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| Name: | War Down |
| Hill number: | 7809 |
| Height: | 244.4m / 802ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2909 Butser Hill |
| RHB Section: | 42: South-East England & the Isle of Wight |
| County/UA: | Hampshire |
| Catchment: | Arun, Catchment Boundaries |
| Watershed: | The Solent |
| Class: | Tump (200-299m), Subhump (Tu,2,sHu) |
| Grid ref: | SU 72634 19881 |
| Summit feature: | tumulus |
| Drop: | 99.7m |
| Col: | 144.7m SU 7221 1975  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 197 (1:25k) OL8 120 |
| Survey: | obvious summit |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 71 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Parked in carpark at Buriton. Followed marked trails. | Ramblingpaul | 16/07/2023 |
| Walk w/Devon. War Down, Butser Hill, Holt Down loop from Buriton. | ZacField | 05/07/2023 |
| 4 Tump circuit from Burton church: War Down, Holt Down, Head Down, Oakham Hill. | PGCE | 03/11/2020 |
| Detour from SDW | lerritt | 20/08/2020 |
| Parked in the visitor centre car park. Nice new barriers since my last visit and some building work on the centre underway. War Down and Holt Down completed. Sunshine and clouds with a couple of light showers. | Buck | 11/08/2019 |
| With FJE and DTL from main car park along good paths and via Head Down | r1 | 22/06/2019 |
| with FJE and PJB - a round trip over Head Down and War Down after Park Run | trimarc2 | 22/06/2019 |
| War Down and Holt Down along the marked routes from the visitor centre car park. Fabulous woodlands. | summitter | 12/06/2019 |
| Started at Halls Hill car park. First on a round of War Down, Holt Down, Newbarn, Head Down, Culters Dean, Oakham Hill and West Harting Down, Culters Dean and along the SDW back to Halls Hill Car pk. Satisfyingly, only 1 mile retrace on an 11 mile route. Typical April weather Th after a hot Easter; only 4 people seen in the QE park today. Route up: by drives used by forest vehicles except a little short cut. | pwheeler | 25/04/2019 |
| Lovely clear and crisp day, no wind and fantasic thin snowy conditions on the groud, everything looking lovey. Part of a 6 tump, 1 marylin loop. | atreides7887 | 03/02/2019 |
| Parked at Queen Elizabeth Country Park to bag Butser Hill, War Down, Holt Down | mazz | 13/01/2019 |
| A small grassy clearing ( sign Brow Barrow) within forest, mainly beech with indistinct high point- possibly a raised patch of earth with concrete base of former aerial? Low cloud gave it a mysterious feel. Accessed on a myriad of tracks from Hall's Hill free carpark to the east. | Denise | 20/01/2018 |
| Up through beech woods from car park to E. A dreeky damp morning with dripping trees. Summit is an open grassy area with high point mound in NE corner. Misty, no views. | RichardM | 20/01/2018 |
| Part of a short Christmas morning run from Petersfield. Back before anyone else was up... | Shutterlag | 25/12/2017 |
| A 20 mile circular walk linking 12 Tumps (all repeats) with Lesley and Betty the dog . 3000ft of ascent. | Chris Pearson | 17/09/2017 |
| From Finchdean and Windmill hill | ejjohnstone | 29/05/2017 |
| 16 miles in greyness and sleet: Petersfield - Butser Hill - Holt Down - War Down - Head Down - Oakham Hill - West Harting Down - Torberry Hill - Petersfield. Pity there's no view. Mountain bike tracks everywhere. | Mark Jackson | 11/02/2017 |
| From Halls Hill car park, a round of War Down, Holt Down, Head Down, Oakham Hill and West Harting Down. | rhalstead | 28/01/2017 |
| Bagged on a family walk around Queen Elizabeth Country Park. | Sprog | 03/08/2016 |
| Bike from Petersfield Station and then up hill using excellent bike trails, a couple of which were steep | trimarc2 | 30/06/2016 |
| second attempt. From upper car park. Followed tracks and cycle tracks to HP. Dull. | arranc | 20/02/2016 |
| After Head Down, then directish route E back to car park. Plenty paths but some cross country | RHW | 30/08/2015 |
| Parked in QECP and did round of War Down, Head Down and Holt Down. | PeterD | 12/08/2015 |
| A very busy top on this sunny May bank holiday monday, being in the Queen Elizabeth country park with its marked paths and bike trails trails. Many families, dog walkers and mountain bikers. Bench on top for lunch. A long Tump collecting walk along the Downs with Lesley and Betty the faithful hound as ever. | Chris Pearson | 03/05/2015 |
| Did as part of a short walk with Nicky, Joe & Tom | fnem | 15/02/2015 |
| From Buriton car park. | squeegs | 15/01/2015 |
| Bagged from the car park at Halls Hill, Kiln Lane, Buriton. | Sprog | 31/12/2014 |
| Car park SE of Buriton. RoW and woddland tracks to summit. | jonglew | 05/11/2014 |
| West Marden to Petersfield. | Smudge | 18/07/2014 |
| Parked at Queen Elizabeth Country Park to walk five hills in about 18mls | philhythe | 12/07/2014 |
| in the drizzle and fog | TeasyChris | 05/04/2014 |
| P at loop. Track to top. | chrisbien | 23/04/2013 |
| Easy parking at car park to E. Track all the way - some short cuts available. | destaylor | 29/11/2012 |
| On our way down the A3 to Chichester, so stopped off. Parked at the Queen Elizabeth Country Park visitor centre and came up here as part of a multi-cache. Lovely day and lovely forest area. | CandS37 | 29/03/2012 |
| A nice walk through the wood. | JohnStoneham | 19/02/2012 |
| Ha, ha a first log at last. I parked at the car park to the east and followed up the main track which rises then dip a bit before a sharp right takes you up to the top. Obvious route from the map. Managed to mess up on the way down and ended up on a ca | simon and co | 30/01/2012 |
| After sleeping in the BBQ barn overnight, I crossed this summit on my way back to the SDP! | DanHolme | 07/02/2005 |
| Didn't follow a path, just ascended through a forest, it was hard to stand up. But the kids loved it. | gazgib | 21/08/2002 |
| date unknown | Adrian | 01/01/2000 |
| Approx date | Adrian2 | 01/07/1996 |
| SteveG | 09/11/2022 | |
| The Maise | 09/11/2022 | |
| Kendall | 02/10/2022 | |
| DC11main | 18/09/2022 | |
| cbradshaw | 19/06/2021 | |
| daveyf2001 | 21/01/2021 | |
| Matt | 24/10/2020 | |
| PhilipChaston | 23/08/2020 | |
| mae | 21/01/2020 | |
| Fionalevey | 22/06/2019 |