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| Name: | Challacombe Down |
| Hill number: | 17492 |
| Height: | 463m / 1519ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2877 High Willhays |
| RHB Section: | 40: Cornwall & Devon |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Dartmoor |
| County/UA: | Devon |
| Catchment: | Dart, Catchment Boundaries, Teign |
| Class: | Tump (400-499m) (Tu,4) |
| Grid ref: | SX 68995 80428 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: ground by wall |
| Drop: | 38m |
| Col: | 425m SX689809  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 191 (1:25k) OL28N |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 34 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Down the hill from Hameldown then a short steep grind to the top following stone wall. | fnem | 29/11/2022 |
| Hamel Down, Hookney Tor, Challacombe Down from near Firth Bridge. | RobertP | 02/02/2022 |
| P Bennett's Cross; Birch Tor, Hookney Tor, Hamel Down & Challacombe Down with Fiona. | agentmancuso | 07/07/2019 |
| With Jo, from Bennett’s Cross car park: Birch Tor, Challacombe Down and then onto Hameldown (trig and top). Weather; generally cloudy, cold wind, moderate views. | amblerbob | 10/04/2019 |
| Sunny walk after parking near Bennett's Cross. Then up Birch Tor and onward to Challacombe Down. | Dugswell2 | 29/03/2019 |
| Round of Hookney Tor, Hameldown Tor, Hamel Down, Challacombe Down and Birch Tor. With Jenx and Bryher on a glorious day | nordicstar | 29/03/2019 |
| Some interesting things to see. Grimspound, Stone row, and old mining scars. | jenx | 29/03/2019 |
| From parking and stile at SX 6954 8023 - wide grassy track leads to stream. At SX 6945 8019 take path half right thru' reeds and stream (currently dry) to mapped BW. North to wall - not much of a path up wall but easy going. Path from summit to Birch Tor. Lovely circular walk using Two Moors Way and BW. | carole engel | 28/06/2018 |
| Short round of 4 Dartmoor hills, this the last. From Hameldown. Return to car at SX 6797 8159. Lot of bracken. | jonglew | 22/06/2018 |
| Parked at roadside near brow of hill and went up Hookney Tor, across to Hameldown then straight doen and across the road and up Challacombe Down and completed the round with Birch Tor. Paths nearly all the way. | clivevilla | 14/11/2017 |
| Summit is by wall- apparently an ancient rabbit breeding enclosure. Purple heather to N and grass to south of wall ( easier walking) with a stile near the summit to cross the wall. We approached from the East, crossing the river over boggy pathless Access land and returned north, finding a delightful unmarked path along the ridge then west to Vitifer mine, linking with the other mapped paths | Denise | 13/08/2017 |
| Large levelish summit with high point crossed by rabbit proof wall. Grass S side, heather N side. Could probably have found an easier route than the one we took from Grimspound with barbed wire fences, marsh and chest high bracken . | RichardM | 13/08/2017 |
| Another fascinating stone row passed on the way across the ridge to the high point. | Dangerous Dave | 12/06/2017 |
| Continuation from Birch Tor. Followed path south to a col, then onwards by a stone row and up to a wall, with gate. To descend, dropped east to the road, following it south for several kilometres, then drover's track over the south shoulder of Hameldown and back down to Widdecombe. Solo. | Man of Kernow1 | 29/04/2017 |
| 11/14 of long but satisfying hill bagging day (Hay Tor/Rippen Tor/Top Tor/Chinkwell Tor/Hound Tor/Heatree Down/Easdon Tor/Black Hill/Mardon Down/Birch Tor/Challacombe Down/Hamel Down/Hookney Tor/Cornden Tor | Fergalh | 13/06/2015 |
| Verge parking to south east at 695803 where a stile over the fence gives access to the open access area. Follow this down, across the river and turn right along the main track. Follow this to the wall where a path leads upwards crossing through the fence via a bridle gate. | moorsman | 21/08/2014 |
| 500m Dewey & 400m tops circuit with Lesley from Postbridge (B&B). White Ridge - Assycombe Hill - Birch Tor -Challacombe Down -Hameldown - then back on lanes & through forest. | Chris Pearson | 19/02/2009 |
| A long walk from Bellever, taking in Hameldon, Hockney Tor, Challacombe Down, Birch Tor, Merripit Hill, Assycombe Hill and White Ridge. | Jake994 | 01/08/2006 |
| heather/tussock summit by wall, nice view. from layby to E, bracken, prob best from NW with Birch Tor | RHW | 05/09/2004 |
| Swindon Bagger | 17/12/2022 | |
| Andy West | 17/10/2021 | |
| Matt | 14/10/2020 | |
| Steve Q | 16/08/2020 | |
| softsquare | 30/09/2018 | |
| Moorponder | 21/06/2018 | |
| mae | 08/10/2017 | |
| Colin Crawford | 14/07/2017 | |
| MM | 02/09/2016 | |
| chalky1953 | 09/07/2016 | |
| Dusty | 27/04/2016 | |
| isabelle | 14/01/2016 | |
| Lesley Atchison | 19/02/2009 | |
| andrew.allum | 01/01/2000 | |
| anne3366 | 22/04/1990 |