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Name: | Crystal Palace |
Hill number: | 18563 |
Height: | 116m / 381ft |
Parent (Ma): | 3686 Botley Hill |
RHB Section: | 42: South-East England & the Isle of Wight |
County/UA: | Greater London |
Catchment: | Thames |
Class: | Tump (100-199m), Clem (Tu,1,Cm) |
Grid ref: | TQ 33212 69772 |
Summit feature: | no feature: ground on road by churchyard |
Drop: | 65m |
Col: | 51m TQ339679 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 176 177 (1:25k) 161 |
Observations: | hill is known locally as Beulah Hill |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 75 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Sydenham Hill, Forest Hill, Westow Hill and Crystal Palace: walking the South London 'ridge'.Some lovely green spacs en route,especially the reamins of the Great North Wood. | Lazylizzie | 30/06/2023 |
Walked from Crystal Palace station to Forest Hill station | colinfielding | 30/03/2023 |
Crystal Palace - Westow Hill - Sydenham Hill - Forest Hill: walking the South London 'ridge' | PhilipChaston | 12/02/2022 |
13.36, With Jimmy McPaul from crystal Palace Station, which is quite low lying to the NE, on his birthday on and day as Lucy Feltham Leonelli 's book launch, A day in in the life, an A to Z of British sub cultures. 
First TuMPs bag of 2022. | vegibagger | 20/01/2022 |
Walked from Thornton Heath railway station, after ringing bells at Merton. London Tump completion. | PGCE | 14/09/2021 |
Fourth of four running today | lerritt | 31/10/2020 |
This top was ascended from our walk from Crystal Palace to Croydon | ChinnockC | 11/05/2019 |
A pleasently green walk through parks from Forest Hill. Small grassy area on opposite side of road to church gets my vote for the highest point. Urban views. Arrive Norwood Junction to find the town and station in police lock-down as jubilant Brighton football supporters were being corralled back home. Didn't know the Met Police had so many officers, horses and minibuses! | RichardM | 09/03/2019 |
Up Church Rd from Westlow Hill. The grassed area on Forsythe Crescent seemed to be the highest point according to my GPS. | Andrew Pearson | 10/10/2018 |
37km run from Madia Vale over the 'mountain ridge' of South London. Accompanied by bike by trimarc2 | Fionalevey | 14/09/2018 |
Roadside in a pleasant area just along the road from the CP transmitter. | Campbell Singer | 05/08/2018 |
Train from Victoria to Gypsy Hill then walked to Crystal Palace, Westow Hill, Sydenham Hill and Forest Hill before taking the train back from Forest Hill. | clivevilla | 04/08/2018 |
TD, C & H. All London completed | This Dog | 17/06/2018 |
An evening circuit of Sydenham Hill, Westow Hill and Crystal Palace Hill from Crystal Palace station. The best part of the walk was wandering through Crystal Palace park en route to Sydenham Hill Road. In view of the topographic uncertainties of Westow Hill, I walked around the roundabout via the crossings, then seized my chance to carefully walk across the centre during a momentary lull in traffic. The ground behind the churchyard wall at Crystal Palace hill seems higher than both the pavement and the grassy lozenge by Forsyte Crescent. | Nick Down1 | 28/03/2018 |
First hill bagged 2018. Hope rest of year hills more interesting. Flat top, no views, did all the various potential high points in and around the churchyard to be sure. Walked along busy main roads inhaling lots of fumes from Crystal Palace Overground Station. First use of oyster card and saved quite a few quid. Walk to Forest Hill for second bag of year. | Hillsidenick | 08/01/2018 |
From my cousin's house in Howden Road. Walked up past the huge aerial to the church and wandered around the graveyard and other side of the road. Then walked on and did a circuit of Crystal Palace Park. The name of the hill is Beulah Hill. Solo. | Man of Kernow1 | 09/11/2017 |
Or is the churchyard higher? Standing on the churchyard wall definitely is. | Pete R | 07/09/2017 |
Actually top of South Norwood Hill. From home via Portland Rd, South Norwood Hill. | Raymond Butler | 01/06/2017 |
Day out on the Tube doing a circuit of the Tumps. Out and back from Overground Station. | rhalstead | 25/02/2017 |
I'm glad I live in Scotland. These English hills are just so difficult. Finding the exact top is like being blindfolded and trying to stick the tail on a donkey in a spin dryer. | chrisbien | 25/02/2017 |
Short walk from car, had wander round on Church road, but thought grass area between Church Rd and Forsyte Crescent was probably HP. Have been along this road many times when a young lad. | PeterD | 25/11/2016 |
Hopped off the 249 bus from Tooting Bec on the way to do section 11 of the Green Chain Walk with my wife and our Yorkshire terrier. Summit as described by others. More remarkable for the number of times I have passed the point without realising. | Sixtyplus | 15/08/2016 |
Parked in Beulah Church (trig intersected station). Walked through churchyard out onto Church Road (A212). HP could be on the road or, possibly slightly higher, the grassed area between Church Rd and Forsyte Crescent. | jonglew | 20/07/2016 |
4 of 2 TUMPS and 2 London Borough tops | RocksRock | 30/04/2016 |
Pretty flat. Summit could be pretty much anywhere. Wandered around. | destaylor | 15/01/2016 |
My train out of Victoria heading home was delayed so rather than waste time I caught one leaving instead to Crystal Palace -jammed with commuters going home. 1 hour road walk by streetlight linking 4 tops. This one very ill defined despite being on a long ridge. Over shot before doubling back to make sure. | Chris Pearson | 17/12/2015 |
Went to the Crystal Palace Market and Mummy and bought a few things there. After lunch went to walk to Crystal Palace down Harold Road and up on to Church Road. | Dragonzilla | 12/09/2015 |
Crystal Palace station - Crystal Palace - Westow Hill - Sydenham Hill - Forest Hill - Forest Hill station. | Mark Jackson | 20/08/2015 |
After work - bus to Crystal Palace | JNash | 08/05/2015 |
Did this on return from cafe on Westow Street. | Otter boy jr | 26/10/2014 |
Crystal Palace to Thornton Heath (many times in past when I worked in SE19). Small green fronting Forsyte Crescent seemed likely high point. | Smudge | 22/12/2013 |
http://thecapitalringwalk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/sectionm.html | cpjmathieson | 05/07/2013 |
Done this many times, but put it down since it was deemed a tump. | steverd | 11/05/2013 |
Coupled with the nearby CoL top, busy! | nordicstar | 23/04/2013 |
In same evening as Westow HIll | Moorponder | 10/08/2010 |
rdsisde nr central London | RHW | 14/03/2003 |
Date unknown but done it perhaps thrice. | Adrian | 01/01/2000 |
This is the date I'd noted but it turns out to be the eve I used the X68 to go to S. Norwood from where I worked in Bloomsbury. That doesn't quite go over the HP. I went on the 249 with Steve Barc from Streatham to Crystal Palace Park, that counts, but no idea of date. Overall, 3 or 4 visits. | pwheeler | 29/03/1996 |
A rather dispiriting top that I usually obtain at 3am when changing nightbuses. | Richard | 22/12/1991 |
Sometime in summer 1998. Walked along here a lot that year. | NotReallyABagger | blank |
Camped at Crystal Palace. | Pjb100 | blank |
theczernobog | 13/08/2023 | |
PaulOnFoot | 07/05/2022 | |
garlicbread | 30/08/2021 | |
Matt | 01/08/2021 | |
richtea5040 | 17/07/2021 | |
HighwayToFell | 01/09/2020 | |
Martin R | 02/12/2018 | |
Barbara Singer | 05/08/2018 | |
jedthehumanoid | 19/02/2018 |