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| Name: | Ashley Heath |
| Hill number: | 5391 |
| Height: | 236m / 774ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2825 The Cloud |
| RHB Section: | 36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines |
| County/UA: | Staffordshire |
| Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Severn, Trent |
| Watershed: | Humber Estuary, Ardnamurchan Point to Lowestoft, Dover to Cape Wrath, Lowestoft to Duncansby Head, Land's End to John o' Groats, Severn Estuary, The Lizard to Dunnet Head |
| Class: | Hump, Tump (200-299m), Clem (Hu,Tu,2,Cm) |
| Grid ref: | SJ 74591 35797 |
| Summit feature: | road verge |
| Drop: | 119m |
| Col: | 117m SJ792406  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 127 (1:25k) 243 |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 108 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Morning detour on route to funeral near Kettering. Pleasant village and big houses. | N.Morters | 21/02/2023 |
| Incorporated into a nice circuit with Burnt Heath nature reserve. Nice trees in locale. | Dazingdale | 10/02/2023 |
| Total drive-up - barely even had to get out. Very big houses! | Mark Jackson | 22/12/2022 |
| Drove up a road to the top. Went with Dad. | speedyclimber | 03/12/2022 |
| Drove up Tower road and parked for short while by water tower whilst explored likely HPs. | PeterD | 24/11/2022 |
| Good to see lots of nasty trees have been felled to make way for a few big houses. | Wycombe Wanderer | 28/05/2022 |
| Drove up Tower Road to the water tower and walked around a bit. | NormanW | 27/05/2022 |
| Drive by | Longwojo | 02/04/2022 |
| A hidden away hill on a well to do leafy private road.No access issues. The Burntwood woodland to the west used to hide away a TB sanatorium from 1920s until 1969 where it was believed at the time that the fresh air was an effective treatment for the disease. Patients were sometimes put outside in their beds and encouraged to breathe in the air. Nowadays 4 different drugs over 8 weeks are tried... although interesting that similar advice continues of late to fend off Covid - good ventilation is recommended i.e. keeping rooms freezing with doors and windows open but to reduce it spreading rather than as a cure. | Chris Pearson | 30/03/2022 |
| As others, from good 1-car layby at NE End of Tower Road. Most interest is looking at the houses. Road seemed perfectly ok to drive over | pwheeler | 28/02/2022 |
| Parked at bottom of Tower Road and walked up. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 22/11/2021 |
| Quick Bag after a Visit to Monkey Forest. Enough Room at the NE End of Tower Road to Park 1 Car Behind the Tree, SJ7483536100. Pleasant Stroll to the Road Summit near Winberry. | Jephcote83 | 09/06/2021 |
| TP Log .. Walted up to log the Intersect station (Water Tower) | Deego | 08/05/2021 |
| You could drive all the way to the summit up Tower Road but I chose to park outside No7 as the road was unadopted and I did not want to upset the natives. Short walk up Tower Road around the corner to the Radio Mast compound. HP is on brow of hill just past outside the neighbouring property. | mntainman | 15/04/2021 |
| Drove up a shared access unmetalled road, then drove on in fear of being confronted and accused of casing the joint. | Topographer57 | 03/09/2019 |
| This would have been a nice area of heathland once! Not the best of hills now. | jenx | 20/10/2018 |
| Repeat with Jenx and Bryher | nordicstar | 20/10/2018 |
| Parked at SW end of Tower Road, a few yards from the junction with the B5026 - Up unmetalled road to the verge summit which lies alongside 'Whinberry', just beyond the water tower & mast. (S) | gerrybowes | 05/10/2018 |
| Walked up Tower road from NE easy parking on Pinewood road. | mart0797 | 09/03/2018 |
| Drove up private dirt road to water tower. | jonglew | 18/02/2018 |
| Market Drayton to Ashley Church. A number of the up market houses around here appeared particularly ugly to me. | Smudge | 06/01/2018 |
| Parked at Co-op and walked up to water tower. About 40m ascent. | RoguePulsar | 13/12/2017 |
| Walked up Tower Road, parking at Birch Rise. | muzza2 | 02/09/2017 |
| With K, RM, S and LS. Drive by! | Ashley | 09/07/2017 |
| Drove up and walked between 'Whinberry' and water tower. | David Evans | 25/02/2017 |
| Eight short Staffordshire Tump walks today, with drives between. Parked at SW end of Tower Road and walked up to summit. | davidpettit84 | 28/01/2017 |
| Felt like enough of a hill cycling here and back from Crewe station on a 5 Tump/trig day. | Alex C | 20/01/2017 |
| A very strange place for a hump summit. Chatted to a guy called Rod who fairly recently moved into a big house 50m off so from Winberry. | vegibagger | 27/07/2016 |
| Took summit to be crest of Tower Road just beyond water tower, outside Whinberry. | Aye Jimmy | 06/03/2016 |
| Parked the mothership which i cunningly disguised as a watertower and teleported down to earth. I'd say the ufo is as good a spot as any to call the top. | stig_nest | 20/12/2015 |
| Drove up Tower Road & wished I had walked, out of consideration for the van. Amazing what a difference a Hump makes. 11 other Staffordshire Tumps today, all with only two or three ascents each. | ngthack | 18/11/2015 |
| 13/13 Last of long day Castle Ring/Meir Heath/Overmoor/Hen Cloud/The Roaches/Ramshaw Rocks/Oliver Hill/Birchenough Hill/Shutingscloe/High Moor/Ely Brow/Sponds Hill/Ashley Heath | Fergalh | 19/09/2015 |
| Adrienne's first tick since her knee replacement, and we did walk to the top! | softsquare | 02/07/2015 |
| A short stroll from the coop car park. obvious summit on dirt track. | rhalstead | 27/04/2013 |
| On way back home north, called in off M6. Unremarkable, classic urban HuMP. Thought spot 10m up track higher. | nordicstar | 13/09/2012 |
| Thought i would be lazy & drive up Tower rd, Should've walked, the roads rough. Also it was hardly worth getting out for a stroll, is there such a thing as a drive-by-bagging? At least the weather was good. | apricorum | 31/08/2012 |
| Jumped off bus at Loggerheads and jogged up to the top (a surprisingly steep jog, actually) and eventually found Whinberry. Had a stroll in Burnt Wood after. | DanHolme | 23/07/2012 |
| Parked next to the water tower and then took the short walk to whinberry. | The Team | 13/05/2012 |
| Tower road not metalled - although cars do drive along it. Parked easily on road to SW. | destaylor | 25/08/2011 |
| . | CreakingHiker | 19/08/2011 |
| By car. | adrianturner | 21/05/2011 |
| Top seems to be on Tower Road. | chrisbien | 10/04/2011 |
| Just stepped out of car outside Whinberry and took GPS reading. This was my local Hump when I lived at Loggerheads in 1977 for six months. Amazingly rough roads serving such posh houses. | chriswatson | 05/04/2011 |
| Stood on a pile of old broken concrete by the water tower entrance, for the highest point. I think Ted R means E not W. The road to the W (Pinewood Drive) is lower. Also walked along Heath Top to make sure. | malcorbett | 28/03/2011 |
| Park at end of Tower Road on grey dry morning. Top on road beside house called Whinberry whose owner wondered what I was doing with my camera and GPS....poor reception...even locumed for Shire Vets in village. | Dugswell2 | 31/10/2010 |
| Certainly a different experience from most summits - I don't think I've ever seen a sofa being delivered at a summit before. Certainly only worth visiting to bag, although the houses looks like a nice community in which to live. | Chingwakabungya | 28/10/2010 |
| Un made roads in a very expensive housing area. No real top, although highest point probably near a water tank and mast both behind some formidable iron railings. 10.30. | arranc | 08/10/2010 |
| I agree with other baggers that the top is on the untarmaced road near the tower. I actually think the top is on the entrance to the drive to a house called Whinberry. So if you want to own a top wait for this to come onto the market! | simon and co | 04/04/2010 |
| Another hump which leaves you wondering why you bother ! http://www.heavyhorses.co.uk/humps | heavyhorses | 24/03/2010 |
| En passant. | summitsup | 09/03/2010 |