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| Name: | Telegraph Hill |
| Hill number: | 18868 |
| Height: | 184m / 604ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2874 Wendover Woods [Haddington Hill] |
| RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
| County/UA: | Hertfordshire |
| Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Thames, Wash |
| Watershed: | The Wash, Ardnamurchan Point to Lowestoft, Lowestoft to Duncansby Head, Greater Thames Estuary |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
| Grid ref: | TL 11802 28824 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: arable |
| Drop: | 45m |
| Col: | 139m TL105287  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 166 (1:25k) 193 |
| Observations: | flat summit area |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| 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 |
| First hill for ages for various reasons. From NE car park on Icknield way- about a mile each way. | Mark Sims | 06/07/2023 |
| From parking area at gate to N. Nice hill with surpringly steep valley. | sclater | 24/01/2023 |
| Lilley to Leagrave. | Smudge | 04/11/2022 |
| From Warden Hill car park via Icknield Way on a trail run. | Wheelsy | 16/07/2021 |
| From the car park on the Barton to Hitchin road, very full. We followed the Icknield way to a point to enter the top field. The summit was found in the corn ... With GPS nav as the corn was higher than us. Returner over the lovely views to Deacon hill trig. | ChinnockC | 19/09/2020 |
| My grandad parked in a small car park to the NE of the hill. We walked on the Ickneild Way, and then into a farmer's field. | williamglew | 10/09/2020 |
| TD, C & H | This Dog | 15/08/2020 |
| Circular walk from Lilley via Warden Hill & Deacon Hill. High point seemed to be just beyond tree line about 75m into field. | jedthehumanoid | 22/05/2020 |
| Solo walk. | DaveD | 07/05/2020 |
| 2-Tump circuit from Lilley: Warden Hill and Telegraph Hill. | PGCE | 30/04/2020 |
| In maize field with pheasant enclosures. Nearby Pegsdon Hills and Hoo Bit Nature Reserve well worth visiting. | maclrc | 16/02/2020 |
| From SW on cabby Icknield Way. Quite pleasant countryside. Walked into Hoo Bit woodland and back down alternative path. | Wycombe Wanderer | 21/12/2019 |
| Along Icknield Way from car park, transfer to field for high point | Bramley | 28/08/2019 |
| 4 of 6 on 26 mile bike ride. Back on the icknield way trail from hexton road and to summit | The-Z-Man | 31/07/2019 |
| 3rd top of 5 on a route from Langford to Luton climbing Toplers Hill and Meppershall Hill to take Fp south to Shillington road, stopping at The Crown for soup and a coffee to continue on the road South onto Pegsdon Hill open access land to climb up the Eastern flank that joins the Icknield Way trail. I followed the trail Sw before veering off to climb to the vague summit within an area of dead crops. Continuing South then SE to join a fp heading South along Lilley Hoo before re-joining the Chiltern Way heading for the Luton U/a highest point... | Dazingdale | 12/01/2019 |
| 3 car car space at 132300. Along Bedfordshire boundary to HP. Too hot to go up Deacon Hill. | arranc | 29/06/2018 |
| Dunstable guided bus (Jeans Way stop) - Blow's Down - Warden Hill - Telegraph Hill - Great Offley bus stop. Hertfordshire completed. | Mark Jackson | 07/05/2018 |
| From cp to me and along the Icknield Way Trail. Good path and able to get my legs stretched. Top in maize crop to encourage the pheasants. Didn't see any, so probably all been shot by now. | Campbell Singer | 22/02/2018 |
| On PROW from west | Swindon Bagger | 17/12/2017 |
| From the right-angled bend to SW, large track to three way junction, centre one to top. Crop seems to have been left to rot. | Aye Jimmy | 12/11/2017 |
| Circular walk from car park on Hitching Road | Fred Windsor | 05/10/2017 |
| Can I get away with a maize-ing summit ... probably not. | summitter | 28/07/2017 |
| From SW on Icknield, parked on right-angle bend. | KC | 14/05/2017 |
| From layby to NE. | rhalstead | 23/04/2017 |
| Same as Dugswell2 except I did Trig pillar first | cjo | 09/04/2017 |
| Car park to the NE off the B655 then along the bridleway to head into the field edge around 200 metre from the summit which is covered in rotten maize. Then returned by the same route plus a trip to bag Deacon Hill trig. | Dugswell2 | 06/03/2017 |
| From SW in the gloaming with torch on to follow arguably Britain's oldest road - the ancient Icknield Way following a chalk ridge from Dorset to Norfolk, which was old when the Roman's arrived. Here it is sunken through a tunnel of beech trees which led to tractor tramlines out into the field over the summit.An admiralty semaphore pole once stood here to connect London with far off Great Yarmouth. | Chris Pearson | 01/06/2016 |
| Same route as Jon. Maize field more rotten. | PeterD | 21/03/2016 |
| Small parking area at bend in road to SW. Icknield Way Path initially, then up through scrubby woodland and into rotting maize field. *** Re-visit with No.1 Grandson. This time from small dirt car park to NE and again along the Icknield Way. | jonglew | 13/01/2016 |
| RoW to ridge of Telegraph Hill then S through break in hedge crossing wide ditch (Ickneild Way?) and then along edge of small deciduous wood to open farmland ridge top currently planted with winter wheat and a stand of mature maize. High point 50m S of woods. Farmland views. | RichardM | 25/10/2015 |
| By bike from Luton Station, using mainly bridleways and including Whitehill, Warden Jill and Deacon Hill | trimarc2 | 23/09/2015 |
| From Icknield Way. Circular walk with Warden Hill & Whitehill. | ngthack | 24/08/2015 |
| Climbed this hill twice before without reaching top on walks in books, before I knew it was a tump! So this was my first true ascent, on way to visit my mum in Beds. Parked on the hitchin Road to North then followed path by wood edge to the summit. Took bearing and paced to the 184 spot height then walked around till happy on highest point. Really good walk! | pdantic | 09/07/2015 |
| Parked out at NE end of lane on Icknield Way, B655. Along to Telegraph Hill, via farmer placed obstacles - ploughed/harrowed. Back via excellent trig & better views on Deacon Hill nearby. | nordicstar | 24/03/2015 |
| As part of a circular walk over the Pegsdon and Barton Hills. Walked up along the Icknield Way Trail. cold day with freezing east wind blowing. The maize is still there, still unharvested. | Lazylizzie | 21/03/2015 |
| As RHW: beaten track through maze to spot height, | GordonAdshead | 22/02/2015 |
| From SW, good track crosses ridge E of summit, which is fairly level, currently planted with maize. | RHW | 14/12/2014 |
| Great Offley to Leagrave. | Smudge | 13/12/2014 |
| Parked easily to NE. Excellent track. Top could be anywhere - probably better to do in winter. | destaylor | 19/02/2014 |
| approached in Icknield Way. Top in corn field. | Adrian | 08/02/2014 |
| With CP, BP and CJ (unsure of date) | garth87 | 01/06/2013 |
| from Pegsdon on walk to Pirton; returned by Pegsdon Common. Good walk with dair bit of historical interest | pwheeler | 26/03/1995 |
| mntainman | 29/02/2024 | |
| Halfdecent | 10/02/2024 | |
| Peely66 | 29/04/2023 | |
| David S | 24/01/2023 | |
| Martin R | 17/03/2022 | |
| davefh | 29/08/2021 | |
| Matt | 06/06/2021 | |
| arjh | 01/10/2020 |