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| Name: | Essington Hill |
| Hill number: | 17341 |
| Height: | 188.9m / 620ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2870 Walton Hill |
| RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
| County/UA: | Staffordshire |
| Catchment: | Trent |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
| Grid ref: | SJ 95660 04009 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: arable |
| Drop: | 48m |
| Col: | 141m SO931995  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 127 139 (1:25k) 219N 244 |
| Observations: | higher ground at SJ95528 03762 is man made |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 36 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Big car park. Easy. | Play2End | 13/12/2023 |
| as per RoguePulsar | johnkenyon | 11/11/2023 |
| From the farm shop. Very busy on this Sunday afternoon. | Alan Caine | 23/07/2023 |
| Essington Farm was closed and locked up, so track to W of the school which leads to the N of the summit field. Duck through gap in BWF then trudge up to summit of ploughed field then exit field using gate to S. Unremarkable and too near the noisy M54. Solo | RoguePulsar | 02/04/2023 |
| From Essington Farm. A member of staff outside said it would be OK to park there and walk to the hill. Truth be known, I don't think he was remotely bothered. Walked past the poly tunnels to the summit, currently fallow, and took in the mound for the hell of it. Staffordshire compleat. Bought some Three Tuns and Holden's beers and some very expensive pear juice and a cola drink from the shop and headed for home. Now drinking the beer and writing this. | Wycombe Wanderer | 08/01/2023 |
| Essington Fruit Farm has been voted the 9th best thing to do in Wolverhampton(even though its in Staffordshire!) on trip advisor (289 votes), one place ahead of a visit to Molineux -the home of Wolves (103 votes).Beaten by a fruit farm! Serves Wolves right as I've never forgiven them for denying Leeds the double in 1972 in a match in front of 53,000 played just 2 days after Leeds won the FA cup and just needed a draw. I suspect those that voted for the fruit farm visited in luscious July rather than a barren miserable muddy day in March with nothing growing although I guess Molineaux must also seem barren and fruitless at times? I dutifully trooped around and up the vegetated earth mound to plant my virtual flag. | Chris Pearson | 23/03/2022 |
| Parked in farm shop CP, walked over the large mound of earth, presume this is not natural, then along field margin until due W of the HP. At this point struck out across a very muddy field with no crop in it, but ready for one. | jonglew | 15/12/2020 |
| Slightly domed newly ploughed muddy field accessed from Road/ gate to South. Parked at the Essington Farm Shop where bemused permission given. The cauliflower and bacon we bought there were excellent. | Denise | 09/12/2020 |
| From the S, field gate then roughly ploughed field to high point at far end. The permanent looking man-made vegetated mound next to farm shop car park also visited. Farm shop has a good range of fresh meat and veg, we bought a cauliflower and bacon for semi-vegetarian dinner tonight. | RichardM | 09/12/2020 |
| As cjo. Then heap of soil on edge of farm shop car park. | PGCE | 09/11/2020 |
| from gateway to south through wheat stubble, very flat | cjo | 27/10/2019 |
| No issues. After closing time. Chap weed spraying in car park to E of track on my return but no challenge | carole engel | 19/04/2019 |
| 1 of 10 on epic 49.3 mile bike ride including church hill, wrens nest, Dudley castle, netherton hill, ridgehill, blackhill, wrottesley hill, tettenhall woods, bushbury hill and essington hill. Looked nothing like the picture as was a full field of corn I had to make my way through and all the way round while trying to avoid being detected | The-Z-Man | 15/09/2018 |
| I walked to the track to see a tractor just ahead driving away. I didn't want to follow him without permission so instead I decided to cross the field from the car park and climb up the mound there instead, calling that the summit as it looked just as high anyway. | Alancache | 03/05/2018 |
| 2nd tump of the day after an out and back to Bushbury from Moseley Old Hall. This time i deposited my mum at the Essington Farm coffee shop then ventured up the waterlogged lane turning East along the margin then stepped over low b wire fence and headed for summit. Marked several contenders- fierce wind from the East meant gps reading 193-196m. Spent 5 mins wandering about checking and rechecking before re-tracing route back to the Essington farm car park. Also checked out Woodland top to West near transmission tower but only got 185m, but there are amazing vivid Red fungi in there so not a wasted trip. Ps No sign of man-made mound now! | Dazingdale | 17/03/2018 |
| From the farm shop, up muddy track, through wood and then over the arable field which still had the stubble from last year’s crop. Returned along road. | Herbert Anchovy | 19/02/2018 |
| From Essington Farm Shop. Along track and through woods. On return I was met by the owner, Mr Richard Simkin, who was OK when I explained what I was doing. His shop and restaurant seems to sell good quality produce, so went in for an early morning coffee. | Campbell Singer | 29/08/2017 |
| From the farm shop via the track and forest edge (nice bluebells) then south across the field over summit to lane. | davidpettit84 | 14/05/2017 |
| Same as clivevilla. Early morning so garden centre not open, but plenty of staff around. Luckily none challenged me. There will be a lovely showing of bluebells in the tree belt in a couple of weeks. | David Evans | 08/04/2017 |
| There is a, quite possibly man-made, mound at the field edge at 95651 04073. It has a mature tree growing out of it so I think it can be treated as permanent. Also walked down the tractor line to hp in field. | clivevilla | 04/04/2017 |
| Pumpkin fair at garden centre today, so very busy, parked with hundreds of others, but decided to walk along road and then across field to HP. Dry October meant there was no mud to negotiate. | PeterD | 23/10/2016 |
| From Essington Farm Shop, construction work going on. Lane N to wood, side of wood then into wood, out at end into ploughed field. Vague summit out in field. | Aye Jimmy | 14/10/2016 |
| Parked at gate of farm shop after hours and wondered what the heck I was doing wandering a ploughed field. Theres a large piled up earth mound at the field edge which is obviously man made but is certainly more interesting. | stig_nest | 21/04/2016 |
| Parked at garden centre. North up lane to tree belt. Then east for 200 metres & south into ploughed field for 50 metres. Ended up with Staffordshire mud stilts. | ngthack | 25/11/2015 |
| Parked by farm shop. Went over artificial mound which is higher than summit in adjacent ploughed field. | Adrian | 14/11/2015 |
| With Cabe. | simon and co | 07/11/2015 |
| Burns Day plough. | arranc | 25/01/2015 |
| Miserable Ploughed Field | GordonAdshead | 18/01/2015 |
| 193m, c 40m into ploughed field. | RHW | 03/03/2012 |
| DC11main | 23/03/2023 | |
| Martin R | 09/09/2021 | |
| andrew brown | 03/08/2020 | |
| BrianMatthews | 28/03/2017 | |
| Mark Sims | 14/04/2016 | |
| stevent0809 | 24/01/2015 | |
| andrew brown | 27/12/2014 |