Anchovy | 15/09/2014 |
| Parked in entrance to compound, along hedge to trig then through gap to summit behind mast. | Chris Peart | 11/06/2014 |
| Parked at entrance to comms compound. Into cattle pasture with friendly (ie disinterested) cows. Walked along field boundary to trig point at HuMP summit. | jonglew | 02/12/2013 |
| Circular from Newton St. Cyres via woodland tracks mashed by harvesting operations. | Smudge | 14/10/2012 |
| Galltywenallt | 02/07/2012 | |
| As Fasgadh | chrisbien | 23/05/2012 |
| Ascent by bike from Crediton on the way to Exeter. Easy ascent from road to right of the comms mast enclosure. | fasgadh | 03/04/2012 |
| Easy trig to bag...then thro gap to look at old water container behind mast. | Dugswell2 | 18/03/2012 |
| Visited the trig first and then crawled through the fence to the high point on the other side. | Father Ted | 15/02/2012 |
| Easy parking to S. Trig point has some 'loose' barbed wire surrounding it for about 100sq m. | destaylor | 08/12/2011 |
| Think the high point is to the west of trig point by the mast. | DARRENG | 20/05/2011 |
| Parked in entrance to mast enclosure. Through a gate, up field to left, under loose barbed wire to column 3716 high in hedge. | arranc | 01/04/2011 |
| Found trig point in the hedge surrounding communications tower; (to the east of the tower, about 100 meters from the road). I cleared some of the vegetation from it, but more work remains.... | Isambard | 07/08/2009 |
| pleasantish summit. immed NE of transmitter compound | RHW | 07/06/2003 |
| Halfdecent | 22/10/2023 | |
| asbown | 17/04/2023 | |
| Matt | 11/01/2023 | |
| Tom Mundell | 29/12/2022 | |
| Adrian | 19/07/2022 | |
| abbo0001 | 26/01/2022 | |
| Tricky | 17/06/2021 | |
| Alan Caine | 29/03/2019 | |
| softsquare | 26/09/2018 | |
| PGCE | 03/02/2018 | |
| Kiltie | 09/10/2017 | |
| jenx | 07/10/2017 | |
| ijpowell | 22/04/2017 | |
| Tony S | 07/04/2017 | |
| Denise | 27/03/2016 | |
| RobertP | 18/10/2015 | |
| carole engel | 21/09/2015 | |
| Campbell Singer | 13/01/2015 | |
| iaindbrown | 24/09/2014 | |
| Mark Sims | 01/04/2014 | |
| Steve Q | 17/03/2014 | |
| jimbloomer | 24/02/2014 | |
| chalky1953 | 15/10/2013 | |
| Glenford | 09/06/2013 | |
| Alan Whatley | 09/06/2013 | |
| Colin Crawford | 10/03/2013 |