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| Name: | Beacon Hill |
| Hill number: | 17484 |
| Height: | 47m / 154ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2869 Cleeve Hill |
| RHB Section: | 37: The River Tees to The Wash |
| County/UA: | Nottinghamshire |
| Catchment: | Trent, Wash, Catchment Boundaries |
| Watershed: | Humber Estuary, The Wash |
| Class: | Tump (0-99m) (Tu,0) |
| Grid ref: | SK814537 (est) |
| Drop: | 30m |
| Col: | 17.2m SK823463  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 121 (1:25k) 271S |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 46 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Starting in caunton on 46 mile bike ride. Took dirt track off clay lane then made way up and around to collide play area and through nice looking housing estate before reaching main road upto gate as far as I got | The-Z-Man | 24/02/2024 |
| Road bike ride for some easy to access Tumps | visionset | 03/10/2023 |
| Walked up from town, and at first close to the pony field and the reservoir, should have gone in this way, we walked right round a very posh new fenced in property and thrashed through the woodland to arrive at the summit. Suggest just hop over the pony field gate by the reservoir and visit summit easily from there. | nickywood1 | 04/07/2023 |
| Parked in Clay Lane. Followed paths just E of South Lodge up through trees, then into fields. | PGCE | 23/01/2023 |
| Clay Lane perfectly driveable as far as South Lodge where you can easily turn round and park. Walk back by South Lodge ignoring the gate and the small access path until you come to a wide access track. This goes as far as the edge of the trees where there is a No Trespassing notice. A variety of clear, but often short, tracks lead upwards to the NW corner of the wood where a small fence can be stepped over into the summit field. | moorsman | 19/01/2023 |
| My local hill. Logged for the record | RichieRambler | 23/08/2022 |
| Parked to the SW in Clay Lane at SK810534, (could have parked closer by South Lodge). Walked just past South Lodge then NNE ish through overgrown field and woodland. Then pop into field towards summit. | David Evans | 17/10/2021 |
| Drove along Clay Lane (it is motorable) and parked by water works. Followed my nose to the summit using a path that wends through ancient woodland; huge horse-chestnuts and maples bound with ivy as thick as small tree trunks. | Wycombe Wanderer | 24/09/2021 |
| Approaching from the South East I met residents who share the waterworks access road - they tell me that the earthworks are now very much finished and while temporary fences remain, these are in poor shape and a walk along their road and etc. will get me close to the summit. Clearly the reservoir is the current, artificial, highest point (no access today) but I wonder if the original summit is not across the busy road to the north. | M3WDD | 18/09/2020 |
| As per johnglew | Bramley | 10/08/2020 |
| Parked on lane near cattery (SK 8124 5341). Field gate just E of the cattery, then muddy tracks though scrubby woodland to an arbitrary HP. Still a lot of earth movement going on. HP could be anywhere. | jonglew | 11/02/2020 |
| Short detour from the A1 on drive from Surrey to Cumbria via Folkestone. | mae | 23/01/2020 |
| Stood on the reservoir - below a mass of mud and chaos. | jimbloomer | 22/01/2020 |
| Intended to visit the National Civil War Museum but it was closed due to a health and safety issue. Walked up here to look at site of civil war earthworks. Lots of groundwork's still going on in the vicinity of the reservoir. Ponies still here!! | kjg106 | 07/08/2019 |
| The path up thru' the woods is from SK 8132 5339, adjacent and to the east of South Lodge (cattery). There is a maze of paths in the wood and its a case of aiming for the top. Severn Trent are currently pipe laying the area, necessitating a weekend visit. The top is now obscured by several mounds of earth and so could move slightly when reinstated. | carole engel | 28/04/2018 |
| A wander around the N, W and S sides of the reservoir enclosure. All very level, good view from the S side where there is currently major groundwork in progress, new water mains? Best to access from Clay Lane to S. on good path up through woods. | RichardM | 30/10/2017 |
| Nice ponies. | Dugswell2 | 06/07/2017 |
| Cycled up Beacon Road in a big diversion while changing trains from Newark North Gate to Newark Castle - as boring as everyone else has already said but the bike path was nice! Hill 99 of 2016 with GFE | Fionalevey | 30/12/2016 |
| Walked around reservoir. High point is probably in field at the rear of the reservoir. | Ramblingpaul | 05/11/2016 |
| Parked at start of reservoir access road and went from there. Had to explain to one of the residents what hill bagging was when she questioned why I was parked up on the access road. | Wheelsy | 26/07/2016 |
| Second Beacon Hill of the day. | ngthack | 06/03/2016 |
| Friendly horses. Started from end of reservoir access road. | Barbara Singer | 31/01/2016 |
| From reservoir and mast access road through field of friendly, docile ponies. Total ascent of less than 1 metre. | Campbell Singer | 31/01/2016 |
| From Nottingham to Newark (Castle) by train then walked the Trent Valley Way to Collingham. Train back to Newark (Northgate) then followed cycle path 64 to Beacon Hill Bridge. Followed road up until mast access track. Walked to Mast, said hello to the ponies and attempted to remove some of the Burdock seed heads from one of the ponie's heavily matted mane. Climbed into space between mast compound and pony paddock and walked to south of mast perimeter. Checked out height in wood then used wood to traverse to Housing estate where i walked quite a few of the linking paths. | Dazingdale | 02/11/2015 |
| Wholly forgettable high point that one would never bother visiting if it weren't for a tick on a website!! Nice chat to a mare and her foal. | vegibagger | 28/08/2015 |
| Not a very exciting hill now (in fact it could be the twin of Robin Hood's Hill in Kirkby) but a visit to the Civil War museum after bagging this told me that there was a gun emplacement here for smashing cavalier scum. Which would have been fun. | DanHolme | 25/08/2015 |
| Near mast in Newark. | arranc | 27/06/2015 |
| From Clay Lane to the S, parked near cattery. Paths through grassland then erratically through wood to emerge at top of horsey field next to reservoir compound. | Aye Jimmy | 12/05/2015 |
| Track to mast and to South of fence. | PeterD | 06/05/2015 |
| pasture for horses. | Adrian | 06/08/2014 |
| Back up A1 to the north. Take the track to mast, difficult entry from the housing estate next to top/ Field with water storage. | nordicstar | 27/02/2014 |
| Back gdn of Park View Care Home (E of building) SK 81546 53702, accuracy poor, elev 39/48; by door SK 81541 53691 ?/48 similar but built up. | RHW | 04/03/2012 |
| stevent0809 | 17/05/2023 | |
| Ben Rinnes | 26/02/2023 | |
| Alan Caine | 23/12/2022 | |
| Martin R | 13/09/2020 | |
| Nicky C | 14/04/2020 | |
| DC11main | 17/04/2017 | |
| trimarc2 | 20/12/2016 | |
| andrew brown | 08/09/2016 | |
| Dusty | 05/06/2016 | |
| GordonAdshead | 27/03/2015 | |
| Richard Gunn | 13/12/2014 | |
| Mark Sims | 19/08/2014 | |
| Moorponder | 14/09/2013 | |
| MKGees | 01/01/1990 |