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Name: | Blackchester Hill |
Hill number: | 16034 |
Height: | 214m / 702ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2302 The Cheviot |
RHB Section: | 33: The Scottish Border to the River Tyne |
County/UA: | Northumberland |
Catchment: | Aln, Catchment Boundaries, Coquet |
Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
Grid ref: | NU003102 (est) |
Drop: | 48m |
Col: | 166m NT994097 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 81 (1:25k) OL16E |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 14 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
From the south visited all areas. | robertphillips | 18/02/2023 |
The phonebox has now gone the way of all flesh, however, its space makes a suitable parking spot. Through the gate at the start of the byway and an easy ascent up to the final gate through the summit fence. Turn left and through a second gate to follow the fenceline to the summit. This is definitely NOT the trig but could be a spoil heap at the start of the enclosure, the edge of the quarry to the south or a bank alongside the trig. Visited all three to avoid having to make a return trip. | moorsman | 30/09/2021 |
Room to park at Alnham. Approached via bridleway and field edge > Blackchester Hill. Trig point looks higher than quarry rim. Continued along bridleway and then track to Scrainwood. Up the track NNW > Hazeltonrig. Footpath and road back to Alnham. | JohnR | 15/05/2021 |
Grand tour of the Northumberland hills. Parked by the phone box in Alnham. Blackchester Hill > Hazel Knowes > High Knowes > Hart Law for the trig along the ridge and down to Prendwick > minor road back to the car. | Andrew Simmons | 22/12/2020 |
As Crib Goch | Colin Crawford | 24/03/2019 |
From Alnham, via Restricted Byway - whatever that means. Then along wall to Trig which looks like the highest point | Crib Goch | 11/01/2019 |
Trig is highest area. Visited the standing stone and the cupped stone as well. Approached from the south, easy parking | Adrian | 28/12/2018 |
Public byway from S along edges of crop fields to metal gate at final field, with frisky cattle. Wall followed to small quarry and trig. Highest point is a reservoir 20m from trig, otherwise about 45m W on quarry rim possibly higher than trig, hard to tell with long grass. | Aye Jimmy | 05/08/2016 |
Parked opposite Castle Farm then up footpath on track and passed some pens containing 30 tups before taking to field to bag the trig and top on the edge of a former quarry. | Dugswell2 | 01/09/2014 |
RHW | 14/04/2006 | |
dexly | 17/12/2020 | |
carole engel | 17/06/2017 | |
Dave Geere | 19/03/2017 | |
asbown | 13/09/2014 |