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Name: | Beacon Hill |
Hill number: | 17267 |
Height: | 298m / 978ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2870 Walton Hill |
RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
County/UA: | Worcestershire |
Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Severn, Trent |
Watershed: | Humber Estuary, Ardnamurchan Point to Lowestoft, Dover to Cape Wrath, Lowestoft to Duncansby Head, Land's End to John o' Groats, Severn Estuary, The Lizard to Dunnet Head |
Class: | Tump (200-299m), Clem (Tu,2,Cm) |
Grid ref: | SO 98762 76006 |
Summit feature: | no feature: ground adjacent to mock castle |
Drop: | 75m |
Col: | 223m SO980768 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 139 (1:25k) 219S |
Observations: | ground 30m E at SO 98790 75999 is as high |
Survey: | Abney level |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 148 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
With David | kindpercy | 25/10/2023 |
From Longbridge Station to Barnt Green Staion via Rednal Hill, N top and then Beacon Hill. Nice walk. | Andrew Pearson | 28/08/2023 |
Also Bagged on LDWA EBB 100 :) | dazedemon | 27/05/2023 |
Bagged on LDWA EBB 100 | PhilipChaston | 27/05/2023 |
Beacon Hill and Rednal Hill (circuit) from P @ SO 9863 7589 | summitsup | 22/05/2023 |
Visited on LDWA EBB 100 Marshals' walk | MichaelF | 29/04/2023 |
After Rednal hills back to Longbridge station. | colinfielding | 27/02/2023 |
Multiple ascents over the past 40 years. Best, at night in a howling gale and rainstorm, hard to believe that urban Birmingham was just a 10 minute jog away. | M3WDD | 11/01/2023 |
From Rednal Hill and back to Wasely Hill carpark with gym friends. Low cloud. Repeat | Denise | 23/10/2022 |
From free car park to SW. Lovely summit folly. | Minto | 28/05/2022 |
The Rednal Hills and Beacon Hill following mainly the red trail from the visitor centre. We liked the chocolate castle atop Beacon Hill. | summitter | 16/04/2022 |
From the car park to the SW on a trail run. | Wheelsy | 05/01/2022 |
Short 3.75km Loop through the woods to the toposcope. | James Mayes | 31/10/2021 |
Easy walk from free car park to SW. Visited summit and alternative highpoint. | PGCE | 05/09/2021 |
Parked at the golf club carpark and walked up in the wind, rain and mist just before dusk. | SootAndShale | 10/03/2021 |
Lovely clear sunny snow day, lots sledging here today. Superb Viewpoint. HP somewhere near the strange mock castle with topograph that commemorates the Cadbury family's gift of the land to the people of Birmingham in 1907 - even though the land is in Worcestershire | Denise | 25/01/2021 |
13km run starting the other side of the Waseley Hills | sturuss | 21/01/2021 |
Morning wonder. | Dan Baddeley | 19/09/2020 |
Well worth a visit | johnkenyon | 26/01/2020 |
Another Beacon Hill in the bag - and what an inviting and rewarding hill it is :-) With Sonja from Monument Lane carpark. Couple of hundred metres stroll from the car to the top. Hazy sun on a warm afternoon with great views all round. | Skip | 11/04/2019 |
With Bev | simon and co | 09/04/2019 |
Birmingham’s lungs, and long a popular escape to the country for city dwellers, aided by the tram extension to Rednal, with 20,000 people recorded one August Bank Holiday Monday. Tolkien as a child wandered here and it is claimed based the mysterious woods in the Hobbit on his experiences here. The Cadbury family, whose chocolate factory and garden village, is downstream to the north, gifted this hill to the public. In 1588 two men always kept watch by the summit beacon (hence its name) to send alert of the Spanish Armada, and similarly in WWII the summit was used a manned lookout to raise air raid warnings for the aero factory at Longbridge. Sledging on the north slopes in winter is popular whilst on the south slope is The Lickey Incline - the steepest sustained main-line railway incline in Great Britain which for 2 miles rises at 1.52 degrees, useless for sledging fun but a tough challenge for trains to haul up and down under control, with pages of discussion on the web about it. | Chris Pearson | 06/04/2019 |
From large CP on Monument Lane. | jonglew | 28/03/2019 |
Windiest hill of the day; real treat at the top with the 'castle' and views. | sjb | 02/03/2019 |
Massive car park about 150 yards to the SW. | David Evans | 04/02/2019 |
Walk around the Lickeys | pdhancock | 31/01/2019 |
Rednal Hill NT, Renal Hill and Beacon Hill from Barnt Green Station. | Fred Windsor | 04/01/2019 |
Christmas Eve Eve wall. Parked at Lickey Lips cafe and did 3.5km loops over Beacon Hill and both Rednal tops. | Fionalevey | 23/12/2018 |
Third of three on a circular walk from Old Rose and Crown. Looked further away when viewed from Rednall due to the scale of the castle! | KC | 08/12/2018 |
6th top of 9 on a 28.7 km route from Stourbridge junction station to Longbridge, climbing Wychbury Hill, The Four Stones, Walton Hill,Romsley Hill,Chapman's Hill and Frankley Beeches descending South to walk alongside woodland before cutting through Egghill Dingle, entering the estate at Miranda Close to Holly Hill road then Arden road, Callowbrook lane, through a sports ground to Eachway and then onto Beacon Hill to follow path that veers off from the road through the woodland and then turns Ese and I walked direct to the Mock Castle from there. I recorded 299m @ SO 98764 75979 and 298m @ SO 98770 75989. I walked around the Castle and the grassland for about 5 mins before heading off on the North Worcestershire path to the B4096, heading for Rednall Hill... | Dazingdale | 01/09/2018 |
2 minutes walk from the car park. | moorsman | 05/08/2018 |
Been up here many many times | PaulJN | 05/08/2018 |
From nearby CP. Great view in the evening sunlight. | Moorponder | 14/07/2018 |
Final of three hills bagged on a loop walk from Longbridge station. Excellent views over Birmingham and The Malverns. | jedthehumanoid | 10/05/2018 |
Very short and very sweet! | Play2End | 29/04/2018 |
A day trip down to Birmingham to collect a speaker cabinet...and 15 new hills completed on the journey :) All done by the simplest methods already given by others | the_adam | 27/01/2018 |
Stourbridge Junction stn - Wychbury Hill - The Four Stones - Walton Hill - Romsley Hill - Chapman's Hill - Beacon Hill - Rednal Hill - N Top - Longbridge station. What a great five-hour walk! All summits accessible, great views. | Mark Jackson | 04/11/2017 |
From Monument Lane car park and then along to trig pillar.Good views from Castle. With Oscar and Bridget. | catman | 03/11/2017 |
With Bridget and Catman. | oscarrosie | 03/11/2017 |
With Oscar and Catman. | rosiebridge | 03/11/2017 |
Easily from car park nearby. Then down past trig (Lickey Hill) and across golf course to Rednal and its N top. | Aye Jimmy | 20/08/2017 |
From Monument Lane car park via Toposcope and all way to golf course car park and return - almost too hot | RocksRock | 09/07/2017 |
Easy walk up from cp. superb views across Brum and Black Countrey and over to thr Malverns. | Campbell Singer | 09/07/2017 |
From the Beacon Hill car park to the mock castle and then through the woods and golf course to Rednal Hill. Along the ridge to the north top and then back again over the golf course. A really nice walk and interesting to see that most of the golf course was ridge and furrow. | Herbert Anchovy | 03/02/2017 |
An easy amble from Monument Lane Car Park. | Dugswell2 | 20/01/2017 |
From Beacon hill car park. Over Beacon hill then down & up through the woods to Rednal hill. Along the ridge to the North top &back across the golf course to Beacon hill. Lovely area though popular. | mart0797 | 27/12/2016 |
Driving home for Christmas. Straight from dj'ing, arrived at 8.30 am, 5 degrees C and a brisk wind. Easily bagged from car park and nice walk to Rednal Hill. | Wycombe Wanderer | 24/12/2016 |
From Monument Lane Car Park. First topograph of the day | Bramley | 16/09/2016 |
Evening stroll around Beacon Hill, Rednal Hill and NT. | rhalstead | 17/07/2016 |
Here today for the trigpoint, however visited the mock castle many times when I lived in Brum! TP:UK log: Spent many a weekend up here walking the dogs in my childhood and later whilst venturing into 'courting' as Nanny Parslow would call it. Really can't remember ever noticing the trigpoint which is odd as I must have walked past it at least 50 times. | thejackrustles | 02/05/2016 |