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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 63 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| 15 of 17. From High Barnet station on the Northern line and then used the 107 bus. There’s no access to the summit so had to make do with the closest ROW that runs by the farm. (Every access point or track is heavily covered by CCTV). | WAYNE ROWLETT | 23/07/2023 |
| Detour from London LOOP. Visited highest publicly accessible area, but people wondering round the farm dissuaded me from going further | lerritt | 07/08/2022 |
| London Borough High Points (Bagging Bournwell Hill, Arkley, Highwood Hill, Wakemans Hill Avenue, both Bushey Heaths and Deacons Hill) | PhilipChaston | 14/08/2021 |
| Re-visit for new summit. | andrew brown | 16/12/2020 |
| Done on a 61 km cycle from Battersea, lovely sunny day again. Got as close as everyone else managed, doesn’t look like the sort of place that welcomes baggers... | Rockdoctor | 13/06/2020 |
| The fourth and last L Borough Top of the day. The four highest Tops remain. A couple of days rest then Sutton on Friday, Harrow on Saturday and then a very long day on Sunday to finish with Croydon and Bromley. Got as close as possible, all entrances, gates and paths closed and blocked - what have they got to hide? | pclyndes | 31/05/2020 |
| Lockdown bike ride from home in Oakwood. This time managed to get to the actual summit by climbing over the gate from the east mentioned in other logs. Ran into a groundskeeper on the way down - my third time being caught trespassing over the years. Greater London Tumps (re-)completed. | Mark Jackson | 25/04/2020 |
| Penultimate top of the day. Beautiful afternoon light so had to walk past farm along the lane, squeezing into a walled paddock then across a track to follow line of electric taped fences, squeezing under the summit paddock (shocking!) High point overlooks farm but no responses today thankfully. Continued by profiling around via two more fences to get back onto fp heading for my last Herts top in Shenley... | Dazingdale | 19/01/2020 |
| Got as close as felt comfortable. Signs and cameras everywhere. Horses & Private:Keep out signs go together etc wherever! Also it really isn't that important, to me at least. A boring top. | Sixtyplus | 30/08/2019 |
| A July evening with good light at 10 pm. Bus to Brickfield Lane, S along Hendon Wood Lane, over the hay bale gate, up the sloping pasture and over a fence to the summit in the paddock. Walked on to Arkley. | Nick Down1 | 09/07/2019 |
| A dusk raid, over the gate and bales. | PGCE | 13/04/2019 |
| Walked around the road perimeter. Didn't even try to seek access after seeing previous comments. Close enough for me - the thrill is in the journey! :-) | jedthehumanoid | 06/02/2019 |
| Did not get over the bales by the blocked gate. | arranc | 28/06/2018 |
| From Hendon Wood Lane, over gate and large straw bales. Not spotted. Horses not in summit paddock. Stable staff probably at lunch. | Campbell Singer | 29/03/2018 |
| As close as you can get. All looks pretty much same night and according to the map Arkley to the north is higher anyway. | Swindon Bagger | 24/03/2018 |
| From Hendon Wood Lane in drizzle | PeterD | 05/06/2017 |
| 95km bike ride with Tribe: London to Great Missenden. With GFE. | Fionalevey | 01/04/2017 |
| 8/16 Eight of sixteen on London Borough Top bagging day (The Vale/Horsenden Hill/Sudbury Hill/Wakemans Hill Avenue/Bushey Hill (Boundary)/Highgate/Highgate Hill/Highwood Hill/Bournwell Hill (Hadley Wood)/Pole Hill/Wanstead Flatts/Marks Gate/Cabin Hill/Havering Atte Bowe Farm/Havering Atte Bowe Church/Potter Street Hill) | Fergalh | 20/08/2016 |
| As RHW: over big hay bags defending gate to NE | GordonAdshead | 26/06/2016 |
| Access nightmare. Watch out for electric fences and angry horses. | andrew brown | 24/06/2016 |
| From field gate on Hendon Wood Lane. Across paddocks and fences to HP. Dusk, so unseen from brightly lit stables to W. | jonglew | 04/12/2015 |
| TD C & H by bus. Asked to proceed to top on private land denied. | This Dog | 02/11/2015 |
| As close/high as you can get with J while on the London LOOP. Approx date. | NotReallyABagger | 30/06/2015 |
| Pleased to properly get to this one. In the dark over fence from east into grassy field and up to paddock summit. Kept torch off. | Chris Pearson | 24/04/2015 |
| Parked on Nan Clark's Lane and walked up the stables driveway to the first duck pond. That looked to be highest without trespassing or getting strange looks from horseriders. | Nick | 18/01/2015 |
| As per 1:25k, paddock summit, from ENE, first light, all quiet. | RHW | 14/12/2014 |
| Bike ride from home in Oakwood: Bournwell Hill - Mote End Farm (only got as far as the end of the driveway to the SSE) - Deacons Hill. Then got a puncture in Elstree and had to walk back. What a waste! | Mark Jackson | 01/11/2014 |
| To farm gate with Catrien | squeegs | 17/11/2013 |
| Walked along lane to farm. Seems that the highest is in a field on the farm, not the farm gates as shown in the current summit photo. 1:25k OS map seems to bear that out. No chance of a trespass as the fences too high and security cameras everywhere, so got as close as could on RoWs. | Hillsidenick | 21/07/2013 |
| Visited With Darren while trying to visit all the high points on London in one day. | magirob | 10/01/2013 |
| 'Bagged' this, erm, hill as part of 5 north London borough tops whilst on my way to the 2012 Xmas party. More accurately, got out of car at assumed highest point and then drove off again. | RichieRambler | 06/12/2012 |
| En route to Weybridge after work, after Hadley Wood and Arkley drove onto Mote End. Up Lane to stables under cover of dark now, agree track back up the lane looks higher than nr farm. 1:25k bears this out...? | nordicstar | 23/10/2012 |
| Bit tricky as lots of private around. Did a quick about turn and jumped out of car. Moot point were top is. The gate pictured looks a bit lower than up the lane. | simon and co | 08/10/2012 |
| Early dawn raid via back route from disused gate on Hendon Wood Lane TQ 22160 94241 | DC11main | 27/11/2011 |
| We were walking and geocaching around the area. nice area, but not much to see. | CandS37 | 03/09/2011 |
| Biked from home (Kew) via Bornwell Hill and Arkley. 4 hours return trip. Biked to the houses of the nicely situated farm. | NilsOS | 19/08/2010 |
| Yet another Borough top we just missed on the LOOP trail. Parked at New Road (off Hendon Wood Lane) and walked across via muddy paths - stables was closest we could get too. | wheresthepath | 21/02/2010 |
| Ate my picnic on a bench near the farm which is about as close as you can get unless you own a horse. | Overthehilljill | 19/10/2009 |
| The gates to the stables were open when I passed by - didn't go in but it didn't look to be significantly higher than the path. | Richard | 19/09/2009 |
| A very security conscious looking stable deters closer investigation. Pleasant footpath route to/from Arkley. | Smudge | 02/03/2008 |
| Closest could get was 153m. Its a stables. | destaylor | 26/02/2008 |
| Halfdecent | 10/02/2024 | |
| BrianMatthews | 28/11/2023 | |
| Martin R | 20/01/2022 | |
| Matt | 07/08/2021 | |
| FinnTumps | 22/11/2020 | |
| bwm | 11/08/2019 | |
| arjh | 15/03/2019 | |
| Bigmiggy | 29/12/2018 | |
| sglennon | 04/04/2018 |