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| Name: | Lyndhurst Hill |
| Hill number: | 19288 |
| Height: | 93m / 305ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2906 Walbury Hill |
| RHB Section: | 42: South-East England & the Isle of Wight |
| County/UA: | Hampshire |
| Catchment: | Test |
| Class: | Tump (0-99m) (Tu,0) |
| Grid ref: | SU 28672 08222 |
| Summit feature: | circular earthwork |
| Drop: | 35m |
| Col: | 58m SU279090  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 195 (1:25k) OL22E |
| Comments: | New Tump January 2017, alternative summit James's Hill at SU282084 |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 50 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| heath | 03/02/2024 | |
| Martin R | 25/08/2023 | |
| mnixon | 24/06/2023 | |
| In an attempt to make the tiniest of inroads on the culinary excesses of the night before we parked at Swan Common and took the path to the reservoir and earthwork beside it before descending to the New Forest inn and heading up very faint paths to the dried up pond at the top of James Hill. After some wandering around my GPS declared we were on the HP GR and we went back through Emery Down to the car park. Lots of Duke of Edinburgh groups around the new forest on both days we were there. With Julia. | ytfckent | 23/06/2023 |
| Parked by chapel and went up through lovely open woodland to the highest point in the NF, then St James Hill to be certain. With Pete on a hot,sunny day, before catching Red Funnel ferry to IOW | pwheeler | 10/06/2023 |
| On a trail run from Deerleap Lane. | Wheelsy | 03/05/2023 |
| From the car park through open woodland to the earthwork. Three ponies at the top. | clivevilla | 21/01/2023 |
| Staying locally, we made the walk through the town to the hill in the pouring rain! AD & RED. | Firesidepixie | 07/01/2023 |
| Hill with large reservoir on top.GPS says this hill is just higher than James's Hill(climbed first). From acres down | freethehilltops | 30/10/2022 |
| Highest ground is a mound behind the water tower. | Swindon Bagger | 29/08/2022 |
| Andy West | 11/06/2022 | |
| DC11main | 01/06/2022 | |
| Badders | 30/05/2022 | |
| DARRENG | 03/10/2021 | |
| Up from Emery Down, taking in James's Hill for good measure ... or at least incorrect measure. | summitter | 25/09/2021 |
| Saturday afternoon visit having grabbed the last parking space in Swan Green car park | Buck | 18/09/2021 |
| St James's Hill also visited. Nice and easy from The Swan. | Alan Caine | 21/07/2021 |
| Sprog | 04/06/2021 | |
| Matt | 19/04/2021 | |
| As others, from Swan Green car park. | PGCE | 04/11/2020 |
| SteveG | 22/09/2020 | |
| ijpowell | 30/07/2020 | |
| short woodland walk from Swan Green carpark ( free). HP ? old reservoir, next to large new one on lower ground. disturbed ground. | Denise | 15/06/2020 |
| Short walk through Beech, Oak and Holly from Swan Green car park (free). Highest ground is what I assumed to be the base of an old reservoir with good covering of bracken. No views. Fenced water tank to S is on lower ground. | RichardM | 15/06/2020 |
| satkin55 | 16/08/2019 | |
| Parked amongst several ponies attending church (on a Saturday?). Easy walk up and then across to sister hill or should it be brother (James's Hill)? | Campbell Singer | 25/05/2019 |
| Parked by church. | Dugswell2 | 06/05/2019 |
| Visited Lyndhurst hill and James Hill, just in case... | rhalstead | 31/03/2019 |
| Wandered up from Cut Walk. Summit consists of a reservoir tank and earthworks. HP on the earthworks. | KeithByTheC | 16/09/2018 |
| clique | 08/09/2018 | |
| salen | 28/07/2018 | |
| TD, C & H | This Dog | 19/07/2018 |
| Sainesy | 24/06/2018 | |
| Lunchtime stroll. Easier to walk up road from car park then off into wood from top of road | Mark Sims | 22/02/2018 |
| Jonathan Russell | 20/11/2017 | |
| andrew brown | 13/11/2017 | |
| stevent0809 | 17/10/2017 | |
| Went to both summits, Lyndhurst hill first and then James Hill parking between the two of them. | PeterD | 05/10/2017 |
| James's Hill first. Up through beech trees from the SE. No sign of any ponds, which must have dried out, but lumpy ground, perhaps suggesting old mining activity. Then Lyndhurst Hill with its ring shaped structure. Nice for the New Forest to finally have a hill. Presumably its the least hilly of all the national parks. | Herbert Anchovy | 29/04/2017 |
| Both summits, by half-moon and torchlight. Lyndhurst Hill: as per Adrian, seems quite modern structure, not a tumulus, but approx at natural HP. James Hill: several mounds and ponds, unclear where natural HP is/was. Hants re-completed. | RHW | 05/02/2017 |
| Did both summits. Doubt the ring is ancient, seems to have good conglomerate masonry. | Adrian | 28/01/2017 |
| From forest car park to E. Pleasant walk up through open woodland. Remains of an old man-made mound at summit (tumulus?) along with large circular Southern Water (Emery Down Reservoir) tank close by. | jonglew | 21/01/2017 |
| Brockenhurst to Ashurst. | Smudge | 21/01/2017 |
| Pleased to discover the only TuMP so far lurking in the New Forest. Intriguing identical height of neighbouring James's Hill and the close potential for two TuMPs - but the drop is only 28m so it is a Twin-Top TuMP ! Even Lidar cant resolve which is higher due to tree cover.(Thanks go to Chris C and George for researching this) I climbed both hills - lovely easy open wooded ascents, with a country pub (The New Forest) by the connecting col, along with dozing donkeys lolling on the road. | Chris Pearson | 18/01/2017 |
| These two hills James & Lyndhurst hills are my nearest hills on this site been up them many times. Lyndhurst has a resevoir on top & locals says James was diggings for lime. | philhythe | 05/06/2016 |
| kaizerlard | 20/10/2014 | |
| Date very approximate. Walk over many times while at Fawley. | BobHancock | 01/06/2005 |
| Camping at Ashurst meant an 8 mile, 3 pub-crawl. Happy Days!! | Simon Parsons | 01/06/2003 |
| Visited various times when living in the New Forest. | Pjb100 | blank |
| Siimo | blank |