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Name: | Blacknoll Hill |
Hill number: | 18342 |
Height: | 62.4m / 205ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2896 Lewesdon Hill |
RHB Section: | 41: South Central England |
County/UA: | Dorset |
Catchment: | Piddle & Frome |
Class: | Unclassified (Un) |
Grid ref: | SY 80603 86338 |
Summit feature: | ground 3m N of trig point |
Drop: | 28.2m |
Col: | 34.2m SY 8050 8583 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 194 (1:25k) OL15E |
Comments: | Tump deleted June 2020 |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 26 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
Quick easy bag from the road to the E. Shame it was demoted! Ominous Magnox Nuclear plant just to the N. | DanMaisieBex | 03/07/2020 |
Easy parking in Gatemoor Road and easy track to the Trig at the top. | fosal29 | 27/01/2020 |
Lulworth Cove to Wool. Revisit. SW approach path winding through gorse was quite prickly; descent eastwards much less painful. | Smudge | 24/01/2020 |
Nice little hill up track from road gate - with good views | GordonAdshead | 10/01/2020 |
With Jo, parked to NW on Gatemoor Road and followed track to summit on a lovely sunny afternoon. | amblerbob | 21/09/2019 |
An extraordinary surprise to discover that this small hill looks over the adjacent Winfrith Atomic Energy Site where in the 1950’s nine different experimental nuclear reactors were built (each with a name such as Zenith, Juno, Nero, Hestor, Dragon, Zebra and Dimple) and 2000 people carried out research, into the best type of reactor and materials. Even this hill was hollowed out for an underground reservoir (emergency cooling water). Now all reactors are closed and removal decommissioning well underway, but cutting up with robots the two most complex radioactive plants (Zebra and Dragon)remain. The manager boldly states nothing on earth has ever been so well planned ! !? Next year you can stand on this summit and watch ( probably on your own) a reactor core being removed at very close range. If all goes according to plan it should all be back to heathland by 2023 which will be quite an achievement. ( the radioactive waste will go by road to Harwell, Oxford.) | Chris Pearson | 10/03/2019 |
TD, C & H | This Dog | 15/07/2018 |
Easy nip up from the gate to this one, pillar good condition reasonable views. | griefmiester | 08/11/2016 |
Easy parking then found a path of sorts through the prickly stuff to trig and summit with Smudge. | Dugswell2 | 30/10/2016 |
With Dugswell. | Smudge | 30/10/2016 |
Easy strol to top. | PeterD | 26/06/2016 |
Handy parking, easy stroll to top. | jonglew | 12/11/2015 |
nice little hill. | Adrian | 06/04/2015 |
Easy parking. Stroll. | destaylor | 31/12/2014 |
Ample parking at track entrance at SY 80541 86452. Take track to SY 80634 86348 then good path to summit. (Due to strange, relatively short one-way section, parking spot should really only be approached from the north although you can get at it from the north.) | David Gradwell | 02/04/2012 |
Trigbagging while on holiday in Dorset. | DanTrig | 01/08/2006 |
RHW | 21/08/2004 | |
Andy West | 27/06/2023 | |
asbown | 08/10/2021 | |
bwm | 31/08/2021 | |
Matt | 15/08/2021 | |
Swindon Bagger | 06/09/2020 | |
DC11main | 30/06/2018 | |
andrew brown | 20/08/2017 | |
stevent0809 | 29/03/2014 | |
Edwin Gradwell | 02/04/2012 |