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Name:Hooksdown
Hill number:18442
Height:182m / 597ft
Parent (Ma):2913  Crowborough
RHB Section:42: South-East England & the Isle of Wight
County/UA:East Sussex
Catchment:Minor Rivers only (South)
Class:Tump (100-199m)
(Tu,1)
Grid ref:TQ 62786 20839
Summit feature:no feature: meadow behind Mill House
Drop:30m
Col:152m  TQ604210  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 199
(1:25k) OL25 123 124
Observations:ground at base of windmill 45m W at TQ 62743 20831 may be as high
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 19 users)ByDate of Ascent
Same route as PGCEPeterD29/11/2021
Parking around here is tight. There is room for 1 car at TQ 62717 20813 plus a second if you block the gate.DC11main12/09/2021
More picaresque than North Down: pleasant viewsPhilipChaston23/04/2021
ROW for a short way before hopping over fence.PGCE30/12/2020
As others. Windmill still surrounded by scaffoldingCampbell Singer14/10/2020
40-mile, 12-tump bike ride in the High Weald: Wadhurst station - Best Beech Hill - Dewhurst Down - Frant Hill - Saxonbury Hill - Cottage Hill - North Down - Hooksdown - Brightling Obelisk - Darwell Hill - Vinehall Forest - John's Cross Hill - Silver Hill - Robertsbridge station.Mark Jackson03/10/2020
RoW to S of windmill, then over stock fencing into pasture. HP seemed to be boundary between field and Blackdown Mill House (windmill). My final East Sussex tump.jonglew20/04/2018
Robertsbridge to Heathfield. ROW along drive between the cottage & windmill (stone marker beside gate).Smudge25/02/2017
Edge of meadow behind Blackdown Mill HouseRHW27/06/2015
Windmill on summit was 'renovated single handedly from 1947 by William Dallaway thus, apparently, gaining the gratitude of Windmill enthusiasts everywhere'Chris Pearson01/03/2015
could be by pasture edge or by the windmill.Adrian06/04/2014
On edge of pasture field.destaylor03/04/2014
Martin R18/11/2022
Matt30/05/2021
Adrian203/04/2021
andrew brown19/05/2020
Sainesy25/10/2016
GordonAdshead18/09/2016
stevent080908/11/2014