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| Name: | Billinge Hill |
| Hill number: | 16632 |
| Height: | 324.7m / 1065ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2812 Shining Tor |
| RHB Section: | 36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines |
| County/UA: | Cheshire East |
| Catchment: | Mersey |
| Class: | Tump (300-399m) (Tu,3) |
| Grid ref: | SJ 95641 77719 |
| Summit feature: | not recorded |
| Drop: | 45.6m |
| Col: | 279m SJ 9581 7753  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 118 (1:25k) OL24W 268N |
| Observations: | knoll 95m WNW at SJ 95555 77758 is slightly lower; ground 200-250m WNW is 2-3m lower |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 50 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From the SW on the prickly tourist route on a blustery, cool & dry morning. | Dugswell2 | 17/04/2024 |
| As others. Took well defined path from SW which leads from a parking area to a gate (easy to get around) then behind the two houses and zig-zagged my way to the top following path to the wall then onwards to the summit. Muddy with braken, heather and lower trouser snagging brambles the higher you get. | rainonthewindows | 17/03/2024 |
| As others, parked in entrance to grassed-over quarry track to W. - Headed roughly E. W. & N. to end of track & start of a trod/path at SJ 95323 7796 - Up trod, bearing right to join wall, & then trod alongside wall to summit knoll which lies a couple of metres S. of trod. | gerrybowes | 10/02/2024 |
| 6.2 mile circular walk from Rainow with Val. Billinge Hill -> Kerridge. First snow of the winter. | steveb2006 | 03/12/2023 |
| From SW, as others. Lot of tall bracken higher up. To descend: went E, then S through fields. 2 low walls to cross and 2 gates to go through. | PGCE | 02/07/2023 |
| I misread other advice below and tried to use the quarry track that goes into the quarry at the SE corner of the wood. I was met with a loudspeaker informing me I was trespassing and I was asked to leave, so I did. I then tried going up the field outside the wood and got to the higher ground at SJ95557770, the spoil heap some people referred to below. I then realised the suggestions below were for the track to the SW of the area so I went there and followed the zigzag path up in the dark and then followed alonside the wall to the N and got to some higher ground which had the correct GR. As it was in the dark I can't tell which top I reached was higher. | JK | 10/02/2022 |
| From the first bend in the quarry track to SW of summit, go uphill N on a faint path to the wall and follow the trodden path along the wall SE through bramble and bracken to the HP on the edge. Today, the yellow gorse glowed in the sun. The Edge is both steep and overgrown, so a little care needed. The quarry appears long disused. | Denise | 19/11/2020 |
| From the W on old quarry track on path around locked gate. Track swings W and as it swings back E we take path up through trees and gorse to ridge line. Thin path through heather, bilberry, grass reaches quarry edge and potential high point over bedrock. SJ95557, 77758. 100m ESE a mound with flowering gorse is ~1m higher by Abney. This high point is in a hummocky area of what appears to be well consolidated and vegetated quarry spoil. Sunshine and good views. | RichardM | 19/11/2020 |
| Peter and Kay - parked at the quarry access road just past the cottages and followed the path with a couple of wrong turns all the way to the top, not a great view as surrounded by trees, gorse etc etc | PDR365 | 25/05/2020 |
| Parked in entrance to old quarry and followed the track upwards. I think I missed something because I went past and below the hp before ascending and coming back to it. | clivevilla | 11/12/2019 |
| Up old quarry path as others. Path eventually arrived into bracken, then followed wall and through bracken to HP and found stones almost buried. | PeterD | 05/10/2018 |
| Final top of my big 'Sandbach to Bollington Cross via Shining Tor' 24hr hike and quite a little adventure to round it out on. | Alex C | 28/07/2017 |
| 3rd hill of 7 today on a route from Adlington to Macclesfield station, climbing Styperson Park and Nab Head, descending around dense gorse to then head South and SE past copse onto Shrigley road, over fence and one field over gate to cross Harrop brook and onto Spuley lane heading S, brief section on G way, continuing on Hedge road before taking fp South then headed E following fenceline before climbing over at SJ95095 78059 to head over crumbled wall, climbing over another wall near dilapidated machinery then following fenceline SE to directly across from theoretical summit. Climbed through bracken to bilberry/gorse knoll but bracken hindered view. Checked back and forth and recorded 324m @ SJ95426 77833 and SJ95445 77818, however continued through gorse to almost fall over lip of quarry and recorded highest point @ 326m at knoll close to edge at SJ95542 77756 and SJ95551 77751. Descent Nne then E on fp to just below Harrop Fold Farm, onwards for Charles Head.... | Dazingdale | 22/07/2017 |
| Great walking area -circular with Brinks and Whitehills | carole engel | 19/04/2017 |
| Followed excellent route provided by moorsman. Summit is a horse and brambles nightmare. | Campbell Singer | 09/11/2016 |
| Parked at SJ 95208 77764 at junction of old quarry access and road. Followed route similar to moorsman. | David Evans | 07/11/2016 |
| Great walk. Parked at Bollington, along canal to Styperson then Nab Head and Billinge Hill. Red deer and fox spotted. Went up old quarry path at the back of the houses then followed faint path along the summit ridge. Cool summit | John Eley | 24/04/2016 |
| petey | 23/02/2016 | |
| a walk around Billinge Hill, Sponds Hill & Charles Head | joseph mitchell | 18/02/2016 |
| No problems with this hill at all and no need for subterfuge! It is a local favourite with dog walkers to boot! Park to the SW where the quarry access track meets the road (behind the cottages). A good track leads up to the now long abandoned quarry. Follow this to the left as it wends its way upwards, finishing at a pile of spoil. About 30m before it ends look for a path leading off to the left into the gorse. This leads to the summit. Even met a dog walker who told me access was tolerated. 0.68 miles return. 20 minutes. | moorsman | 28/01/2016 |
| 1 of 3 on a circular walk from home. | BobHancock | 18/10/2015 |
| From the east by Billinge Head Farm. Along track then steeply up the east ridge using the hawthorn trees as cover. Summit ridge is a nightmare, overgrown prickly hell. Can't be certain I got the highest point but got as close as I could without turning into a pincushion. Such a shame there's no legit access, views are wonderful and it looks such an attractive hill. Nearby Big Low also looked good. | Jake994 | 19/08/2015 |
| Lane from W behind houses was busy so started from layby to E. Into trees and steeply up to track, then R to clearing. Easiest is track through gorse starting near SJ 9542 7772. Not knowing this till afterwards, awkward scrambling up vegetated quarry led to summit area with three knolls. NW is gorsey/brambley one with three flat stones at SJ 95427 77834, middle one bilberry covered at SJ 95555 77758. Another gorsey knoll to SE looked lower and body armour to reach it. | Aye Jimmy | 07/06/2015 |
| Approx 3.15pm with Les Barcellos. A bit of an awkward little bugger of a hill well protected on the south side by old quarry workings and gorse and barbed wire class stone walls. After going downhill again and through gate east and the up an easterly field access to summit barred further by stone wall with bathed eye fencing on both sides of it. Once up on summit area it is also a Warren of bits of gorse,hawthorn and more barbed wire topped walls, many hollows and bits of old quarry eaten into the south side. Best advice is to go along track to north going to Billinge farm and the climb steeply up the great field before ferreting around the various knolls on the summit ridge till you're satisfied enough options have been visited. | vegibagger | 12/01/2015 |
| Visited the hill and quarry as part of 14.4 mile walk around the area (after covering Chapel-en-le-Frith carnival). Access to actual summit restricted due to quarry. | meltdiceburg | 15/06/2013 |
| nice little hill | AvidSockWearer | 10/01/2013 |
| heather/gorse summit, attractive view, v attractive viewed from road to E. quarry access discouraged, poss best from laybe just S of cottages to SW | RHW | 04/05/2004 |
| fp from east then barbed wire to get over (and back again) | Chris Pearson | 01/09/2003 |
| Matt | 13/02/2022 | |
| Adrian | 10/02/2022 | |
| PM | 23/10/2021 | |
| stevedixon | 26/07/2021 | |
| GreatandPowerful | 21/02/2021 | |
| BaggerGutt | 26/11/2020 | |
| Wycombe Wanderer | 22/10/2020 | |
| Bag For Life | 22/10/2020 | |
| tks365 | 25/05/2020 | |
| Martin R | 13/03/2020 | |
| Nick Canute | 27/01/2020 | |
| steve18566 | 17/02/2019 | |
| andrew brown | 10/04/2017 | |
| IainT | 11/11/2016 | |
| Mark Sims | 14/10/2016 | |
| clique | 06/08/2016 | |
| Alan Caine | 14/06/2016 | |
| Anton | 01/04/2014 | |
| ngthack | 10/12/2013 | |
| davidpettit84 | 02/12/2012 | |
| andrew.allum | 01/01/2000 | |
| GordonAdshead | 01/07/1990 |