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Name:Birch Hill
Hill number:16798
Height:158.3m / 519ft
Section:36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines
Classification:Tu,1,Cm
Drop:80m
Col:78m  SJ549704  
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Entry no.Date recordedGrid Ref.Feature / Observations / SurveyRecorded byStatusSubpointLatest review
1165908/01/2016SJ 52212 73819  F: Slight mound under overhead pylon/cables.
O: Flattish area, field maybe 60-70m S may be as high?
Aye Jimmy
Subpoint
1CC
3101818/04/2020SJ 52238 73756  F: no feature, near edge of field
S: LIDAR 1m
Galltywenallt
Summit
CC
3101918/04/2020SJ 52201 73763  F: no feature
O: 13cm below summit
S: LIDAR 1m
Galltywenallt
Subpoint
2CC
3102018/04/2020SJ 52215 73813  F: shallow mound under pylon
O: 5cm below summit, possibly unnatural
S: LIDAR 1m
Galltywenallt
Subpoint
1CC
262408/10/2013SJ 52214 73815  F: Beside pylon or by the fencechrisbien
Extracted
1CC



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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 61 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all)ByDate of Ascent
Parked on mowed verge of posh houses to south of fp. Verge was dry so undamaged. Up the lane and intosummit field. Ten minutes there and back.Campbell Singer01/09/2023
Solo. Parked on verge of road Jct to the north. Wearing shorts so climbed gates to avoid nettles in fenced-in pathway. No dogs loose or horses.Nick Canute02/06/2023
From Delamere forest Road along Sandstone Trail and up past forest lodges. Over wir fence to top and along to boulder. No horses.Flatfield06/03/2023
Quickly up from the N.sclater16/01/2023
Parked on verge near junction to north. Along narrow FP then up to top and mound by pylon. Horses in different part of field.PeterD17/10/2022
Roadside parking by Shepherds Houses for a circuit of Woodhouse Hill, Alvanley Cliff and Birch Hill (visited all the options noted).PGCE22/09/2022
A through walk from Frodsham to Helsby station. Paths and lanes from Woodhouse hill. Horses at far side of field today.Minto13/11/2021
A tour on foot from Frodsham Station: 1. Beacon Hill; 2. Birch Hill; 3. Alvanley Cliff. Good views all round from here.summitsup30/10/2021
short walk from road to the NJK04/06/2021
Grassy pasture under fizzing electrical pylon. Lumpy levelish area with various possible HPs to east of Delamere Way, from which it is easily accessible.Denise 29/11/2020
From path to W. Horse pasture. Visited all 3 potential high points, unable to differentiate by Abney but I slightly favored the grassed over outcropping rock to E of the pylon.RichardM29/11/2020
Parked on grass verge by crossroads to N. at SJ 5226 7411 - Along road to fingerpost & then S. along narrow RoW for about 150m - Easily over wire fence alongside metal field gate & then up to unmarked summit. Also visited area by pylon & area to W. which looked as high. (S)gerrybowes21/11/2020
Parked at road junction to the north. No animals in the field! Solo.bolton07/11/2020
Parking possible on Bushells Road to the north. Very difficult summit access from this track from the west. Instead go through the first fieldgate and head directly upwards across the field to the open summit.moorsman05/03/2020
Walked up from the crossroads where we parked in drizzle and mist on a Friday evening after swimming at Hatchmere. Strangely, there was no-one about. The overhead pylon was very noisy. With Mart.John Eley07/06/2019
No embarrassing drama thankfully unlike tumpawumpa two months ago. Same short route from N along fp (Delamere Way) to gain pasture. I did have a drama way back on my first orienteering event as a 13 yr old schoolboy in Delamere Forest which this hill abuts. I can remember not being able to find the flags, losing all sense of where I was and having my first taste of the impossibility of trying to push through small dense Christmas trees. A great adventure!Chris Pearson29/03/2019
A true tumping disaster with Nwormgage. Found our route to the highpoint, whilst in muddy field considering how we would navigate through 6 inquisitive horses, I became aware of a herd of cows in the road about to be directed into our (not ROW) field! We ran back but the cows just beat us, the farmer advised us to stay put. Quite embarrassing being caught with your pants down like this by 4 disgruntled farmers. It seems the cows weren't even meant to be going into that field, but had followed us in... We quickly got out of there and went for lunch at Travellers Rest in Frodsham, where the food and booze were a bit poor, but the barmaid was nice and enquired as to what we were doing in the area. It was hard to explain.tumpawumpa03/01/2019
From Bushells Lane. RoW due S initially then across a rough, partially gorsey, hillside paddock to base of a pylon.jonglew23/11/2018
From north like others.Moorponder18/06/2018
Along narrow path from North,then easily over fence.Didn't stay long at top,as a horse took a shine to me!catman02/02/2018
Parked at start of footpath in fairly wide driveway at 52046 73632, up driveway, left along path then over a couple of easy fences the final short distance to the top.clivevilla30/11/2017
I parked on the road to the north then used the very narrow RoW. Summit area unexciting, marked by pylon line and horse jumpsColin Crawford06/10/2017
Another forgettable one.. parked at entrance to Birch Hill Cottages and ran up. Says it all if i managed to run it! Pylons dominate the view.stig_nest23/07/2017
Solosimon and co13/03/2017
4th hill of 6 today on a route from Tarporley to Helsby station via Summerhouse Bank, High Billinge and Pale Heights, dropping down from track heading North to join Sandstone trail near Eddisbury lodge and followed this through Delamere forest (stopping for lunch on a bench)branching off on a forest track at SJ534722 heading NW past Eddisbury Way onto New Pale road, also hosting the Delamere Way, East and then North on a bridleway but climbed over fence to explore summit, used for horseriding, 158m on Gps, woods to South explored but nothing higher 65 m South however it did look just as high if not higher at SJ525733 but I didn't have time to explore, the landowner has dropped some large rocks nearby so climbed those too before dropping onto bridleway to continue to Woodhouse hill.Dazingdale04/03/2017
Parked: Junction of start of P/F and New Pale Road SJ 52046 73632. The summit field is a horses playground, luckily none out in the fog.David Evans07/01/2017
Up short cul de sac to no.1 Birch cottages, left along r.o.w over fence under pylons to high point.vegibagger27/07/2016
Short walk up footpath then off-piste to bag mound near pylon.Dugswell222/02/2016
Verge parking in road to SW, lane past houses to sharp left turn through new gate, f/p then up field. Bump under overhead cables but field to S may be as high.Aye Jimmy08/01/2016
Parked in crown green bowling club c/p on Manley Road. Up the Birch Hill houses drive. Along footpath for 100m to end of new fence. Then straight up.ngthack16/12/2015
Made the ascent from Manley Road walking along footpath and then New Pale Road before turning up the lane below the summit - the final footpath was blocked by a local residents horse wagon but easily skirted around to access the stile - a well trodden trail lead up to the summit - despite the wet weather the views in all directions were superb - the remaing part of the trail off the hill is becoming overgrown but passableLittleowl108/07/2015
Run from Helsby to Birch Hill. Access is up what looks like someones drive but there is a small fence to pop over and the summit is at top of hill. No marking to say its there. Great spot all the same. Views over Cheshire countryside.Chris92004/10/2014
Most unsatisfactory top under power lines.PeteF27/10/2013
P start of lane SW of hill.chrisbien08/10/2013
From Helsby via Helsby Hill. Met some friendly cows atop. The roads around here are unpleasant to walk along, some people drive far to fast for comfort.Jake99411/12/2010
This is one of many visits. Pity about the pylons but worth it for the view. Easily accessible from Manley FP 11 that runs just below the summit to the west. I would estimate the summit as SJ 5219 7380.mikh4328/10/2007
pleasant view. from stile at 522737 RHW19/01/2002
In days around Frodsham, walked/ran/cycled the area and hill topsnordicstar10/06/2001
I became very ill, the day I came here, with pleurisy and meningitis (that lead to permanent deafness of my left ear). So, no fond remembrances about Birch HillMartin R01/05/1975
Matt04/12/2022
Wycombe Wanderer26/09/2021
Bag For Life26/09/2021
jamiehighton11/07/2020
fasgadh19/02/2020
TK15/06/2019
PM06/04/2019
Longwojo23/03/2018
carole engel11/02/2018
kathmedwards07/01/2018
Mark Sims14/07/2017