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N.B. Some hill summits are on private property or on land where there is no public right of way. Permission should be sought from the landowner where access to a hill summit is through private land.
Please report via the contact page any logs you see below which describe or encourage acts of trespass. Please quote the hill number and hill name.
| Logged Descriptions (logged by 32 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Parked at 42882 71596, along very muddy row then up field edge past Private sign to woods. | clivevilla | 24/01/2024 |
| Walking the Roman Way from East Garston and the hill was close by. | PhilipChaston | 01/10/2023 |
| A drive around the Newbury-Oxford area. Hoar Hill; Bussock Hill; Snelsmore East Common; Grimsbury Castle; Warren Hill; Blewburton Hill; Wittenham Clumps. | Mark Jackson | 29/04/2023 |
| Parked near Boxford Church, along f/p then edge of field into wood. Second summit felt higher but not according to GPS devices. | Aye Jimmy | 08/10/2022 |
| From Boxford church. Visited both tops. | PGCE | 30/10/2020 |
| As Campbell Singer. There is a Private no RoW sign as you leave the RoW to follow the wide field margin up. Lots of grassy tracks make visiting the summit area pleasant to walk on, even the woodland NW top was not too vegetated. It's all a well managed pheasant shoot with a great variety of shrubs. Today I managed to avoid disturbing pheasants or gamekeepers. | pwheeler | 25/09/2020 |
| 4th and final tump on a traverse from Hermitage to Wickham Heath, climbing Grimsbury Castle, Snelsmore East Common and Bussock Hill, following fp that drops down onto Winterbourne road via the church then used fp that separates Hoar Hill and Boxford Common to use field margin with the intention of easily entering wood from the North but human activity next to boundary meant that i played it safe so i contoured round on field out of sight before entering wood from East, picked my way through wood to reach hut then easily from there on track to top of woodland with spaced out trees. Descent from Southern edge of woodland involved scaling deer fence twice to reach Lambourn Valley way. I took the bridge over the river to reach the road and followed Coombesbury lane but used shortcut via 127m spot through woodland to reach fp that took me to Wickham Heath and my bus stop for the bus back to Newbury. | Dazingdale | 21/03/2020 |
| as for Campbell Singer | arranc | 25/08/2018 |
| Parked next to Boxford Church. Along fp and then headed up field edge onto track and into well maintained woodland. | Campbell Singer | 29/03/2018 |
| From the bridleway to the W - good views back over Newbury & to Cottington Hill ( with its TV mast ), Beacon Hill & Sidown Hill. | DanMaisieBex | 21/01/2017 |
| Parked near church in Boxford then used RoW above river to access field then summit wood with a few pheasants. | Dugswell2 | 03/11/2016 |
| Boxford to Hermitage. | Smudge | 28/10/2016 |
| Since 1976 the River Lambourn flowing past the hill has been used to transport water extracted upstream from boreholes in the chalk downs to London for extraction, although not in the quantities hoped for. | Chris Pearson | 25/05/2016 |
| Parked in what appeared to be an infrequently used gateway to the N and followed field edges until heading directly through the trees, brambles, nettles etc. | Herbert Anchovy | 16/05/2016 |
| From Boxford as others, initially along FP then field and wood edges. | PeterD | 30/04/2016 |
| As ngt: Inner field overgrown, but found track along NE edge. | GordonAdshead | 04/09/2015 |
| From Boxford church. Riverside path to field. Up NW ridge along field margin, then wood edge to NE of top & up tractor track into wood to summit. Big black pheasant feeder near summit. Pheasants all over the place. No pluckers though. Archaeological dig taking place in field to east. Roman site apparently. | ngthack | 29/08/2015 |
| Approached from S on RoW, cut NE across stubble field then into wooded top and along ridge following pheasant farmer's tracks down into Boxford. | jonglew | 10/10/2014 |
| (1) Woodland, SE top; (2) NW top SU 43227 71164 lower. (1) From N, long clockwise circuit via field edges; (2) from NW, Boxford, RoW then path up NW ridge is easier - our return route | RHW | 08/04/2012 |
| walk along path then cut up, top in woodland. | Adrian | 03/03/2011 |
| Minto | 09/08/2023 | |
| SteveG | 09/08/2023 | |
| johnkenyon | 06/11/2022 | |
| Martin R | 03/10/2022 | |
| Matt | 05/06/2021 | |
| Wycombe Wanderer | 24/12/2019 | |
| RichardM | 07/05/2018 | |
| DC11main | 18/09/2017 | |
| andrew brown | 21/09/2016 | |
| Swindon Bagger | 24/01/2016 | |
| BrianMatthews | 07/07/2015 | |
| stevent0809 | 01/01/2014 | |
| ajwxyzt | 08/04/2012 |