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Name: | Preston Capes Hill |
Hill number: | 19677 |
Height: | 189.3m / 621ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2869 Cleeve Hill |
RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
County/UA: | West Northamptonshire |
Catchment: | Thames |
Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
Grid ref: | SP 56734 54536 |
Summit feature: | ground on road verge |
Drop: | 37m |
Col: | 152.3m SP 5601 5496 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 152 (1:25k) 206 207W |
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GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 35 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
Didn't even bother getting out of the car | PaulOnFoot | 01/04/2024 |
Halfdecent | 27/10/2023 | |
Total drive-up. | Mark Jackson | 19/03/2023 |
Charwelton to Weedon. | Smudge | 03/12/2022 |
Bagged on way to football at Brackley. Not clear where exact top is but favour verge by water tower compound | Bramley | 20/08/2022 |
Martin R | 24/02/2022 | |
Twixt the A5 and M40 on the Cumbria to Sussex drive. All for 30cms of extra height found by Lidar over the previously visited summit location at Woodford Hill. The local village WI hold interesting talks e.g. My life as a Police Officer, Life on a Submarine. Next month ...My life as a Pointless Bagger (proposed) | Chris Pearson | 19/11/2021 |
Drive up and a wander around the green triangle. All very flat | Colin Crawford | 23/10/2021 |
The road to Hinton was closed with a highway maintenance lorry parked on the triangle complete with a couple of workmen eating their sandwiches (have you noticed how rural highway workers always seem to be eating sandwiches?). I slowly walked the area, including the triangle and could see the workmen looking askance at me. But remembering Mark Twain's quote “It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt” I left them with the mystery. | DC11main | 27/07/2021 |
Wycombe Wanderer | 10/07/2021 | |
Bag For Life | 10/07/2021 | |
Denise | 28/02/2021 | |
RichardM | 28/02/2021 | |
Very chilly bike ride. 34.9 miles 1715 ft elevation | nell1583 | 26/01/2021 |
Quick bag of the triangle. | PGCE | 19/11/2020 |
Not far to walk to this one! Took GR and photos. | Aye Jimmy | 04/11/2020 |
GR is for the verge not the triangle but they are about the same and I do not care. | clivevilla | 03/11/2020 |
Mark Sims | 07/10/2020 | |
Quick bag from gateway | rhalstead | 04/10/2020 |
Drive over. Stopped to get out and stand in the triangle as others. | pwheeler | 30/07/2020 |
Roadside | jonglew | 16/07/2020 |
Parked by field gateway and visited various verges and triangle to see which were higher. Recompletion of the county. | PeterD | 02/07/2020 |
Stepped out of the car in heavy drizzle. High point could be the junction triangle with signpost. | Campbell Singer | 19/06/2020 |
I've driven past this hill many times but this was a trip specifically to bag it. Drove from home with Sonja on a cloudy-bright evening and parked in an adjacent field gateway. As others have said, the high point is the raised reservoir in the enclosure but the grass triangle that marks the road junction looks like the natural summit. | Skip | 16/06/2020 |
geoffreycurnock | 07/06/2020 | |
davefh | 07/06/2020 | |
After pleasant walk at Fox Hill, an easy recompletion of Northamptonshire. | KC | 05/06/2020 |
Said hello to workmen in water compound | GordonAdshead | 04/06/2020 |
Have cycled over this hill on numerous occasions and walked/run on the Knightly Way, which crosses the northern side of it. This, however, was a visit by car. Highest point, outside the artificial ground in the fenced enclosed water feature, seems to be the land with the road sign. | JohnW | 03/06/2020 |
andrew brown | 27/05/2020 | |
johnkenyon | 24/05/2020 | |
Stopped off on verge and more or less at the top-visited grassy triangle and on other side of the road before proceeding with Lesley to explore Woodford Halse nature reserve. Lovely Wildlife trust site! | Dazingdale | 24/05/2020 |
Roadside summit, exact natural HP unclear but I chose S verge at NE corner of water tower compound - which is securely fenced, but on lower ground, although the covered resr overtops natural HP by c.1m. | RHW | 21/05/2020 |
Stopped to photograph the water tower as inaccessible rivet. Water tower close to what is now a Tump summit. | Dugswell2 | 06/08/2017 |
AndyS | 23/03/2014 |