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Name:Preston Capes Hill
Hill number:19677
Height:189.3m / 621ft
Parent (Ma):2869  Cleeve Hill
RHB Section:39: Central and Eastern England
County/UA:West Northamptonshire
Catchment:Thames
Class:Tump (100-199m)
(Tu,1)
Grid ref:SP 56734 54536
Summit feature:ground on road verge
Drop:37m
Col:152.3m  SP 5601 5496  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 152
(1:25k) 206 207W
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 34 users)ByDate of Ascent
Total drive-up.Mark Jackson19/03/2023
Charwelton to Weedon.Smudge03/12/2022
Bagged on way to football at Brackley. Not clear where exact top is but favour verge by water tower compoundBramley20/08/2022
Twixt the A5 and M40 on the Cumbria to Sussex drive. All for 30cms of extra height found by Lidar over the previously visited summit location at Woodford Hill. The local village WI hold interesting talks e.g. My life as a Police Officer, Life on a Submarine. Next month ...My life as a Pointless Bagger (proposed)Chris Pearson19/11/2021
Drive up and a wander around the green triangle. All very flatColin Crawford23/10/2021
The road to Hinton was closed with a highway maintenance lorry parked on the triangle complete with a couple of workmen eating their sandwiches (have you noticed how rural highway workers always seem to be eating sandwiches?). I slowly walked the area, including the triangle and could see the workmen looking askance at me. But remembering Mark Twain's quote “It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt” I left them with the mystery.DC11main27/07/2021
Very chilly bike ride. 34.9 miles 1715 ft elevationnell158326/01/2021
Quick bag of the triangle.PGCE19/11/2020
Not far to walk to this one! Took GR and photos.Aye Jimmy04/11/2020
GR is for the verge not the triangle but they are about the same and I do not care.clivevilla03/11/2020
Quick bag from gatewayrhalstead04/10/2020
Drive over. Stopped to get out and stand in the triangle as others.pwheeler30/07/2020
Roadsidejonglew16/07/2020
Parked by field gateway and visited various verges and triangle to see which were higher. Recompletion of the county.PeterD02/07/2020
Stepped out of the car in heavy drizzle. High point could be the junction triangle with signpost.Campbell Singer19/06/2020
I've driven past this hill many times but this was a trip specifically to bag it. Drove from home with Sonja on a cloudy-bright evening and parked in an adjacent field gateway. As others have said, the high point is the raised reservoir in the enclosure but the grass triangle that marks the road junction looks like the natural summit.Skip16/06/2020
After pleasant walk at Fox Hill, an easy recompletion of Northamptonshire.KC05/06/2020
Said hello to workmen in water compoundGordonAdshead04/06/2020
Have cycled over this hill on numerous occasions and walked/run on the Knightly Way, which crosses the northern side of it. This, however, was a visit by car. Highest point, outside the artificial ground in the fenced enclosed water feature, seems to be the land with the road sign.JohnW03/06/2020
Stopped off on verge and more or less at the top-visited grassy triangle and on other side of the road before proceeding with Lesley to explore Woodford Halse nature reserve. Lovely Wildlife trust site!Dazingdale24/05/2020
Roadside summit, exact natural HP unclear but I chose S verge at NE corner of water tower compound - which is securely fenced, but on lower ground, although the covered resr overtops natural HP by c.1m.RHW21/05/2020
Stopped to photograph the water tower as inaccessible rivet. Water tower close to what is now a Tump summit.Dugswell206/08/2017
Halfdecent27/10/2023
Martin R24/02/2022
Wycombe Wanderer10/07/2021
Bag For Life10/07/2021
Denise 28/02/2021
RichardM28/02/2021
Mark Sims07/10/2020
geoffreycurnock07/06/2020
davefh07/06/2020
andrew brown27/05/2020
johnkenyon24/05/2020
AndyS23/03/2014