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Name: | St Ives Bay Sands |
Hill number: | 17866 |
Height: | 70m / 230ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2886 Carnmenellis |
RHB Section: | 40: Cornwall & Devon |
County/UA: | Cornwall |
Catchment: | Minor Rivers only (South) |
Class: | Tump (0-99m) (Tu,0) |
Grid ref: | SW 56936 38925 |
Summit feature: | SE end of short ridge |
Drop: | 38m |
Col: | 32m SW572395 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 203 (1:25k) 102 |
Comments: | Ground at 72m spot on 1:25k lost to quarrying |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 31 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
The first Cornish hill walk this week that was not muddy or inundated. | summitter | 13/01/2023 |
Parked in 1-car layby at end of lane (SW 574 387) to Sandy Acres beach. Up lane, then mapped paths lead close to summit. | PGCE | 04/07/2022 |
I have never seen so much signage telling you what you cannot do. I ended up by a car park barrier where I could not figure out the pay machine. Eventually learnt you can go in for 15 minutes free. There was more but it is boring. Ended up running up and down the dunes to get out in time. | clivevilla | 26/06/2022 |
With Rosie from Hayle railway station. Via Phillack and back along coastal path. Lovely walk | Longwojo | 23/05/2022 |
After a very pleasant, but hot, summer's day stroll along the beach from Gwithian to Hayle Towans. We came up into the dunes as I'd read about an unmarked possible prehistoric standing stone up here. The stone is a nice 7 footer, but looks a bit medieval to me. We clambered up to the top of the dune, just as the sky turned black - the sunshine banished by a storm that thankfully held off until we got down to Hayle. | thesweetcheat | 19/06/2021 |
From dunes car park. Lot of area is private - why ? | Mark Sims | 20/12/2018 |
Top of a sandy ridge stabilised by marram grass with great views over dunes and beach on warm sunny evening. We could not see the similar height dune marked on the OS map as a spot height but could see another potential HP of similar height to the NE. The next day we ascended this from Gwithian Towans carpark and our GPS suggested both that it was of similar height and that there was a col with drop greater than 30m, so this may be either a new tump or a relocation. This hill was accessed from road side cemetery parking in Phillack, then footpath and across dunes, partly on a campsite, partly access land. Quiet at this time of year. | Denise | 20/10/2018 |
Roadside parking at SW 5713 3884. Vehicle track then up onto the dunes. Possibly another 70m+ dunes tump round here at SW 58022 40448, approx 1.9km NE - checked out the following day. | jonglew | 20/10/2018 |
From Phiiack on track NE then path at SW 529 386 accesses grassy dunes, public access. Superb area of extensive dunes. High point at the SE end of narrow ridge of fine pale sand stabilised with marram grass. No evidence of the high ground mapped 400m to the N. but a high dune 2km to the NE appears at least as high if not higher. | RichardM | 20/10/2018 |
Parked in car park to north on a wet afternoon with no one about. Up dunes to HP jsouth of reservoir. | PeterD | 20/09/2018 |
evening walk from Hayle, by water reservoir. lots of campsites, private houses, holiday chalets as well as a disused sand quarry in area. Horses roam the dunes | cjo | 18/06/2018 |
Parked on road by church. Left the road at right angled bend to follow RoW heading ENE. Second RoW on left (as shown on 1:25K map) gives straightforward access. | mae | 20/03/2018 |
Tick | Dugswell2 | 30/06/2016 |
Car park closed early Sun a.m. so walked up access road. Summit shown on 1:25k lost to quarrying: HP is S of covered resr and easy to access; also visited summit E of car park, which is much lower. | RHW | 05/04/2015 |
with Sharon on the SWCP | Lou | 07/03/2015 |
Loggans Moor to Hayle. As PeteF found, the HP seems to be just S of the reservoir compound. As well as brambles, getting sand blasted is an unpleasant aspect of this terrain when windy. | Smudge | 13/02/2015 |
Highest points seemed to be at SW5659039360 (72m) and SW5710439202 (73m), but highest appeared to be near reservoir at SW5693838924 (82m). 72m spot height registered lower on the GPS than these. But then it is a sand dune! Difficult terrain, lots of spiky bushes/brambles. | PeteF | 26/10/2014 |
NT working holiday | garth87 | 25/09/2014 |
Possibly first done in 2000. | BobHancock | 01/04/2010 |
Spent many holidays as a teenager at one of the campsites backing into the dunes and used to go seeking out the highest points. Quite easy to get lost wandering around this fantastic place. | Jake994 | 01/08/2003 |
approx | Sid | 01/08/1998 |
Camped on the adjacent camp site. Site did not admit single sex parties so SW Coastal path walkers were excluded. Taking pity on them my wife and I acquired about 20 children that evening! Don't miss the Bucket of Blood | moorsman | 10/08/1996 |
Matt | 13/04/2022 | |
David Gradwell | 27/03/2022 | |
Nirobi99 | 20/10/2020 | |
GordonAdshead | 20/04/2017 | |
bikefix | 25/11/2015 | |
Dusty | 05/09/2012 | |
Clifford | 05/05/2000 | |
Blen Cathra | 01/08/1998 | |
Christo1979 | 01/08/1996 |