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Name:Buckminster Hill
Hill number:17377
Height:158.4m / 520ft
Parent (Ma):2869  Cleeve Hill
RHB Section:39: Central and Eastern England
County/UA:Leicestershire
Catchment:Wash
Class:Tump (100-199m)
(Tu,1)
Grid ref:SK 88183 23132
Summit feature:ground on cricket pitch
Drop:35.3m
Col:123.1m  SK 8647 2365  
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 48 users)ByDate of Ascent
Through a gap in the hedge from the road. HP is at mid-off on the cricket pitch if they are bowling from the right.clivevilla09/11/2023
With RS. Simple stroll across cricket pitch followed by good lunch in neighbouring pubtrimarc225/10/2023
Road bike ride for some easy to access Tumps visionset03/10/2023
Parking alongside entrance to cricket pitch. Met friendly groundsman preparing for a match. Unaware of the significance of his pitch but readily gave me permission to access summit. Also visited alternative summit at the crossroads to the south. Obvious mound in trees.moorsman02/07/2023
Ben Rinnes28/02/2023
RichardM08/02/2023
Parked at wide road junction outside Grantham Picture Frames. Nice walk onto the cricket pitch, along School Lane to the mounds in the trees and around the village. Solo.Dangerous Dave05/02/2023
Parked next to summit.David Evans15/01/2023
Mark Sims26/05/2022
mae11/02/2022
Martin R19/01/2022
AlanD17/11/2021
Wycombe Wanderer14/10/2021
Parked up and wandered around the suggested highpoints.PGCE06/12/2020
Hanby House, School Lane.... all very flat - all very uninteresting.jonglew09/09/2020
Barry Smith23/08/2020
Smog05/07/2020
johnkenyon08/05/2020
mart079720/08/2019
Dropped by while heading northkjg10607/06/2019
carole engel13/02/2019
High point seemed to be in vicinity of Hanby House.JohnW27/01/2019
DC11main04/11/2018
Went to Hanby house and tree nearby, but mound just off School lane marginally higher.PeterD16/08/2018
as per Bramleyarranc12/07/2018
PM18/03/2018
Short walk around village and likely spots.rhalstead25/02/2018
6/7 (South Hill/Wellsborough Hill/Life Hill/Burrough Hill/Hambleton Hill/Buckminster Hill/Breedon Hill)Fergalh13/12/2017
Wandered down School Lane. Imperceptible rise.Bramley16/11/2017
KC05/07/2017
Evening stroll around the village. Impossible to identify exact high pointColin Crawford02/01/2017
Parked up by the entrance to Hanby House. The high point seemed to be around here or even slightly further north up the lane.Wheelsy26/07/2016
1st of the last Three Leicestershire tumps. After visiting Woolsthorpe Manor (on the 350th birthday of Isaac Newton's birth). We (my mum and her friend Joyce) drove to Buckminster. I parked just outside the Tollemache Inn and proceeded to investigate the village for high points and reckon the highest point is near the Beech tree next to track (with old water pump in the corner with business offices just behind including village hall) just opposite from where we parked. The crossroads looks pretty flat. This is a pretty village. We continued onwards to Waltham-on-the-wolds.Dazingdale03/04/2016
At E end of village is crossroads, School Lane leads off here; about 150m up lane at slight bend seemed possibly higher than road through village.Aye Jimmy23/03/2016
Fred Windsor16/02/2016
Got out of van, wandered around, got back in again. Leicestershire completion, should have picked a better one than this.ngthack14/02/2016
GIdris02/01/2016
Well having just bagged the hilltop village of Bringhurst at sunset and enjoyed walking round the churchyard, I just wondered if there might be another village top TuMP on my route back to the A1 and I spied Buckminster hill!! What a bizarre and unsatisfactory bag. Arriving in darkness, there's not even any hint of falling ground anywhere. It's just totally flat. I had hoped that there might be a pub to stop for a drink or bite to eat but the local watering hole was actually closed 8.30 on a Sunday evening. Dead, dark, flat, village, distinctly untumping.vegibagger13/09/2015
Campbell Singer23/07/2015
andrew brown23/06/2015
Some very fine houses and gardens to choose from. Last of 6 hills on route to CambridgeGordonAdshead18/04/2015
Nice stroll around the village to cover every possibilityAdrian05/04/2015
Jacqdaw16/08/2014
Hillsidenick16/08/2014
PONTON PLODEVERTON15/09/2013
theboylee66701/01/2012
Drive by during course near Melton Mowbraynordicstar10/09/2009
RHW27/08/2004