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Name:Waterswallows Hill
Hill number:19728
Height:379m / 1243ft
Parent (Ma):2812  Shining Tor
RHB Section:36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines
County/UA:Derbyshire
Catchment:Trent
Class:Tump (300-399m)
(Tu,3)
Grid ref:SK 08827 75084
Summit feature:rocks in deep grass
Drop:32m
Col:347m  SK073770  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 119
(1:25k) OL24W
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 28 users)ByDate of Ascent
No contour lines on my phone OS 1:25k map but there it is, in the parallelogram below Handybarn Farm, a delightful grassed over basalt slag heap hill complete with trees on top....vegibagger17/07/2023
Parked to W in wide gateway entrance. Quick up and down.PGCE27/06/2023
Third hill on bike ride from Smalldale. Steep walk up west side (once over electric? fence). Interesting rock for Peak District.steveb200627/02/2023
From lane to west, steeply up to top. No horses today.PeterD05/12/2022
The only basalt summit in The Peak? (albeit a man made one .- a pile of rocks from the quarry to west). Parked 5 mins away in layby to west, easily under electric fence (switched off). Abandoned camping paraphernalia including model of an extra terrestial.Nick Canute26/01/2022
Parked to the South at junction of Hardybarn Lane and Green Lane SK08897 74743. Walked East along F/P to first gate then headed North Westish towards hill. Easy access as many broken walls. Couple of horses in field and much horsey paraphernalia but no one about. Steep ascent up SE of hill to summit. Descent off NW of hill, also steep, to join Hardybarn Lane almost at the junction of Waterswallows Lane to avoid electric fence.David Evans22/09/2021
Ascended steepish grass covered spoil heap from road to NW. Levelish summit with scattered low trees and used by horses. Good views of gleaming quarry lake in sunshine.Denise 01/12/2020
From lane to W, steeply up grassy NNW slope. Levelish summit with coppiced Hazel(?) and grass. Basalt spoil. Horse pasture. Good views.RichardM01/12/2020
From road to West after swimming with Mart at Waterswallows quarry on an overcast and rainy day. Parked by field gate, hopped over bwf and up steep slopes to wooded summit and good view of the quarry. Dolerite geology reminds me very much of Iceland.John Eley03/10/2020
Took road to W and parked at minor crossroads to S of hill at SK 0888.7474. Lane E for 200m to metal gate, then fields heading N to hill.Aye Jimmy22/09/2020
From west. Very steep but no dramas. Hill of the day (surprisingly).Wycombe Wanderer30/08/2020
Re-completing Derbyshire again. Steep grassy slopes.davidpettit8430/08/2020
The 3rd and final tump of the day, having climbed Darlton Quarry and Doveholes Hill and having made quite lengthy circulars, I was content to make this one shorter. I parked on the adjacent road but as others have noted the electric fence had to be contended with so where the two tapes were closer. I climbed up and leapt over then snook up quickly via trees to the security of the higher slopes. Nice steep top with summit being insid a Burdock plant with a few stones also concealed within! I continued on slope to descend ridge back to reach end of electric tape at copse to climb over fence and then wall back onto road and then back to the start.Dazingdale18/07/2020
Nipped over to this one after lunch. Parked to SW abut 50m S of gate. Cattle in field quietly moved away as I crossed the fence into the target field. Nice little hill.GordonAdshead14/07/2020
The third time I have completed every English 300m hill An easy climb but more involved than I thought. Plenty of Parking to the west down Hardybarn Lane but, the whole of the west side is protected by live 3-strand electric fencing (see photo) enhanced by GOML, It's ours. it's private, notices. To circumvent these there is a gate to the SW but leaves you open to view so I parked in the first parking spot down the road. A weakness in the wall opposite allows access to the north of where the electric fence finishes and quick cover into the trees. A good path can be found leading up to the base of the summit climb then a short, steep uphill finish leads to the summit. IMPORTANT EXTRA... When I am master of the universe, my Legions of Terror will be deployed 24/7 monitoring the hill bagging website. Should any new 1000 feet hills be added my Legions of Terror will seek out the discoverer and condemn them to a life of constant torment by making them reduce the hill to a sub-1000ft hilmoorsman11/07/2020
Nice grassland, gates to SW, highpoint at N edge of grassy south facing clearingRHW08/07/2020
Plenty of parking along Hardybarn Lane. Also plenty of electric fencing. Top at SK 08829 75081. Third time I have completed Debyshire in 12 days. Could I request that The Tamperers become better coordinated in announcing new hills!Campbell Singer06/07/2020
I spotted this distinctive tree crowned hat shaped ex spoil tip from the A6 and went to investigate. A simple climb but then a month of research into its potential p30 status. Lack of contours except on OSM which had a top 345m ring contour.Chris C doing a phenomenal job first finding a 379m summit spot on Walk Lakes (?) then working out col height on Dove Holes to Buxton railway by finding and using railway engineering data. e.g track climbs at 1 in 70 from 4 chains S of Dove Holes station. The height of the station track bed there being calculated from a BM on the bridge by deduction knowing building specs at time of build to allow enough space for trains to fit underneath bridge! If you climb this ‘ hill’ on a hot day you could, if foolish enough, cool down by going cliff jumping / tombstoning in nearby flooded Waterswallows Quarry - popular with the local youth /youtubers -sadly oblivious it seems that they are jumping and summersaulting off a intrusive magma dolerite sill.Chris Pearson01/06/2020
Andy West12/02/2024
PM21/10/2023
Barry Smith25/02/2023
Matt01/02/2022
Martin R25/10/2021
BaggerGutt05/05/2021
IainT26/12/2020
Mark Sims14/09/2020
Bag For Life30/08/2020
andrew brown05/07/2020