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| Name: | Haddenham village |
| Hill number: | 5457 |
| Height: | 38.8m / 127ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2869 Cleeve Hill |
| RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
| County/UA: | Cambridgeshire |
| County (CoH): | Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely (CoH) |
| Catchment: | Wash |
| Class: | Tump (0-99m), Historic County Top (Tu,0,CoH) |
| Grid ref: | TL 46711 75213 |
| Summit feature: | mound on recreation ground |
| Drop: | 37m |
| Col: | 2m TL421758  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 143 (1:25k) 226 |
| Observations: | ground mid way between the mound and the water tower is higher than the base of the mound but inaccessible. North Hill at TL 44498 76183 is also higher than the mound base but lower than the inaccessible ground |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 138 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Haddenham village from GR: TL 46697 75161 | ronaldo333 | 16/04/2024 |
| A brief diversion on the journey home from a stay in Stretham. One of the simplest I've done. 40 yards from the carpark and 5 seconds up the mount, even with slippery mud following all the rain. As unimpressive as many tops, but a nice recreation area. | Sixtyplus | 13/11/2023 |
| Mound at the side of the recreation ground easily accessed from a car park on the north side. Lots of wildflowers | Vulcan | 19/08/2023 |
| Parked next to the mound, which was covered in wild flowers. Better views from the A1123 E of the village. Just passing through on route to a family gathering. | richard69 | 23/07/2023 |
| Happened to be passing. Obvious mound but not best place for a view. | kindpercy | 10/04/2023 |
| A drive up. A long way from anywhere hilly. Cambridgeshire completed. | Mark Jackson | 22/10/2022 |
| In passing. A feeling of greater elevation than I had expected. | summitsup | 09/09/2022 |
| Circular route taking in the Ouse and North Hill, before going to the mound and the newly accessible land between the mound and the water tower in front of the new houses. | welshyboyo | 08/02/2022 |
| Parked by the church and walked over to the mound. It looks like a tumulus. Wandered around the area by the water tower then walked along the main road to North Hill. North Hill is a much better summit. The landowner has opened it up to the public, providing permissive paths to the summit area. There are even seats up there to sit and admire the views. Fabulous! Solo. Stayed overnight in Kings Lynn then went out to visit Ongar Hill (Dewey Noteable Hill Top) the next day. | Dangerous Dave | 03/02/2022 |
| On my way from a flat place in South Lincolnshire to somewhere equally flat in Norfolk. | johnkenyon | 05/01/2022 |
| 13:00, 8 degrees, calm, dank. After Ely Cathedral. With Bag For Life. | Wycombe Wanderer | 18/12/2021 |
| Cycled south from Kings Lynn making good time with the wind behind my back. A small grassy mound at the end of the playing field. | pclyndes | 19/06/2021 |
| Solo on way to Hockey in Ely | garth87 | 03/10/2020 |
| The mound was covered in nettles and brambles, yet had someone asleep on top of it. Easy to find, and I enjoyed the drive across the fens. | edmundjohnson | 26/09/2020 |
| On the way home from Norfolk completion; Cambridgeshire completion. | PGCE | 27/05/2020 |
| My final Cambs tump! I parked up beside the mound, presumably not an abandoned BMX mound and after scaling it in a few steps i continued over the green and visited the spot height on the road (lower) then up to the water tower with highest point recorded just beside garage near water tower gates. Back round to the mound then off to park on hill row. Up footpath (not marked on OS) to orchard planted on top. Public accessible, start at TL44659 75831. Highest point in centre of trees. My reading was 33m compared to 34m near Water tower, so very close...Cambs completed! | Dazingdale | 23/02/2020 |
| Mound | PeteF | 06/12/2019 |
| Not a great deal of note | kjg106 | 07/08/2019 |
| With E. Raining. Mound by recreational ground. 60 seconds, game over. | Beeliner | 28/07/2019 |
| Called as I was visiting the vilaage. | dal | 04/05/2019 |
| On the way to Wicken Fen (lower but more interesting). Up the mound and away...... | petebagger | 08/01/2019 |
| Short walk to mound from car park by recreation ground, wandered around water tower and up road from recreation ground to area of 38m spot height | RobertP | 29/07/2018 |
| drive by! | callumorr | 07/05/2018 |
| Short walk to mound | PeterD | 13/04/2018 |
| Hp is on obvious mound within recreation area on short grass. Pitch black but twinkling Christmas lights pretty. Parking area nearby. OS map suggests it is an old mound; I wonder about its origin? | Denise | 09/12/2017 |
| A visit in darkness at 17:40, area deserted. Only short grass this time of year. | RichardM | 09/12/2017 |
| Parked in The Rampart and walked 5 metres to summit. Forgot Aye Jimmy's advice about dog muck but got lucky with no smelly mishap. CAmbridgeshire completion. Got Magog was the best but competition was not exacting. | Campbell Singer | 22/11/2017 |
| Parked on road next to mound. Playing field very busy today with football. Beware of dog-muck: dogs banned on field but not so in long grass on mound! Now off to Little Ouse for a special trig, the UK's lowest... | Aye Jimmy | 30/09/2017 |
| Cycled from Ely - also did North Hill a mile to the west which has decent views. | Richard | 23/09/2017 |
| TD, C & H. | This Dog | 07/08/2017 |
| mound on playing field. parked next to playing field. | keithelliott | 21/04/2017 |
| Sunrise south of Gainsborough. A1500 trigs, to a breakfast 8am visit to Lincoln cathedral's very beautiful stained glass, to numerous trigs and an FBM on A15 south ...to 4pm Ely cathedral and it's glorious octagonal tower and splendid fan vaulting ceiling. On to Haddenham village en route to friends north of Cambridge | vegibagger | 11/04/2017 |
| Ascended the mound at the edge of the recreation ground with my 3 grandsons Euan, Leo and Seb. | trimarc2 | 21/01/2017 |
| en route back to Corby from N Norfolk. From the CP, stretch legs | nordicstar | 13/01/2017 |
| From rec car park, man made mound. | Bramley | 01/12/2016 |
| A stroll from the recreation car park. | Dugswell2 | 03/09/2016 |
| Rec car park. | squeegs | 02/09/2016 |
| Thank you Mr Glew for the track to the top of the mound, which I used four days later. Cambridgeshire completion & 9 counties completed in 11 days. | ngthack | 03/08/2016 |
| Wandered across to the mound and clawed my way to the top through chest-high vegetation. It is the HP, but it's man-made, but it's old - older than most bings. | jonglew | 29/07/2016 |
| The village must have been a worrying place to live during WWII as there was a bombing decoy airfield located just N of the village to draw enemy bombing away from RAF Wyton airfield. The dummy airfield was both a K type with dummy aircraft and a Q (night) type with lights which resembled an active airfield at night. These dummies / decoys protected many cities / airfields sometimes involving burning fires to look like a city on fire to draw in the next wave of bombers. | Chris Pearson | 01/06/2016 |
| Done on way back from weekend in Suffolk. Easy walk across recreation ground to grassy mound. | Wheelsy | 02/05/2016 |
| 3/9 Hill bagging day consisting of current and historical county tops (Staverton Clump/boring Filed/Haddenham Village/Pinchebeck Marsh/Beacon Hill/Wattisham Airfield/Great Wood/Bushey Heath/Hampstead Heath) | Fergalh | 13/02/2016 |
| Parked in recreation ground and climbed?? mound. Views from road in front of water tower access towards Cambridge worth seeing. | mart0797 | 03/02/2016 |
| Another summit crowned by radio masts - as well as the commercial and telephone type a lucky radio amateur has his home QTH here. Chilly - slipped on ice getting walking back to my car - dropped GPS - oops - I'm going to need that for the next few summits | M3WDD | 22/11/2015 |
| County top outing,parked opposite church in a slip road and walked back to the park only took a couple of minutes once in the park summit not hard to find when you see it you will know you are in the right place | WAYNE ROWLETT | 19/07/2015 |
| Visited on the way home from Norfolk, another one ticked off the list :D | magirob | 25/06/2015 |
| what's to say it's done? | maltose | 23/06/2015 |
| Drove to friend Jeff's in Milton after school from Saffron Walden, Quick drive to village, parked near pub, we walked down to 5m contour, and back up hill via field paths and village roads, back past the car through houses to rec. Did the mound and all high spots on the rec. Took some amazing photos of our giant shadows in the evening sun! Celebrated an actual hill in the fens! in pub! | pdantic | 09/06/2015 |
| Lump of ground in playing fields | Mark Sims | 20/05/2015 |
| Cambridge rush hour: took me over an hour to drive fron Gog/Magog. Wandered round in the dark, but felt that the mound is the HP. Last of an 11-tump 570 mile day. 3 hours back home to Manchester | GordonAdshead | 11/02/2015 |