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| Name: | Brown Willy |
| Hill number: | 2881 |
| Height: | 420m / 1378ft |
| RHB Section: | 40: Cornwall & Devon |
| County/UA: | Cornwall |
| County (CoH): | Cornwall (CoH) |
| County (CoA): | Cornwall (CoA) |
| Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Camel, Fowey |
| Watershed: | Land's End to John o' Groats, Land's End to Dover, The Lizard to Dunnet Head |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Tump (400-499m), Historic County Top, Current County/UA Top, Administrative County Top, Clem (Ma,Hu,Tu,4,CoH,CoU,CoA,Cm) |
| Grid ref: | SX 15873 80004 |
| Summit feature: | trig point and cairn |
| Drop: | 314m |
| Col: | 106m SS268015  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 201 (1:25k) 109 |
| Observations: | cairn is 3m E of trig point |
| Survey: | obvious summit |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 512 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Great January walk from the Rough Tor car park over Showery Tor and Rough Tor. Apart from boggy ground leaving the car park was hard frozen ground which gave good going. Any icy patches were few and far bebeween. | KevPalmer | 16/01/2024 |
| Easy, walked around rough Tor first. Than up bw. Back over rough tor. 1.50 min | tallblond | 26/09/2023 |
| Ran from Jamaica Inn - to Tolborough Tor, then onto Brown Willy and Butters Tor | madaddo | 13/09/2023 |
| From the car park to the NW, over Rough Tor and almost a straight line over the bridge up to Brown Willy. Got caught in a short sharp downpour on the top of Brown Willy whilst at the geocache, otherwise overcast and breezy. With Gillian | richard69 | 25/08/2023 |
| 5 of 5 from the Jamaica inn. From Alex tor followed the farm track most of the way before going over rough ground before meeting the track for brown Willy. Lots of wild horses on the track. 13.5 miles round trip. Marilyn no. 76 | The-Z-Man | 25/07/2023 |
| From Rough Tor car park - Rough Tor, Brown Willy and Loudon Tor with Jon, Alex and Paul. Don't try and bash through the bracken like we did... | Richard | 12/07/2023 |
| With Rebecca, including Rough tor | mazz | 01/07/2023 |
| From rough tor car park | Stevooo | 26/06/2023 |
| Out and back from Rough Tor car park to end of Brown Willy summit ridge, scrambling up Showery Tor, BW, Rough Tor and Little Rough Tor en route. Bracken high in places and appeared to be prime tick country, caught a couple of the buggers before they could bite! Great views and decent rocky summits with easy terrain in between. | southern_rambler | 18/06/2023 |
| From Roughtor car park (SX137819), across the hillside to Rough Tor, descending SE to where the permissive track crosses a stream (SX152804), then up track to summit, returning back to stream, across hillside to col between Rough Tor and Showery Tor, and back to start (2h10m) | kdbennett | 22/03/2023 |
| Humid day out with all of us. Flying ants! | AJones | 02/09/2022 |
| From Rough Tor car park. Nice September afternoon out :-) | Gerry the Ranger | 02/09/2022 |
| Rough Tor, Little Rough Tor, Showery Tor, Brown Willy, and back via Fernacre settlement. | mavero10 | 24/06/2022 |
| From Rough Tor car park on a round of Louden Hill, Garrow Tor, Butters Tor, Brown Willy and Rough Tor. | PeterD | 22/05/2022 |
| From Rough Tor cp. Brown Willy and Rough Tor. | Longwojo | 21/05/2022 |
| Drizzle and low cloud | ParkerP1960 | 15/05/2022 |
| Out and back to Brown Willy from Rough Tor car park via Rough Tor. With R. | Dan Baddeley | 16/04/2022 |
| A tour of the tors ... Showery, Rough, Brown Willy, Butter's and Garrow. Tried for Louden Hill but the farmer outside the farmhouse to the SE was resistant to passage along his farm track. | summitter | 10/04/2022 |
| Parked at the Forestry Carpark near Camelford. Up to Showery Tor then Brown Willy and returned via Rough Tor. Jackie went as far as Showery Tor. Easy walking mainly on clear paths. Blustery day, gale force on the summit | climbingkershaw | 05/04/2022 |
| Jamaica Inn - Tolborough Tor - Brown Willy - Rough Tor - Buttern Hill - Bray Down - Leskernick Hill - Hendra Downs - Jamaica Inn. | Mark Jackson | 26/01/2022 |
| Drove to the usual carpark at SX 138 818 then walked to Rough Tor, Little Rough Tor and Showery Tor. From there we followed the permissive path to Brown Willy Trig and cairn. Same route in reverse for the return walk. Dry day, cloudy at first then brightened, hazy views. Approx 5 miles with 793ft of ascent. Walked with Lindsey. | Skip | 24/11/2021 |
| Rough Tor > Brown Willy from GR: SX 13777 81922 | ronaldo333 | 28/10/2021 |
| Rough Tor > Brown Willy from GR: SX 13777 81922 | Hippster | 28/10/2021 |
| Climbed from Camelford on a 'rest day' while walking the Copper Trail. | BURGESS | 12/09/2021 |
| Wild horses looked mean, easy climb from the west, took the slightly trickier but quicker descent down the rocks. | mrdolf | 03/09/2021 |
| From Rough Tor car park | paulhilder | 31/08/2021 |
| Walked to the summits of Brown Willy and Rough Tor with my cousin. A great sunny day with a mix of large rocks to climb at the top of Rough Tor and Showery Tor. A great and fun top to do Cornwall is. | DavidHiner | 25/08/2021 |
| With the kids. Could see the sea on both sides or Cornwall from the top. Windy but good day avoiding the showers. | SlowOl | 31/07/2021 |
| We followed a route from a book which maybe wasn't ideal. From Rough Tor car park, up to Showery Tor, down past the long house and over to the corner of the fence and followed a stone bank. Then we had to climb over a barbed wire fence which was not mentioned in the book! Up to Maiden Tor, then Brown Willy. Back via Little Rough Tor and Rough Tor. With Keith, Ross (5) and Callum (3). | islamidget | 29/07/2021 |
| P Roughtor CP to NW, easy ground up over Showery Tor & Rough Tor, lunch on top then on along ridge down & up to Butter's Tor. 300th Marilyn, at long last, with F. | agentmancuso | 06/07/2021 |
| Boys' Trip to Cornwall 2021 | cwrci | 03/07/2021 |
| Via Showery Tor with Sie, Gill and Gaynor. Beautiful day. | Phreerunner | 08/06/2021 |
| with Evelyn after Roughtor | jd16 | 08/05/2021 |
| Poldue Downs CP - Little Rough Tor - Rough Tor - Brown Willy - Showery Tor - CP | IanHHill | 17/04/2021 |
| Mostly hazy/cloudy but good views. Light wind, dry ground. | anderson24 | 02/04/2021 |
| Enjoyable 10K run in the sun over the moors from road end to W plus scrambling up W ridge of Rough Tor. | davechaffey | 15/03/2021 |
| Parked at Rough Tor car park. Visited Little Rough Tor, Rough Tor & Showery Tor on the way. Bagged the trig on Brown Willy. Sunny. 5.4 miles ( but should have been 6.3 miles as forgot to start watch ) | madsam | 16/10/2020 |
| MC. Following work. 1hr 15m from CP. Plenty of horses and cows! | Martin66 | 29/09/2020 |
| On way to Cornwall with J. Glorious day & plenty of folk on the hill. From the FC car park to NW. Over the various tops of Rough Tor noticing two strange small model buildings in sheltered spots a few metres to W below the summit of Showery Tor. Ponies as far as the eye could see! Then followed the faint path down to the De Lank River & up to Brown Willy for a superb view. Retraced steps. | NotReallyABagger | 26/09/2020 |
| Climbed solo. Excellent weather. Dry, mostly sunny with some haze and cloud. Start from Poldue Downs car park. Climbed over Showery Tor. Descend to De Lank River (pathless). Over Maiden Tor to gain north ridge of Brown Willy, and climbed to summit. Kernow's highest point boasts an excellent cairn and viewpoint. Visited south top as well. Returned along good path to De Lank River, before making a direct (but easy) ascent of Little Rough Tor. A short ridge walk south leads to the main summit of Rough Tor, where a little scrambling on boulders is required. Returned to car park at Poldue Downs (slightly rough at first, then easy grassy path). Excellent walk of about 3 hours through some surprisingly good hill country. | jamessteel100 | 15/08/2020 |
| Brown Willy from the NT Car Park. Visiting Rough Tor, Brown Willy, Butter's Tor, Garrow Tor, Alex Tor, and Louden Hill. A very wet and windy day with low cloud. Brown Willy is my last E + W Marilyn!!!! 17km with 720m ascent in 5 hours. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 03/11/2019 |
| Good walk on a warm day. Went up via Shower Tor and Rough Tor with a more direct descent. Shared the summit with millions of flies, didnt stay long! | acolling | 26/08/2019 |
| From free Rough Tor car park to the NW. Showery Tor (385m), Little Rough Tor (390m) and Rough Tor (400m). Then a nice walk across to Brown Willy. Pleasant and easy. Showery Tor was the most difficult to climb. With Clare, Eire, Evan, Sail, Danu, Coel & Alfie. Had a pint in The Jamaica Inn afterwards. | Dangerous Dave | 05/08/2019 |
| Part of a walk with Liz including Rough Tor | Paul_142_uk | 10/07/2019 |
| From Roughtor Road car park. Over Rough Tor and Logan Rock. First of my historic county tops. | pclyndes | 15/06/2019 |
| From Codda, after a little nosey at the Jamaica Inn. Grassy fields then good path along fence line to final steepening pull. 2/5 Marilyn | N.Morters | 28/04/2019 |
| From Rough Tor car park to the NW. Over Rough Tor climbing many of the rocky tors, then on to Brown Willy, returning over Rough Tor, | NormanW | 30/03/2019 |
| Bolventor to Altarnun. Revisited via different route. | Smudge | 29/03/2019 |
| From Roughtor car park. | lenman | 01/01/2019 |
| Quick march in the morning cold from the Roughtor car park. Early enough that nobody else was around yet. Felt like I had the whole of Bodmin moor to myself. | jkl | 31/12/2018 |