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Name: | Fraddon Down |
Hill number: | 17609 |
Height: | 222m / 728ft |
Parent (Ma): | 19290 Hensbarrow Downs |
RHB Section: | 40: Cornwall & Devon |
County/UA: | Cornwall |
Catchment: | Fal, Catchment Boundaries |
Watershed: | Land's End to John o' Groats, Land's End to Dover, The Lizard to Dunnet Head |
Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
Grid ref: | SW 92108 58123 |
Summit feature: | ground on NW side of track |
Drop: | 42m |
Col: | 180m SW917574 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 200 (1:25k) 106 |
Observations: | ground 50m SSW on N side of comms compound at SW 92089 58076 could be as high |
Survey: | Abney level |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 14 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
Many people, including myself as a child in the 1970s, must have stared dumbly at this (now fully vegetated /restored) spoil tip whist stuck in mile long summer holiday traffic jams at the notorious bottleneck junction of the wonderfully named Indian Queens, being the turn off for Newquay and summer beach holidays. The new A30 bypass, finally opened in 2005, came close to removing the hill completely. For a 1970s era retro ascent in keeping with those happy days I am still using my 1972 OS 1:50,000 map which shows non of these changes or the hill contours so I relied on intuition and remembering previous logs as to the best (i.e. least prickly) way up. I also had the problem of low winter sun in my eyes with my paper map finding superb additional use as a sunshield. Try that with your GPS. Pace counted along summit track to be be able to count back to find best way through brambles again on descent - non of this GPS backtrack nonsense removing the adventure. | Chris Pearson | 20/01/2023 |
Parked at bend in road then walked past caravan park and onto fp. Over fence, along track then up to mast where there’s less vegetation to push through. | Adrian | 13/07/2022 |
Over the footbridge | jimbloomer | 18/01/2019 |
After Penhale hill. Up FP alongside busy A30, then across ditch and up to mast. HP just to NE. | PeterD | 24/04/2018 |
parked at Indian Queens village, then crossed over A30 on footbridge and easily made way to top. Aerial and muddy, slightly overgrown track on top. Ground all fairly level; we thought about 80m NE of aerial was HP. Hazy views. | Denise | 19/03/2017 |
From foot path on W side via fence, ditch, vegetated bank, fence with brambles to flattish vegetated summit plateau. Impressive quarry on E side. Easier return SSW on track then good path through gorse to animal water trough, easily over wire fence then wooden fence into turning place at road end. | RichardM | 19/03/2017 |
Used the footpath from the NNE with Iain Brown, then over fence and ditch and up lightly wooded slope before another fence and a bramble scramble. Slightly easier route found on the way down. | Dugswell2 | 11/03/2017 |
From end of disused road at SW92455864. Followed RoW/permissive path SW for 400m, then over fence and ditch and up lightly wooded slope. Another fence at the top then short gorse/bramble bash to an old vehicle track running NE-SW with comms mast visible through mist. HP could be anywhere along there; took a view it was a little NE of RHW's GR, but who knows. | jonglew | 22/02/2017 |
17609 Fraddon. From NNE, path, cross ditch where least brambly, track, up bank directly to comms tower, grassy hp just n of compound or a little farther N, all rather level. | RHW | 27/11/2016 |
Visited whilst in the area geocaching. | CornishGazza | 23/06/2013 |
Matt | 16/04/2022 | |
Andy West | 25/03/2022 | |
mae | 09/10/2017 | |
iaindbrown | 11/03/2017 |