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| Name: | Wincobank Hill |
| Hill number: | 16792 |
| Height: | 161m / 528ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2810 Black Hill |
| RHB Section: | 36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines |
| County/UA: | Sheffield |
| Catchment: | Don (Thorne) |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
| Grid ref: | SK377910 (est) |
| Drop: | 38m |
| Col: | 123m SK375912  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 110 111 (1:25k) 278S |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 70 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From Jenkin Road to the north. Entrance to the summit area and fort is on the brow of Jenkin Road with a track leading to the hp which is difficult to pinpoint. | clivevilla | 08/11/2023 |
| Quick up and down on way back from Huddersfield. Cool little hill with lots of history. So many baby oak trees! | Nicky C | 08/10/2023 |
| 12th of 13 Tumps on a circular drive from Kilnhurst. | Mark Jackson | 01/08/2022 |
| Easy stroll from Jenkin Road. Visited ramparts and various likely highpoints. | PGCE | 14/04/2021 |
| I thought that a nice quiet time to drive past Meadowhall would be on Easter Sunday during COVID Lockdown ( travel is currently okay but shops still closed). I was right. A pleasant peaceful stroll. With Alfie. | Dangerous Dave | 04/04/2021 |
| Sunshine. Oaks and other trees springing up everywhere. Hill of the day. | Wycombe Wanderer | 24/05/2020 |
| Wincobank Hill from GR: SK 38033 91262 | ronaldo333 | 15/02/2020 |
| Wincobank Hill from GR: SK 38033 91262 | Hippster | 15/02/2020 |
| Off road parking to the ENE in Jenkin Road SK381912. | David Evans | 14/10/2019 |
| After a hospital appointment at N General. | Nick Canute | 16/01/2019 |
| Even found a souvenir a lump of old trig pillar amongst the heather though it was heavy and very hard work to carry back to my van | vegibagger | 05/01/2019 |
| First of a cycle around the Sheffield - Rotherham Tumps and trigs on a disappointingly cold, damp and grey day. Warmed by the ascent of Jenkin Road take cobbled track SW to summit. Heath / woodland with iron age hill fort at summit. High point un-marked heathery rise 10m NNE of as AJ says a strangely bushy Oak. Bank 80m NNE very similar height. | RichardM | 22/11/2018 |
| Visited whilst family were shopping in Meadowhall. Followed the path alongside the River Don then up to Parkwood Springs then walked via roads to path to SE. | Wheelsy | 31/10/2018 |
| 4 of 5 on 28.7 mile bike ride including canklow bank, backmoor, parkwood springs, wincobank and keppels column | The-Z-Man | 04/09/2018 |
| From new housing estate track takes you steeply up hill. HP just of path. | PeterD | 09/05/2018 |
| Walked partway from Parkwood Springs then bus to Firth Park and walked up from there. Good viewpoint. Then walked down to Meadowhall for the tram to south of city for Backmoor. | IanHHill | 24/11/2017 |
| Steep steps from Fort Hill Road and then a stroll along good track to indeterminate top. | Campbell Singer | 13/11/2017 |
| Parked on the summit of Jenkin Road to the north east. A good track leads from the cul-de-sac next to the monument all the way to the top. The summit appears to be about 20m off the path in a patch of rough heather. | moorsman | 19/09/2017 |
| dropped wife off tp wander around Meadowhall so I took myself for a wander around these two hills. | joseph mitchell | 12/07/2017 |
| With Val. Looking at Hill Fort etc. Verification visit on 17/03/2023 on way to Depot bouldering wall. | steveb2006 | 26/02/2017 |
| sunrise over sheffield | cjo | 07/01/2017 |
| From Sandstone Avenue, pleasant top. | RobertP | 04/12/2016 |
| Quick visit after work, parking on Sandstone Avenue then up paths through wood. Surprisingly nice little hill :) | the_adam | 29/09/2016 |
| Another exploration from a tram terminus (Meadowhall); this one a satisfactory top. | summitsup | 01/07/2016 |
| After several hours in Meadowhell,parked in Sandstone Avenue.Possibly went wrong,as I went downhill before ascending from south-west side.Limited views because of trees. | catman | 12/06/2016 |
| 2nd of 6 hills with Lexi Rue my partner's Labradoodle on a 20+ mile walk from Sheffield to Conisbrough station. After Parkwood Springs we used the A6135 and then the A6102 to reach Grimesthorpe. We took a footpath into Wincobank wood eventually climbing upto the Fort ramparts and onto the central path through them. We carried on in a N Easterly direction taking first path down to meet suburban road leading to High Wincobank. All this was done in persistent drizzle!. | Dazingdale | 12/04/2016 |
| Meadowhell has one redeeming feature in that this pleasant little hill is only 30 mins walk away. | Jake994 | 07/11/2015 |
| Made famous when the 2014 Tour de France came to Yorkshire and sent the riders up the killer climb of Jenkin Road -which crosses the eastern shoulder of the hill. The summit commands a birds eye view over Sheffield and the Lower Don Valley with its steelworks and Meadowhall shopping centre. It is the site of an iron age hill fort and in WW1 was the site of an antiaircraft gun protecting the steelworks from potential Zeplin attacks. Sadly on the one occasion a Zeplin did attack and drop 36 bombs - no shots were fired as all of the officers (who could give the order to fire) were at a ball! In WWII it was also the site of anti aircraft gun and searchlight. | Chris Pearson | 02/08/2015 |
| Very pleasant with good view | Mark Sims | 24/07/2015 |
| With Parkwood Springs & Keppel's Column from Sheffield city centre. | ngthack | 21/04/2015 |
| From Parkwood Springs, a surprisingly good climb up to the 'Iron Age Fort'. Walked along all ramparts to claim top. Down to Meadowhell after. | DanHolme | 29/12/2014 |
| A revisit - but as I have no idea when first time, let's count this one. With the swell-dug. | Martin R | 22/11/2014 |
| A historic place to visit with Martin Richardson. Park on Jenkin Road or the narrow Fort Hill Road or easy at the end of Sandstone Avenue. | Dugswell2 | 22/11/2014 |
| Started from NE by a very unusual set of monuments/artworks, followed cobbled track. High point banking near where hillfort was, or further along, another banking near the strangest oak tree ever. | Aye Jimmy | 26/10/2014 |
| Short walk from Fort Hill Road | citygent | 27/06/2014 |
| Brigante hill fort. Concrete base near summit used to be the site of a cafe long since gone. | Adrian | 31/12/2011 |
| Great urban fell race | PaulE | 11/08/2011 |
| North Sheffield trig tigger from Chapeltown to Meadowhall via 6 trigs. Pillar long since destroyed. | Mac.Hawk | 03/05/2011 |
| RHW | 11/03/2006 | |
| Date approx - as part of second year university course | Ashley | 01/10/2002 |
| veganvixen | 13/04/2024 | |
| Andy West | 15/01/2024 | |
| lenman | 26/12/2023 | |
| malcorbett | 19/03/2023 | |
| Halfdecent | 08/11/2022 | |
| Matt | 22/08/2022 | |
| dickiewren | 09/11/2021 | |
| johnkenyon | 15/11/2020 | |
| Bag For Life | 24/05/2020 | |
| Neil Midgley | 08/03/2020 |