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| Name: | Beacon Hill |
| Hill number: | 17301 |
| Height: | 230m / 755ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2874 Wendover Woods [Haddington Hill] |
| RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
| County/UA: | Buckinghamshire |
| Catchment: | Thames |
| Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
| Grid ref: | SP 83591 06056 |
| Summit feature: | ground by compound fence |
| Drop: | 33m |
| Col: | 197m SP834057  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 165 (1:25k) 181 |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 102 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| HighwayToFell | 07/01/2024 | |
| Halfdecent | 18/11/2023 | |
| Butler's Cross - Beacon Hill - Coombe Hill - Butler's Cross. With AH, AW, HS, JW, MR, SG and SS. | Mark Jackson | 27/05/2023 |
| Butler's Cross - Coombe Hill - Buckmoorend - Pulpit Hill - Beacon Hill - Butler's Cross. With HS, HS, MS, JD and RE. | Mark Jackson | 02/01/2023 |
| Butler's Cross - Beacon Hill - Coombe Hill - Butler's Cross. With seven friends. Still a great walk. | Mark Jackson | 15/10/2022 |
| FinnTumps | 29/08/2022 | |
| A quick skip over the barbed fence, using the beech tree canopy to hide from the CCTV, and around the summit fence. The PM is still on holiday (when is he not) so no security breach. | summitter | 15/08/2022 |
| Parked by the church, up the track then over a gate into a field going up the nice looking hill. The hp is just over the fence with dire warning signs on it by a fence off area which appears to contain an entrance to an underground something. | clivevilla | 21/07/2022 |
| Butler's Cross - Beacon Hill - Grangelands - Coombe Hill - Butler's Cross. | Mark Jackson | 26/02/2022 |
| Scott Morley 86 | 21/02/2022 | |
| Butler's Cross - Beacon Hill - Coombe Hill - Butler's Cross. With MS, HS, AW, A, JD and VP. | Mark Jackson | 02/10/2021 |
| From Pulpit Hill. Steeply down due north on path not shown on map. Along Outer Aylesbury Ring and up steeply on access land from the west to summit area. Summit is over fence on prohibited land, so settled for getting as close as possible on access land. | KeithByTheC | 12/09/2021 |
| Martin R | 24/06/2021 | |
| Done as part of a longer walk starting and finishing in Wendover. | Gareth1886 | 12/06/2021 |
| With J on a sunny Sunday circular walk from Princes Risborough. Used various paths to approach from S then used footpath through wood (ignoring the closed field gate with warning signs). Once into the access land, straight up to the top. The stile others refer to seems to have been removed. Decided not to leg it over the fence for the true summit & retreated along ridge for a lunch stop & the terrific view. Just as well because 2 heavily armed policemen suddenly appeared over the fence at the summit! They took no interest in us, looking down into the fenced off copse. Likely after the anarchists cunningly disguised as the local Ramblers marching along the footpath! Given that Chequers is in full view from the access land side of the fence at the top, it seems churlish not to allow access to the actual summit. However, may be wise to exercise caution with the true summit for sake of 2 feet? | NotReallyABagger | 18/04/2021 |
| mazz | 17/01/2021 | |
| Nipped over conveniently placed stile adorned with threatening notice. The security camera has gone. | Galltywenallt | 06/11/2020 |
| Butler's Cross - Beacon Hill - Coombe Hill - Butler's Cross. With nine friends. A superb short circuit. | Mark Jackson | 26/10/2020 |
| Matt | 18/10/2020 | |
| Rockdoctor | 19/09/2020 | |
| Butler's Cross - Beacon Hill - Coombe Hill - Butler's Cross. With R, C, C, W and L. | Mark Jackson | 13/06/2020 |
| BoJo's impending lockdown easing announcement hopefully distracted him long enough for us to sneak through the open gate at the bottom of the field and quickly nip up and down. 25km trail running loop with GFE. | Fionalevey | 10/05/2020 |
| 6-Tump circuit from Great Kimble: Bradenham Hill, Slough Hill, Lodge Hill, Whiteleaf Hill, Pulpit Hill, Beacon Hill. | PGCE | 07/04/2020 |
| Paths from Coombe Hill up neat grass field to summit ridge and prominent CCTV camera. High point next to small hollow with steps to door on the S side of the fence with the threatening signs. A nice hill. | RichardM | 06/03/2020 |
| Steep grassy ascent to summit with panoramic views and soaring Kites. CCTV and unfriendly signs but presumably Boris is too busy dealing with Corona virus to be at Chequers today. Actual HP is by a small enclosure over fence. | Denise | 06/03/2020 |
| As per Gordon A. Over stile with pointless notice to top. | Bramley | 28/01/2020 |
| davefh | 25/01/2020 | |
| With Nigel | Paul_142_uk | 01/01/2020 |
| Clach Liath | 29/12/2019 | |
| with PJB - out and back from Wendover | trimarc2 | 30/08/2019 |
| Out and back walk from Wendover voa Coombe Hill and path across front of Chequers. All followed by excellent tea and cake at Rumseys Chocolaterie in Wendover | r1 | 30/08/2019 |
| Part of circuit from Coombe Hill. Nice hill and good viewpoint. | JohnIvor | 27/08/2019 |
| With JSG on leg of walk from Chequers to Wendover. Breezy on top with excellent views all around including cruising red kites - cracking little hill well worth the effort. | JOHNS | 17/08/2019 |
| Mickeyfinn | 28/07/2019 | |
| As part of National Trust walk around Chequers, up and down several elevations. This is a nice little peak - very steep but a short burst of just a few minutes. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/chilterns-countryside/trails/coombe-hill-and-chequers-trail | WendyWozEre | 14/07/2019 |
| Aylesbury Vale walk | chelec | 22/06/2019 |
| Picked up on a short boot fit test walk - they didnt fit... | atreides7887 | 19/05/2019 |
| Parked at start of lane to S of Church. Followed footpath up through woods (steps)and via open gate up to top. Went back down ridge to N over the curious style announcing no access. Splendid little hill. | GordonAdshead | 10/05/2019 |
| Walk from Princes Risborough to Wendover Woods. Stopped for a break at the summit near to the security camera. Kites circling about 10m overhead. Lovely. | jedthehumanoid | 01/03/2019 |
| Walked straight up the pasture from Ellesborough church then over the little stile to the summit. A bagging round along the Chiltern scarp with Carol and the dogs. Beacon Hill (Ellesborough); Pulpit Hill; Whiteleaf Hill; Beacon Hill (Aston Rowant). Mild, dry, patchy sun. | Skip | 25/01/2019 |
| Just over wire fence (via stile with sign) after following clear path up. Fine views. | maclrc | 05/01/2019 |
| Torchlight procession to the summit with around 100 geocachers as part of a side event for the winter geolympix | The old soldier | 26/10/2018 |
| Climbed it during an evening Beacon walk by torchlight with other geocachers | ey up me duck | 26/10/2018 |
| 8.6 mile circular around the forests of the Chilterns, parked Ellesborough, followed footpath to Coombe Hill (3rd time bagged), then a very round-about way to Pulpit Hill and Beacon Hill all on very good paths mainly long distance trails, interesting bagging this summit went through open gate onto proper top and found a camera watching us on the summit while being on the wrong side of the no unauthorised access sign we descended rapidly. After headed home via Waddesdon Hill and Quainton Hill. Lovely clear summery weather. | DanTrig | 09/10/2018 |
| 3rd hill of 6 on Stage 7 of the Ridgeway walk with Lesley, having detoured to climb Whiteleaf Hill and Pulpit Hill, this out and back was only a bit further. Path from Ridgeway into woods and out then over to gate into field and a steep climb up. Fantastic views from and to this hill, in particular from Coombe Hill...This was my 11th Beacon Hill out of 46 in the country. | Dazingdale | 27/09/2018 |
| SteveG | 07/09/2018 | |
| From Pulpit Hill, tracks through wood and fields to fine looking little hill from this side. Summit just outside fenced-off pit with steps leading down to... what? | Aye Jimmy | 01/09/2018 |
| Walked across from Coombe Hill, then onto Pulpit Hill. | mart0797 | 14/08/2018 |
| clique | 01/07/2018 | |
| Took a short cut through a man's garden, who directed me to find the path. Direct trudge over grass to visible top and further to cross wire fence at top. | arranc | 29/06/2018 |