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| Name: | West Hill |
| Hill number: | 16033 |
| Height: | 215m / 705ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2302 The Cheviot |
| RHB Section: | 33: The Scottish Border to the River Tyne |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | The Cheviots |
| County/UA: | Northumberland |
| Catchment: | Tweed |
| Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
| Grid ref: | NT 90965 29491 |
| Summit feature: | cairn |
| Drop: | 55m |
| Col: | 160m NT914292  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 74 75 (1:25k) OL16E |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 37 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| No logs since 2022, then three of us within four days go for it. The clue is a Triggers weekend at Wooler. Didn't want to experiment with the electric fence so used the stile on the permissive path. Nice hil, deserving the March 2024 popularity | Martin R | 26/03/2024 |
| Parked in comm centre car park at Kirknewton, opp the church (NT 9140 3024). Permissive path leads up to the top. On to Tom Tallon's Crag (a Cheviot 99 and sub-tump), White Law, Yeavering Bell and return for a 11.7k round in heavy rain all the way. | jonglew | 25/03/2024 |
| A quick walk up from Kirknewton. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 23/03/2024 |
| 1 of 3 from old yeavering. | robertphillips | 12/11/2022 |
| Yeavering Bell and West Hill from Kirknewton (P @ NT 9139 3022). | summitsup | 11/10/2022 |
| With Jo, linear walk from Hethpool to Kirknewton visiting The Bell and West Hill en route. Weather; sunny, warm, good visibility. | amblerbob | 21/06/2022 |
| P Kirknewton, short & easy diversion on the way up to Newton Tors, with Alexander. | agentmancuso | 10/04/2022 |
| Circular walk from Kirknewton. A fine hill fort. With friends and dogs. | jenx | 04/04/2022 |
| From Kirknewton church, followed track heading WSW then back to SE before heading up hill on access land. Lots of sheep. Good views on clear day | PeterD | 28/06/2021 |
| Up from Kirknewton | Andrew Simmons | 08/06/2021 |
| Part of the Grand Tour of Northumberland. From Hethpool | NorthernWayfarer | 02/05/2021 |
| Hethpool car park (NT89392804). Continue round the base of the hill until past the abundant gorse/hawthorn/bracken for an easy ascent > The Bell. Retraced steps to footbridge at NT90212849 > West Hill. Paths and cropped grassland all the way. | JohnR | 28/12/2020 |
| Ample car parking in Kirknewton. Follow roads round to the gate at the start of the footpath to the SE. From here go through the gate on your left and follow the path through another gate and over a stile to the summit. | moorsman | 03/08/2019 |
| From Kirknewton | Colin Crawford | 18/09/2018 |
| Medium cairn on domed sheep pasture with wild views against a pink sky. Last of circular walk. | Denise | 18/12/2017 |
| From The Bell via Hethpool Linn gorge. Summit topped by medium cairn. Landscape bathed in red glow of sunset. | RichardM | 18/12/2017 |
| From Easter Tor grassy slopes (herd of goats) lead down to 'ford' marked on map, then narrow tree line to squalid gate. Pleasantly up hill from here, cairn on top. | Aye Jimmy | 12/07/2016 |
| From Kirknewton via Hill Forts Trail - then descended west and on to The Bell. | Crib Goch | 23/02/2016 |
| From NE, Kirknewton, track to 2nd tree belt then access land. Hillfort ramparts quite modest considering the markings on 1:50k map. | RHW | 10/05/2015 |
| Milfield to Kirk Yetholm. Permissive path from Kirknewton. | Smudge | 22/03/2014 |
| Verge parking at junction with track NT 92380 30381. Tough 8.5 mile walk in apalling weather including Yeavering Bell, Newtons Tors, The Bell & West Hill. | David Gradwell | 30/03/2010 |
| flakeyw | 28/05/2023 | |
| Ruthiepentagon | 25/10/2022 | |
| mae | 16/08/2022 | |
| ZanderH | 10/04/2022 | |
| Alan Moore | 11/08/2021 | |
| Lucky | 20/09/2020 | |
| maknipe | 20/09/2020 | |
| carole engel | 18/08/2019 | |
| Jhimmy | 25/07/2019 | |
| Adrian | 02/11/2018 | |
| dexly | 29/08/2018 | |
| JBKarko | 30/11/2017 | |
| Dave Geere | 06/02/2017 | |
| melly1 | 30/09/2013 | |
| jnixon | 30/09/2013 | |
| Edwin Gradwell | 30/03/2010 |