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| Name: | Wendover Woods [Haddington Hill] |
| Hill number: | 2874 |
| Height: | 267m / 876ft |
| RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
| County/UA: | Buckinghamshire (CoU) |
| County (CoH): | Buckinghamshire (CoH) |
| County (CoA): | Buckinghamshire (CoA) |
| Catchment: | Thames |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Tump (200-299m), Historic County Top, Current County/UA Top, Administrative County Top, Clem (Ma,Hu,Tu,2,CoH,CoU,CoA,Cm) |
| Grid ref: | SP 89072 09087 |
| Summit feature: | boulder with plaque |
| Drop: | 180m |
| Col: | 87m SP690240  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 165 (1:25k) 181 |
| Observations: | plaque is in Wendover Woods and marks highest point of Chiltern Hills |
| Comments: | Moved from SP890089; exact location of summit in doubt |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 423 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Nice 25km circular from Wendover. | atreides7887 | 14/04/2019 |
| Walked from Costa Café in Wendover. Top very flat, but has Cairn with plaque to prove which is the exact spot. Lazy people could drive to within 50m of the summit. | IanHHill | 27/03/2019 |
| Loop from Wendover station. A revisit for the sake of the Cambridge hillwalking club's 'climb all the county tops in a year' project. | Mark Jackson | 24/03/2019 |
| On own. From new Forestry Commission car park in Wendover Woods along new exit road then into woods to boulder and plaque which is close to forest edge. Had planned to continue walk to Pavis Wood but lack of time meant ended up driving. | Beeliner | 22/03/2019 |
| Started from Forestry Commission car park at Wendover Woods. Followed 'Chiltern Hills high point' sign along footpath to marker stone with plaque. | Eliza100 | 06/03/2019 |
| Walk from Princes Risborough to Wendover Woods. | jedthehumanoid | 01/03/2019 |
| Went to Go Ape, wandered over to tick off the high point | jkl | 17/02/2019 |
| Lunch search in the woods...easy leg stretch once located the path. | N.Morters | 08/01/2019 |
| Decided to do this one after a skiing lesson in Milton Keynes. Upon exiting the car we were greeted by the sound of screaming kids! The cafe was shocking so opted for a quick visit to bag the summit then headed off to find a nice farm shop cafe just down the road. | Jephcote83 | 05/01/2019 |
| The road through Wendover woods is a N-S one-way toll road with the entrance at SP 891101 and the exit at SP 898083. One can avoid the toll by parking for free near the exit gate at SP 897083 and walking, on the toll road, in a northerly direction to the summit | Isbjorn | 10/11/2018 |
| Summit with Anita whilst staying in Aldbury | Ghibli | 05/11/2018 |
| A very easy walk from Wendover woods car park. We made the trip more worthwhile by walking to nearby Aston hill and back. | suzannerowcliffe | 02/11/2018 |
| A hill walk in reverse - start at/ near summit then descend (via Coombe Hill trig to near golf club in this case). Woods quite pleasant. Hill bagged & car journey back 'up North' - similar to Gill's experience trying to get to M1 via Milton Keynes (following not brilliant signage) was purgatorial - possibly best to ignore motorway signs and use the A5 till north of town. | ger | 31/10/2018 |
| 'Climbed' while staying local to attend the Geolympix | ey up me duck | 26/10/2018 |
| 5th hill of 6 on Stage 7 of the Ridgeway walk with Lesley, having detoured off to climb Whiteleaf Hill, Pulpit Hill, Beacon Hill and Coombe Hill, this would be the longest detour of the trip, from the minor lane junction with Hengrove wood i took the lane then a footpath that traverses a large field leading to a permissive path through the woods then abandoning this for some fruiteless wandering. One of the vaguest Marilyns I would imagine. Boulder with plaque bagged but road through the woods seems higher but then is this natural? Back along the forest tracks and back to Lesley who had been patiently waiting for me... | Dazingdale | 27/09/2018 |
| From new car park along new exit road then into woods to boulder and plaque. £2.20 I think is minimum charge. | mart0797 | 14/08/2018 |
| Tring station to Halton | raymondwilkes | 07/08/2018 |
| From the east in twilight | Topographer57 | 05/08/2018 |
| Parked up, popped to the café for some lunch and then strolled to the summit boulder. Enjoyed some den building in the woods afterwards with my daughter. | Gerry the Ranger | 04/08/2018 |
| Walk with good views to W of car park | Ben Tindal | 01/07/2018 |
| Parked in the building site which is a result of the ongoing refurbishment. Not straightforward to find the path given the building work going on. Brass plaque located and then on to Pavis Wood. | Buck | 20/06/2018 |
| Cycled from home. Combined with a trip to Pavis Wood. | tsharp | 21/05/2018 |
| From the cafe out to the cairn | Mariana Trench | 13/05/2018 |
| Reasonably quiet today. Not straightforward to find the path as there is a lot of building work going on. Escape was more straightforward. | dal | 16/04/2018 |
| Awful! It reminds me of Whinlatter Forest and all the other touristy theme parks that spoil the English countryside. Dreadful. Couldn't escape quick enough! Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 17/02/2018 |
| From the car park to the N by way of Coombe Hill trig point. Then on to Pavis Wood | DanMaisieBex | 12/02/2018 |
| Parked car in Forestry carpark walked across to the stone that marks the summit then on way back found a grufflo | jmistry86 | 26/01/2018 |
| Short walk from car park with all the family 'Not a hill' according to Freddy. Also took in Beddington Hill and the Highwayrat trail. | Ham and Skate | 14/01/2018 |
| We did the Highway Rat trail. | CalTudor | 14/01/2018 |
| GMn | Idris | 26/12/2017 |
| 1/11M from minor road to the east early am. | robertphillips | 05/11/2017 |
| With Sal when doing British Middle O champs. Must have been here 30 years ago. | davechaffey | 01/10/2017 |
| Night hike from Berkhamsted that involved a bit of wild camping and a lot of sheltering from the rain. Had actually been within a few metres of the summit for a couple of hours, but too dark/wet to see it! | DanHolme | 22/07/2017 |
| The last Marilyn of the day, towards sunset on a blindingly hot day. Wendover Woods seems to be closed after 8.30 pm, so I parked just down the hill from the trig point path. The trig point doesn't seem to be very useful, as there isn't much of a view. Into the woods, on a track and then the forest road, and then found an overgrown, scritchy-scratchy path along the fence to the summit boulder. The easier way back was towards the car park to pick up the forest road. The main challenge with southern Marilyns is the driving, and not the walking. Heading home involved circumnavigating the roundabouts of Milton Keynes to get to the M1. Not nice. | Gill | 08/07/2017 |
| Easy stroll from the Wendover Woods car park | mapple | 29/06/2017 |
| From Wellonhead Bridge | twg27 | 07/06/2017 |
| Wendover Woods and Paris Wood from Wellonhead Bridge. | Fred Windsor | 29/05/2017 |
| With CP | garth87 | 23/04/2017 |
| Both of us | Tonyandsue | 05/04/2017 |
| From car park | prwild | 02/04/2017 |
| Short walk from car park ..plaque on a rock (Chilterns Summit) | keithelliott | 04/03/2017 |
| Been here before as woods great for younger children. | KC | 15/02/2017 |
| Stone marking highest point only a few hundred level yards from the Forestry Commission car park so not a very rewarding 'peak'. Some lovely walks through the surrounding woods, though. | ajd58 | 11/01/2017 |
| Alan and Otis | Glenford | 11/12/2016 |
| Diversion on way to meeting in Maidenhead. Stroll over from car park past café. | SS | 01/11/2016 |
| This part of a circular dog walk for me that a do a couple of evenings a week evenings. Had some trouble finding the summit marker in the dark even with a torch. | Chilternfox | 08/10/2016 |
| A return visit 23 years after I wrongly thought I had bagged the summit of hill, when in fact I guess I only went to the 261m road spot height which was then listed in George Bridges book as being the Bucks county summit location, and I had carried forward that myth in subsequently claiming the marilyn. Put that right today with a wander among the Sunday afternoon crowds in the woods-but as other have said -the high ground could be elsewhere than the rock - with the highest mapped spot height of 267m being on the exit road from the country park. | Chris Pearson | 02/10/2016 |
| A sea of happiness and joy on the faces of many children. Future Hill baggers maybe? Proper coffee in the cafe too. | ijpowell | 01/09/2016 |
| Completed as part of a 9.5 mile circular walk which included Hertfordshire county peak Parvis Wood. | Graeme | 06/08/2016 |
| With K. Parked on minor road to East (yellow on OS). Old woman with two sticks told us where summit cairn was. Bought ice cream. | Ashley | 20/05/2016 |