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Name: | Wolstonbury Hill |
Hill number: | 18406 |
Height: | 206m / 676ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2912 Ditchling Beacon |
RHB Section: | 42: South-East England & the Isle of Wight |
County/UA: | West Sussex |
Catchment: | Adur |
Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
Grid ref: | TQ 28398 13864 |
Summit feature: | grassy mound 17m N of trig point |
Drop: | 66m |
Col: | 140m TQ296133 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 198 (1:25k) OL11 122 |
Survey: | Abney level |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 72 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
SteveG | 06/10/2023 | |
The Maise | 06/10/2023 | |
Anticlockwise 2 hill and CoHP, after West Hill from Pycombe church. Down W, then SE back to the car. | Minto | 01/07/2023 |
Andy West | 29/05/2023 | |
Martin R | 19/11/2022 | |
Parked on the bend to the NE at 28918 14306 and skirted the vineyard before climbing fairly steeply. | clivevilla | 06/09/2022 |
pwatson1980 | 27/07/2022 | |
Took car in to Hassocks for 4 new tyres. Walked out and back from there with L. Me with a badly sore throat -helped by lying in the sun on the upper slopes -and watching 4 dogs playing chase. One more week of term to go. | Chris Pearson | 25/06/2022 |
PaulOnFoot | 17/03/2022 | |
DC11main | 06/03/2022 | |
Parked by the church at 271135 then up onto the Tump of Walstonbury Hill then down the SE ridge path to meet the South Downs Way at Pyecombe. Followed the South Downs Way to Ditchling Beacon, paying a visit to Jack and Jill on the way. 6 miles easy walking, just over 2hrs moving time. Unfortunately finished in the pouring rain. | JulieB | 13/02/2022 |
phil101 | 13/02/2022 | |
Kendall | 30/01/2022 | |
15k walk with L Ditchling and back (25000 steps on my new fitbit). Up Bangle Hill and down past Jack & Jill. This honeypot car park is always busy on Sundays - and today seeing an invasion of 60 + cheery Adidas Runners from London - a free runners community who were offering a sociable 9 mile part guided/ coached trail running sample out and back from Hassocks station. Wolstenbury offers some steep sided grass all around -I suspect we will be back for some hill training here and to do the MapRunF self led orienteering course whereby your smart phone GPS pings when close to a virtual control. All drab today under a cold still gloom but full of rich chalk grassland flowers (incl. several orchid species) in Spring earning SSSI status -and a list of 28 things you are not allowed to do. We dutifully resisted messing with the water table or filling in any of the pits or releasing wild animals. | Chris Pearson | 23/01/2022 |
HighwayToFell | 09/01/2022 | |
Walked here from Hassocks (then again at a later date from Devil's Dyke). Great panoramic views from the top! | JamesA60 | 13/11/2021 |
Parked in Pyecombe and followed RoWs to summit. Breezy and views very murky | Colin Crawford | 19/10/2021 |
daveyf2001 | 27/09/2021 | |
Matt | 16/05/2021 | |
Adrian2 | 09/05/2021 | |
Parked in Pyecombe. Wolstonbury Hill (trig and summit) and West Hill. | PGCE | 23/11/2020 |
A day on the South Downs enjoying the aftermath of Storm Alex. Using the SDW and the Sussex Border Path. Parked at Ditchling and set off in the rain. Ditchling Beacon - Chattri War Memorial - West Hill - Devil's Dyke - Edburton Hill - Truleigh Hill - Wolstonbury Hill - Ditchling Car park. The afternoon weather was a lot better. | Buck | 03/10/2020 |
Circular route starting at Hassocks stn. Sth alongside railway, cross bridge, cemetery, cross road, footpaths and road. Footpath up nth side of hill indistinct and overgrown. Be prepared to duck low under hawthorns. Rtn to Hassocks via Plough at Pyecombe, golf club, Jack and Jill windmills, Butchers Wood. | Meanderer | 23/09/2020 |
3.3 mile circular from Pyecombe, followed old road then track past Chantry farm to junction then followed path up to summit, great views on this sunny/very windy day, a lot of people about, descended east then south on footpath back to Pyecombe. Earlier that day bagged Wilmington Hill, Mount Caburn and Cliffe Hill, later bagged Chanctonbury Ring. | DanTrig | 05/07/2020 |
Bagged on a circular walk out of Hassocks | PhilipChaston | 28/06/2020 |
From Pyecombe church ( free tea & coffee available in the kitchen! ) via the N heading bridleway. Foggy & overcast, with patches of rain. | DanMaisieBex | 05/01/2020 |
Lovely clear day with great views. Ascended from the north via the very steep path. | jedthehumanoid | 22/10/2019 |
A superb and uplifting point with extensive views of the rolling green and gold downs and chalk-loving flowers at one's feet.Blue skies, sun and puffy cumulus. HP is on raised ground near Trig; extensive earthworks around. From Hassocks station and walking west along the downs, enjoying wild ripe blackberries. | Denise | 29/08/2019 |
Walked up from Hassocks station eating sweet blackberries on the way. Summit area appears to be disturbed grassed over ground, highest mound 22m N of trig. Great views. | RichardM | 29/08/2019 |
Steve Q | 15/06/2019 | |
arjh | 11/04/2019 | |
20 mile circular from Clayton Windmills - overcast, then sunny, generally windy. | atreides7887 | 31/03/2019 |
andrew brown | 01/03/2019 | |
WizzieL | 17/11/2018 | |
Parked at end of old main road (now shown as a minor road on map) at TQ 28494 12854. Over dual carriageway via footbridge for West Hill & West Hill Boundary then back to parking spot for ascent of Wolstonbury Hill. (4.5 miles) | David Gradwell | 09/11/2018 |
Edwin Gradwell | 09/11/2018 | |
PeteF | 30/07/2018 | |
With: hb; From Devil's Dyke on SDW to Saddlescombe Fm then SDW to West Hill Tump, S to West Hill CoU then SDW to Pyecombe, bridle track up Wolstonbury Hill then path to Poynings & return. | Ian Baines | 28/07/2018 |
With: ib; | Helen Baines | 28/07/2018 |
First of a series of hills on a South Downs walk having taken the bus from Bramber to Muddleswood. Weather hazy, going very heavy at the bottom of the hill. | Bernard | 11/04/2018 |
Tony J | 24/02/2018 | |
Same route as Jon. Followed ROWs. Good views. | PeterD | 11/05/2017 |
From Hassocks by footpath alongside railway line. Then via Jack & Jill PH and the Warenne and footpath up E side of hill. | Raymond Butler | 17/04/2017 |
Wolstonbury Hill and West Hill from Pyecombe Village. | rhalstead | 01/04/2017 |
carole engel | 08/03/2017 | |
Southwick station - Truleigh Hill - Edburton Hill - Devil's Dyke - West Hill - Wolstonbury Hill - Ditchling Beacon - Hassocks station. Fantastic walk! | Mark Jackson | 04/02/2017 |
Walk from Hassocks Station. Cattle near top but they were very docile | trimarc2 | 03/05/2016 |
thelonious | 20/03/2016 | |
Parking for a couple of cars at entrance to The Warren and its neighbouring barn conversion. RoW to top, through a field of disinterested grazing cattle. Lots of earthworks, lumps and bumps at the top. HP possibly a little N of the trig. | jonglew | 16/03/2016 |
Parked easily at end of track near Chantry. Followed excellent track NW until the 6 paths meet (last 200m very muddy) then tracked back to the summit. Summit may as well be the Trig as other ground around is similar or lower. | destaylor | 18/01/2016 |