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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
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 148 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all)ByDate of Ascent
With Davidkindpercy25/10/2023
From Longbridge Station to Barnt Green Staion via Rednal Hill, N top and then Beacon Hill. Nice walk.Andrew Pearson28/08/2023
Also Bagged on LDWA EBB 100 :)dazedemon27/05/2023
Bagged on LDWA EBB 100PhilipChaston27/05/2023
Beacon Hill and Rednal Hill (circuit) from P @ SO 9863 7589summitsup22/05/2023
Visited on LDWA EBB 100 Marshals' walkMichaelF29/04/2023
After Rednal hills back to Longbridge station.colinfielding27/02/2023
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.M3WDD11/01/2023
From Rednal Hill and back to Wasely Hill carpark with gym friends. Low cloud. RepeatDenise 23/10/2022
From free car park to SW. Lovely summit folly.Minto28/05/2022
The Rednal Hills and Beacon Hill following mainly the red trail from the visitor centre. We liked the chocolate castle atop Beacon Hill.summitter16/04/2022
From the car park to the SW on a trail run.Wheelsy05/01/2022
Short 3.75km Loop through the woods to the toposcope.James Mayes31/10/2021
Easy walk from free car park to SW. Visited summit and alternative highpoint.PGCE05/09/2021
Parked at the golf club carpark and walked up in the wind, rain and mist just before dusk.SootAndShale10/03/2021
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 WorcestershireDenise 25/01/2021
13km run starting the other side of the Waseley Hillssturuss21/01/2021
Morning wonder.Dan Baddeley19/09/2020
Well worth a visitjohnkenyon26/01/2020
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.Skip11/04/2019
With Bevsimon and co09/04/2019
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 Pearson06/04/2019
From large CP on Monument Lane.jonglew28/03/2019
Windiest hill of the day; real treat at the top with the 'castle' and views.sjb02/03/2019
Massive car park about 150 yards to the SW.David Evans04/02/2019
Walk around the Lickeyspdhancock31/01/2019
Rednal Hill NT, Renal Hill and Beacon Hill from Barnt Green Station.Fred Windsor04/01/2019
Christmas Eve Eve wall. Parked at Lickey Lips cafe and did 3.5km loops over Beacon Hill and both Rednal tops.Fionalevey23/12/2018
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!KC08/12/2018
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...Dazingdale01/09/2018
2 minutes walk from the car park.moorsman05/08/2018
Been up here many many timesPaulJN05/08/2018
From nearby CP. Great view in the evening sunlight.Moorponder14/07/2018
Final of three hills bagged on a loop walk from Longbridge station. Excellent views over Birmingham and The Malverns.jedthehumanoid10/05/2018
Very short and very sweet!Play2End29/04/2018
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 othersthe_adam27/01/2018
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 Jackson04/11/2017
From Monument Lane car park and then along to trig pillar.Good views from Castle. With Oscar and Bridget.catman03/11/2017
With Bridget and Catman.oscarrosie03/11/2017
With Oscar and Catman.rosiebridge03/11/2017
Easily from car park nearby. Then down past trig (Lickey Hill) and across golf course to Rednal and its N top.Aye Jimmy20/08/2017
From Monument Lane car park via Toposcope and all way to golf course car park and return - almost too hotRocksRock09/07/2017
Easy walk up from cp. superb views across Brum and Black Countrey and over to thr Malverns.Campbell Singer09/07/2017
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 Anchovy03/02/2017
An easy amble from Monument Lane Car Park.Dugswell220/01/2017
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.mart079727/12/2016
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 Wanderer24/12/2016
From Monument Lane Car Park. First topograph of the dayBramley16/09/2016
Evening stroll around Beacon Hill, Rednal Hill and NT.rhalstead17/07/2016
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.thejackrustles02/05/2016