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Name:Williamson Park
Hill number:18871
Height:109m / 358ft
Section:36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines
Classification:Tu,1
Drop:42m
Col:67m  SD497616  
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Entry no.Date recordedGrid Ref.Feature / Observations / SurveyRecorded byStatusSubpointLatest review
921702/08/2015SD 48982 61359  F: ground by large leylandii cypressGeorge Gradwell
Summit
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2368810/06/2018SD 48982 61359  F: ground by tree
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George Gradwell
Summit
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2376810/06/2018SD 48978 61358  F: base of large coniferDavid Gradwell
Summit
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-2499905/01/2015SD 48980 61360  F: ground by treeAye Jimmy
Summit
597605/01/2015SD 48980 61360  F: Ground beside large tree next to small mammals enclosure and behind cafe/shop.
O: Need to pay to get to summit! Currently £3.70.
Aye Jimmy
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 126 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all)ByDate of Ascent
A quick visit heading north.Play2End17/12/2023
Walked from Lancaster Castle, up to the Williamson Park.justin_j_evans12/05/2023
The HB site high spot is defintely BEHIND the cafe. Appropriately called the High Spot Cafe, by going inside you can clearly see that the ground to the rear is a good metre higher than the front. Visited both.moorsman21/04/2023
A day spent exploring and trigpointing in Lancaster. A great park and monument with lovely views over the whole city and out to the coasthiglett20/12/2022
Very impressive monument in a lovely park.Mark Sims14/07/2022
Morning stroll, been up here manytimes, but not to the top before.Flatfield29/06/2022
Seen the Ashton Memorial from the motorway on a number of occasions and always fancied a visit. The Tump gave me the excuse. The Memorial, the Meerkat enclosure and butterfly house all very interesting and worth the visit.hillsman08/06/2022
Whilst on the Lancashire Witches Way with LDWA passed through the park. Busy bank holiday.nickywood102/05/2022
£3.70 to walk around a stump. Thankfully the mammals, Lepidoptera, reptiles, arachnids and reptiles made it money well spent on a blustery and foggy afternoon.summitter28/01/2022
11 of 11 on 40 mile bike ride. Great finale nice parkThe-Z-Man28/07/2021
Easy bag from the CP.robertphillips11/10/2020
In Lancaster for the day so went on a short walk. Prior to 1800 and before this beautiful park was created, this hill was known as Gallows Hill and was the site of all executions in the county of Lancashire, including the hanging of 9 of the Pendle Witches in 1612.sturuss11/07/2020
Parked in street near to the park then walked in to get FBM, thought we might as well bag the tump as well. Quite a few people about. Earlier that day re-bagged Wards Stone and bagged Wolfhole Crag and Nicky Nook. Hot and sunny with clear skies but quite hazy so you couldn't see the Lakes from summit.DanTrig20/05/2020
Our second visit here, enjoyed the walk in the park.Delta6812/02/2020
We came to bag the Fundamental Bench Mark but also logged the Ashton Memorial (intersection point) and the registered hill. A fine Victorian? designed park (gates / railings / lakes / bridges / rock outcrops) and the fabulous Ashton Memorial.briandavies02/01/2020
Parked to the SW in car park (£2.00). Possibly the only Tump to have meercats at the summit. Enjoyed a big Yorkshire pudding in the cafe afterwards.David Evans09/12/2019
Very enjoyable.summitsup24/11/2019
A delightful walk around free Willianson park, but paid my £4 to get a few m closer to the rather indistinct HP by a small meerkat enclosure. Butterfly house warm on a cool day. by parking on the road you can avoid the £2 pay and display carpark. on own all day.Denise 23/11/2019
Mainly here for the FBM.agentmancuso02/11/2019
After a visit to the butterfly house. Top is by the remains of a tree between a cafe (great place to watch the humans trying to run) and a meerkat enclosure. The park is as glorious as ever.fasgadh18/10/2019
Paid the £4 to visit the high point on W side of the Meerkat enclosure. Tree now gone, only 2 stumps remaining. Butterfly / hot house worth the visit, less sure about the Meerkats.RichardM23/08/2019
Summit apparently where the tree is next to the meerkat enclosure. Visited on a day out to the Ashton Memorial and Butterfly HouseWayne Mac31/05/2019
Visited on a day out to Williamson park and Ashton memorialBellesmountains31/05/2019
Delightful park with a very impressive memorial building. Very different.Campbell Singer03/11/2018
Car Park to SE (SD487611) - charges from 10am to 5 pm, gates open outside these hours. The summit is by a tree in the animal enclosure - access thru' gap where fence meets wall SD 49013 61383. Hill summit photo is wrongcarole engel15/09/2018
ParkRunDavid8401/01/2018
Excellent park-excellent butterfly house etc.A credit to Lancaster.With Lily.catman17/09/2017
With Lily,after Catman's tour.rosiebridge17/09/2017
With Grandma.lilyrosieives17/09/2017
Day trip to Lancaster on train, out first visit. Checked hillbagging on phone in the excellent Music Room cafe on arrival and pleasantly surprised to find a TuMP in town. Well worth the walk to Williamson Park with it's excellent Ashton Memorial, Stunning views on a clear day. £3.80 entry to Butterfly House for official summit location, but probably just as high by the fence to the east which is FOC.Hillsidenick14/09/2017
A few times with various sponsored walks, today I drove down from the Trough of Bowland and the Top of Blaze Mossbardolph13/04/2017
Torrisholme Barrow & Williamson Park with David. From Lancaster railway station. Summit is a by a tree, next to the meerkat enclosure, in a animal compound!ADT01/04/2017
Crossed the summit during an orienteering event in the park.JohnW01/10/2016
During a Dukes performance of The Hobbit around the park.lecube04/08/2016
A fascinating steep country park with rocky dells and ornamental walks and Lancashire's impressive answer to the Taj Mahal in the Ashton Memorial. Built 1907 for £80K out of Portland limestone and steps of Cornish granite. Nicely busy park on our sunny saturday afternoon visit with also a wedding taking place. Darren talked our way in to the animal enclosure for free to stand on the hill top for a minute next to a tree by the Meerkat enclosure -new for 2016.Chris Pearson23/07/2016
In the little animal enclosurevegibagger21/07/2016
Nice park, also a FBM and 4 other benchmarks in the park. HP could be in the meerkat enclosure, or by the cafe, or a rock outcrop a little to the S of the supposed top.jonglew03/06/2016
Lancashire completed.ngthack09/05/2016
£3.80 gets you an extra 1m. Open 10-4, I arrived just after the 3.15 last entry time. Said I didn't mind a few minutes less! Interesting place, Sir Lancelotl the Oxelotl :-)RHW05/03/2016
With Jo, from Lancaster Railway Station. Lovely views from top of Ashton Memorial and, as AJ states, the park is very interesting as are the residents of the Butterfly House. Lancaster was nice also. Weather; generally sunny, mild, good visibility.amblerbob18/02/2016
Now up to £3.80, except that the indoor Butterfly House was closed for building work. So instead they charged me a pound to look at some rather sad-looking rabbits on the summit area. The park website says it's only 50p to visit the memorial viewing gallery, but there was a wedding on and I didn't want to spoil their special day.Pete R06/11/2015
Visited after orienteeringJK16/06/2015
High point is indeed behind cafe/shop by large fir next to small mammals enclosure. £3.70 to see this one, money well spent to see mammals, birds, reptiles, butterflies. Rest of park interesting too.Aye Jimmy05/01/2015
Several times, Hill reps with L&MRonald02/09/2014
I spent so many times going past this summit as a short cut for school cross country runs (which LRGS pupils didn't), finally remembered to take the last few yards to the summit today.JohnStoneham24/08/2014
With Bert.campagvelocet09/06/2014
W/- Annette, Sam and Joseph. Hardly noticed the top. Does the Ashton Memorial count?gary.jones408/06/2014
Agree top behind cafe/shop. £3.70 admission to Butterfly House - top by small mammals areaBramley14/04/2014
Location of highpoint not clear but appears from visit to be behind the Butterfly House at about SD 48975 61351 as per 1:10k map (109m spot). Closed when we were there so leaving it unticked, the Butts said to be well worth a look anyway, another time...RHW05/04/2014
Climbed again after finding the FBM and the cut mark on the 1868 stone bench. Then off around Lancaster to find more cut marks.Dugswell224/02/2014