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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
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 14 users)ByDate 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 Pearson20/01/2023
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.Adrian13/07/2022
Over the footbridgejimbloomer18/01/2019
After Penhale hill. Up FP alongside busy A30, then across ditch and up to mast. HP just to NE.PeterD24/04/2018
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.RichardM19/03/2017
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.Dugswell211/03/2017
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.jonglew22/02/2017
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.RHW27/11/2016
Visited whilst in the area geocaching.CornishGazza23/06/2013
Matt16/04/2022
Andy West25/03/2022
mae09/10/2017
iaindbrown11/03/2017