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Name: | Masson Hill |
Hill number: | 16620 |
Height: | 338m / 1109ft |
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 28604 58682 |
Summit feature: | no feature: ground a few m from OS bolt |
Drop: | 53m |
Col: | 285m SK276594 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 119 (1:25k) OL24E |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 67 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
On own. Cold but dry day. A round of Masson Hill and High Tor from Matlock Bath station car park. | Beeliner | 27/02/2024 |
The main challenge is working out where the top is when you have to avoid the numerous fields full of cattle when you have a dog, 3 detours and then the dog who resides at Embers Farm, luckily the farmer prevented serious injury! | matty1971b | 30/10/2023 |
Parked on the road, Salters Lane, to the north. It’s narrow with passing places, but on a steep part of the road these have been extended with parking on the verge. Space for several cats. We went along the track that joins the road about 150m E of the telecoms mast. At the end of the track continue over the stile. Rocks at that point to sit on for a picnic. Continue into the woods, there are stiles in the wall to your right. The second one takes to you to the mound with a slab on it. The photo on the link for on this pag e shows a cow there. There was a large flock, wit a bull in attendance when we were there. 
Had we known in advance we could have done this hill at the end of our day at the Heights of Abraham. The tour of the highest cave brings you out on the hillside where there are marked rights of way. You can then easily get to Masson Hill and then come back to get the cable car down. | Malcvolm | 17/05/2023 |
From minor road to the north at 28102 59457, down the track initially. This becomes a path and the summit is in a pasture to the right. | clivevilla | 22/02/2023 |
From Bonsall. Certainly visited before but details hazy. | steveb2006 | 28/11/2022 |
Masson Hill [S1718] from GR: SK 27897 58244 | ronaldo333 | 18/10/2022 |
Masson Hill [S1718] from GR: SK 27897 58244 | Hippster | 18/10/2022 |
from Matlock Bath Station first over High Tor | climbingkershaw | 24/04/2022 |
A round of Masson Hill and High Tor from P at SK 2972 5952. | summitsup | 15/04/2022 |
From Bonsall initially along Limestone Way, then FP, then up pasture to visit both mounds. | PeterD | 05/12/2021 |
From minor road to the north. Alternate summits visited as well. | Alan Caine | 08/08/2021 |
Climbed from Matlock, mostly on the Limestone Way. Cloud inversion and great views from summit(s) | Joel451 | 09/01/2021 |
Round of 7 hills, cycled from Nottingham with Mags. big day! 
Scarthin Rocks 
Bilberry Knoll 
High Tor 
Masson Hill - Last one before lunch, very big hill to cycle up, coming at it from NW side on ROW 
Crich Beacon 
Thorpill 
The Tors | Nicky C | 21/06/2020 |
The main challenge is working out where the top is! That and avoiding the dog who resides at Embers Farm. Great place to end the day | Altheus | 16/06/2020 |
from Bonsall to find trig block | cjo | 26/05/2019 |
Loop that took in High Tor and Masson Hill | dazedemon | 24/03/2019 |
Sunny morning walk from Bonsall. | Dugswell2 | 22/02/2019 |
Final top of the day. Full day running from Cromford to Matlock (35k) with hill tops inc Harboro Rocks, Longcliffe Hill, Slipper Low, Minninglow Hill, Blake Low, Blakelow Hill, Masson Hill. With L1bby. | Fionalevey | 14/08/2018 |
With Sal and Brian on Monday run from Boat Inn, Cromford, previously done on Fell Race. 
 
Great, clear view. | davechaffey | 06/08/2018 |
Wide roadside parking at the footpath junction to the NW (alt 285m(. Easy, waymarked walk as far as the copse. Squeezer stile through the wall into the pasture field then decide which is the true summit. To be sure, go to all three!!! 2.1km return, 30mins 62m ascent, | moorsman | 28/11/2017 |
Parked roadside SK28181 59464. Visited all 3 possible summits. | David Evans | 15/10/2017 |
Wandered around a couple more bumps around the top of Masson Hill today. Not sure which is the real summit, so I thought I ought to make sure. By the way, if you're visiting for the first time, please note that there's a massive error on the OS map, with Masson Hill Quarry mapped several hundred yards to the NW of its real position. | Gill | 14/03/2017 |
Solo | simon and co | 01/02/2017 |
Cromford to Matlock. | Smudge | 03/12/2016 |
From minor road to north up fp. Entrance to wood is quite well hidden. Stick to fence/wall to the right and enter wood at nw corner. | Campbell Singer | 28/09/2016 |
From Darley Bridge via Oker Hill and onto Matlock Bath. Frisky cows meant a couple of changes of route | trimarc2 | 07/09/2016 |
A high level circuit of Matlock Bath | hillexplorer | 29/08/2016 |
An easy walk from the minor road to the north. Crossed Limestone Way on way to the top. | Neil Haslewood | 21/08/2016 |
Visited the tumulus marked on the map where there is a concrete slab with pin, but also popped across the wall to the north to visit the other possible summit. | Wheelsy | 28/02/2016 |
Superb Boxing day walk with R | Denise | 26/12/2015 |
West summit has concrete pad with rivet set in grass. 2 other 'summits' of similar height. | RichardM | 26/12/2015 |
A five-tump circuit from Tansley: Ashover Hay - Cocking Tor - Matlock Moor - Oker Hill - Masson Hill - Matlock Bath - High Tor. Short detour from the public footpath, visiting all three possible summits. | davidpettit84 | 26/09/2015 |
My final Derbyshire Tump with Lesley on circular walk Matlock -High Tor-Bilberry Knoll- Cromford -National Stone Centre for excellent examples of different types of dry stone walls from all over UK, made of rocks from those areas. From Bonsall -lost path - over fence in summer rain to summit mound -OS bolt in block. No sign of The heights of Abraham and cable car further down the hill. | Chris Pearson | 17/08/2015 |
Nipped out the back gate from family outing to Heights of Abraham whilst they were watching Punch and Judy! Good forest path then over couple of b/w fences and close encounter with herd of inquisitive young cows. Exposed trig surface block at summit. | jonglew | 12/08/2015 |
Icy lane from NNW then snowy fields. Two summits in field but next to wall by wood another possibility (small circular pond nearby). | Aye Jimmy | 07/02/2015 |
Last hill of 6 today starting from Cromford:Bolehill,Middleton moor,Longcliffe hill,Slipper Low,Blakelow hill,using track across Bonsall moor to access the Limestone way. Took fp from Uppertown that took me to grassy summit area.Explored both mounds and then scrambled down onto fp going past Heights of Abraham complex. Eventually joined fp traversing woodland dropping down to Matlock Bath. | Dazingdale | 14/12/2014 |
Despite going on many day trips to the Heights of Abraham as a kid, we never went beyond the tourist bit to the top. Grabbed a look at the summit from Salters Lane as a teen and found it a tremendous view. It's also quite prominent in views from further north. | Jake994 | 13/05/2006 |
One of many occasions whilst working at the Heights of Abraham; on this trip I was mapping some outcrops of the Great Rake back towards Bonsall, as you do. | DanHolme | 01/06/2003 |
RHW | 21/12/2002 | |
mae | 12/01/2024 | |
DC11main | 25/11/2023 | |
AndyS | 12/12/2022 | |
kev65 | 27/05/2022 | |
Wycombe Wanderer | 07/02/2022 | |
Richard Gunn | 01/09/2020 | |
BaggerGutt | 20/06/2020 | |
simonshrewsbury | 20/05/2018 | |
Alex C | 23/04/2018 | |
mcbiydw2 | 10/04/2018 | |
Martin R | 07/01/2018 |