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Name: | Red Hill |
Hill number: | 16857 |
Height: | 74.9m / 246ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2810 Black Hill |
RHB Section: | 36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines |
County/UA: | Wakefield |
Catchment: | Aire |
Class: | Tump (0-99m) (Tu,0) |
Grid ref: | SE 44221 25211 |
Summit feature: | ground by reservoir compound fence in Redhill Rd |
Drop: | 47m |
Col: | 27.9m SE 4388 2363 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 105 (1:25k) 289S |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 55 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Easy bag, having put Redhill Road, Castleford, into the car satnav. | PGCE | 24/11/2023 |
A trip to Castleford after dropping my daughter back at Uni in Leeds. Red Hill followed by Glasshoughton Colliery Tip. Parked on Redhill Road. | Dave | 23/04/2023 |
Easy parking alongside reservoir compound fence on Redhill Road, ohh well another east tick off | matty1971b | 05/04/2023 |
Easy parking alongside reservoir compound fence on Redhill Road, got out for a breath of fresh air & then on my way. Very quiet residential area. | gerrybowes | 08/05/2022 |
Red Hill from GR: SE 44390 25166 | ronaldo333 | 15/02/2020 |
Red Hill from GR: SE 44390 25166 | Hippster | 15/02/2020 |
On the way to Pontefract | Longwojo | 08/02/2020 |
Drove up to summit. | David Evans | 09/09/2019 |
In Cas Vegas for the beer festival. Walked up from town centre. | jedthehumanoid | 02/11/2018 |
1 of 4 today on 35 mile bike ride starting on ashdene drive in crofton. Red hill, kings mead, Upton beacon, Chevet park | The-Z-Man | 24/12/2017 |
Walked from Excape. Natural top is on N side of Reservoir compound. My 100th English Tump this year. | IanHHill | 21/11/2017 |
Got out of the car, wandered round a few seconds and jumped back in. | Campbell Singer | 02/11/2017 |
On route from Penrith to Pontefract for funeral and dressed accordingly, so good this is a pavement top with no mud or climbing required. Highest point seems to be pavement by speed humps, but very flat top and no way of knowing where highest natural land would have been. | Hillsidenick | 04/10/2017 |
as for yorkie | arranc | 27/03/2017 |
My third hill of today and one that completes Wakefield. Climbed Upton Beacon from Moorthorpe station caught bus to Pontefract and wslked upto King's Mead before continuing to this hill en-route to Castleford bus station. Water towers of this Ilk seem to be quite popular. As others have srated highest ground is close to reservoir gates. Descent via park and cemetery before walking along high to bus station. | Dazingdale | 21/01/2017 |
Another riveting Wakefield UA tump. parked near gate opposite West Mead, walked around car and left. | PeterD | 26/10/2016 |
Wander along road to north of the reservoir with concrete mushroom water tower | vegibagger | 16/10/2016 |
+1 for the road. Visited on way to FA Vase final. | fasgadh | 21/05/2016 |
High point appears to be on the road to the right of the entrance to the fenced enclosure. Nice water tower. | yorkie | 12/01/2016 |
With Jo, linear walk from Castleford Station Red Hill Holywell Trig Glasshougton Station. Weather; sunny intervals, heavy showers, cool breeze, good visibility. | amblerbob | 11/12/2015 |
Got out of van, walked 10 metres, got back in van. Last of Wakefield Tumps . Heavy on fuel, light on boot leather. | ngthack | 01/11/2015 |
Wakefield tump day under dark skies and sometimes drizzle.Mix of town and country.Agree location as other posts-no excitement here.With Oscar. | catman | 29/10/2015 |
With Catman. | oscarrosie | 29/10/2015 |
With Eire, Evan, Sail, Danu & Coel. Alfie stayed in the van. | Dangerous Dave | 04/09/2015 |
Had no map - just memory and aimed for the highest point- straightforward. In 2008 Castleford featured in a 4 episode series Big Town Plan presented by Grand Designs host McCloud, which aimed to see if good design, planning and targeted investment can regenerate communities - in this case Castleford, a down at heel former mining town in Yorkshire? 
To the SE of the town there is now the large Junction 32 multi-store centre and the Xscape Leisure Complex, Europe's largest indoor real snow slope. | Chris Pearson | 13/08/2015 |
Drive up. | Dugswell2 | 02/05/2015 |
shopping in Cas. so paid a visit to this hill | joseph mitchell | 08/01/2015 |
Agree summit appears to be on Redhill Rd, just past gates to reservoir compound and junction with West Mead. Things inside compound obviously higher. | Aye Jimmy | 02/08/2014 |
Recommend a visit to Holywell Woods trig as a partial antidote. I caught the right bus by pure chance. | Martin R | 29/03/2014 |
The summit area is an enclosed reservoir with two transmitters alongside. Three sides are housing so access is impossible, the fourth side is the access to the reservoir and is closed by huge gates. 
 
Although the internal ground is higher than the surrounding land it is man made bases for the internal objects. After walking round the whole area the actual summit (fortunately) appears to be the road! | moorsman | 03/10/2013 |
Rdside, edge of resr compound. | RHW | 13/04/2012 |
PM | 21/01/2024 | |
Matt | 14/08/2023 | |
Halfdecent | 14/04/2023 | |
Mark Sims | 22/09/2022 | |
Tony S | 24/02/2022 | |
Lorna S | 24/02/2022 | |
TrailerMike | 01/01/2021 | |
David84 | 31/07/2020 | |
Wycombe Wanderer | 14/03/2020 | |
Bag For Life | 14/03/2020 | |
Andy West | 03/04/2019 | |
mae | 29/11/2017 | |
carole engel | 25/11/2017 | |
Jacqdaw | 04/10/2017 | |
Alan Caine | 11/10/2016 | |
andrew brown | 09/08/2016 | |
Adrian | 07/02/2016 | |
stevent0809 | 06/02/2016 | |
nylthewheel | 29/06/2015 |