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Name: | Woodbury Common |
Hill number: | 5413 |
Height: | 183.5m / 602ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2892 Staple Hill |
RHB Section: | 40: Cornwall & Devon |
County/UA: | Devon |
Catchment: | Exe, Catchment Boundaries, Otter |
Class: | Tump (100-199m), Subhump, Clem (Tu,1,sHu,Cm) |
Grid ref: | SY 03231 87484 |
Summit feature: | no feature: ground on earthworks |
Drop: | 99.9m |
Col: | 83.6m SY 0640 9913 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 192 (1:25k) 115 |
Observations: | tumulus 400m N at SY 03256 87866 is several metres lower |
Survey: | Abney level |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 77 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Choice of car parks to south. Impressive hill fort, shame about road through it. Went both sides of road. West was higher. | PeterD | 04/03/2023 |
Repeat visit on the way to Crook Plantation from Woodbury Park Hotel after first of the spring 2023 beaver courses. | Herbert Anchovy | 01/02/2023 |
What a shame they built the road through this excellent hillfort. | clivevilla | 17/10/2021 |
With Ellie. (Claire didn't go to the high point). | MickyRoss | 11/10/2020 |
Parked at Four Firs Carpark and walked north to Woodbury Castle. Crossed to west side of road to reach summit. | matthewdomhof | 13/07/2020 |
Short walk from the car park. HP west side of road on steep sided earthworks. | fosal29 | 21/01/2020 |
Nice old wooded fort area, shame about the road | nordicstar | 16/05/2018 |
Nice hill fort and views from Woodbury Common over estuary. | twg27 | 06/05/2018 |
Been to Woodbury Common many times but this was the official visit to bag the very top which I’d not visited before. In amongst the trees and ditches of Woodbury Castle. | Newton Maximus | 12/12/2017 |
With Cow & Kathy. Quiet nice. | Play2End | 11/09/2017 |
Superb hill fort ruined only by the busy road which cuts through it. Great views ove the Exe from the car park. | RichardM | 23/01/2017 |
superb views over the Exe from the Carpark as the sun set.HP is on embankment of ancient fortifications in beech and holly woods, with road nearby. | Denise | 23/01/2017 |
Straight forward bit of hill bagging from the car park to the S. | DanMaisieBex | 17/12/2016 |
As easiest route from car park is on the road, may as well park on informal lay by at the crest of the road right next to the summit. | ijpowell | 29/07/2016 |
Short walk from car park. | rhalstead | 17/01/2016 |
On circular walk from Black Hill | Poolton123 | 26/10/2015 |
1/6 short walk from car park to highest point on mudbank | Fergalh | 08/07/2015 |
With CP, JO and LP | garth87 | 22/03/2015 |
Short walk from carpark to the highest point of the earth bank which could have been either side of the road. | Herbert Anchovy | 04/03/2015 |
Multivallate Iron Age hill fort bisected by B3180. Very steep and well-defined ramparts. HP seems to be on W side of road atop the inner rampart (on a man-made structure - heresy!). ***24 Feb 2018 re-ascent: Re-visit with Carole Engel. | jonglew | 17/11/2014 |
As chrisbien. | Chris Peart | 01/07/2014 |
From CP to S along a muddy path then up through trees to outer then inner wall and back along road. | chrisbien | 23/05/2012 |
Park in car park on B3180. Quick walk along the road and over short gorse to the column 3756 (176m). Top 800m away (183m). Sun coming through early haze. 13.00. | arranc | 30/03/2012 |
From car park walked around inner wall then across road to bag top. | Dugswell2 | 18/03/2012 |
A weird summit. Its looks more like a wooded ski jump. A bit of a scramble up from the road as other access points have barbed wire fence protection. | Father Ted | 15/02/2012 |
Summit seems to be just to the west of the main road in the trees on what looks like an old hill fort. | DARRENG | 20/05/2011 |
Visited by bike from Exeter | fasgadh | 19/04/2011 |
Summit could be anywhere as there are so many built wall banks. | destaylor | 09/12/2010 |
Visited while Geocaching on Woodbury Common | escottjon | 17/11/2010 |
en passant | summitsup | 14/07/2010 |
Highest point is probably on top of the inner fortification of Woodbury Castle, to the west side of the B3180. | Isambard | 09/07/2009 |
Visited this area many times. 
Including Birdwatching, geocaching and hashing. The latter has nothing to do with illegal substances but is a form of none competitive running. 
Date is for a visit to the near by Trig point. | Anthony Vosper | 12/01/2009 |
trig visit | Rhayader_wander | 28/05/2007 |
RHW | 22/09/2002 | |
Halfdecent | 23/10/2023 | |
Andy West | 24/06/2023 | |
jamiehighton | 12/04/2023 | |
Matt | 10/01/2023 | |
ARC | 03/07/2019 | |
Adrian | 13/01/2019 | |
softsquare | 29/09/2018 | |
jenx | 16/05/2018 | |
carole engel | 24/02/2018 | |
Kiltie | 09/10/2017 | |
Tony S | 07/04/2017 | |
Lorna S | 07/04/2017 | |
PGCE | 25/03/2017 | |
jnixon | 06/10/2016 | |
iaindbrown | 22/03/2015 | |
Campbell Singer | 13/01/2015 |