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Name: | Gibbet Hill |
Hill number: | 5435 |
Height: | 272m / 892ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2908 Black Down |
RHB Section: | 42: South-East England & the Isle of Wight |
County/UA: | Surrey |
Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Arun, Thames |
Watershed: | Land's End to Dover, Dover to Cape Wrath, Greater Thames Estuary |
Class: | Hump, Tump (200-299m), Clem (Hu,Tu,2,Cm) |
Grid ref: | SU 89967 35912 |
Summit feature: | small mound with post |
Drop: | 125m |
Col: | 147m SU903333 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 186 (1:25k) OL33 133 |
Survey: | Abney level |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 174 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Haslemere to Witley. Revisit via Greensand Way. | Smudge | 20/01/2024 |
From National Trust Car Park, visited trig and mound with post | Iris Jephcote | 10/12/2023 |
From National Trust Car Park, visited trig and mound with post | Ivy Jephcote | 10/12/2023 |
From National Trust Car Park. Break in the rain so decided to go for it. Glad we did as the sun came out at the summit. Good views. visited trig and mound with post | Jephcote83 | 10/12/2023 |
from car park, signposted | Galltywenallt | 16/08/2023 |
Pleasant walk from NT car park. Interesting area, good viewpoint. | LizH | 16/08/2023 |
Easy amble from car park. Great views. Done as part of a loop with Joe and Tom. | fnem | 09/07/2023 |
Parked at NT car park for Devil's Punch Bowl. Misty and wet to start but weather brightened (although still rained) as I got closer to The Devil's Jumps East Top. Lovely summit and good views despite the low cloud. Back to the NT cafe for soup before ascents of Gibbett Hill and Rutton Hill. | Buck | 20/03/2023 |
From NT car park in Hindhead. | Minto | 16/01/2023 |
Parked in Tyndalls; a few residents looked at me in a strange way but I just gave them my cheery greet and passed the time of day. As I left I realised that Tyndalls is resident parking only! 
If you want to avoid the charges on the NT car park there is a small medium car park on Heather Way (SU 88839 35651) | DC11main | 02/01/2023 |
from Rutton Hill, in a circuit from Thursley, including Devil's Jump E Top. Nice artistic oak bench on summit by Walter Bailey, called Xylem. Super views. | IanHHill | 01/10/2022 |
Parked in NT car park to the W and ascended on the Byway Open to All Traffic. | JK | 27/03/2022 |
Parked at Hindhead NT, busy walk around interesting route until got lost after Temple of Four Winds! Worked around much quieter S face and then back up to finish on Gibbet. Great views to London. | cjwilliams | 29/01/2022 |
From the house - starting to work out the confusing tree hidden topography with its many, many paths - linking hither and thither catering for dog walkers and horse riders and families and all. Went over the nice P26 ridge summit of Invar today -which I discovered with magnifying glass eyesight - before joining the main churned up E ridge of Gibbet Hill at the remaining base of the Temple of the 4 winds - a former luncheon spot by the rich Witley estate owner. Having lower expectations we happily sat on a damp bench eating our sandwiches from a re-purposed bread bag. | Chris Pearson | 03/01/2022 |
New Year's Day. Started the day with new cold symptoms but a(thankfully negative) Covid LFT. 3 hrs walk with L up lovely quiet lanes through Grayswood(robins singing) and steep woods. A very mild day 14 degrees due to a flow of warm subtropical air from the Azores. Also a brief spell of warm sunshine. Warmest New Year's Day on record in London, with a temperature of 16.2C. Unfortunately despite the sand bedrock all paths boot deep in churned up wet leaf mulch mud -making for slow sticky & slippery progress. Lots of people out for their NYD walk around Devils Punchbowl. | Chris Pearson | 01/01/2022 |
Same 6 mile run up and back as yesterday -getting easier! With L. | Chris Pearson | 20/12/2021 |
1hr 30min run with L up and down from the house following the Greensand Way through lovely misty woods with golden leaves underfoot and weak sunshine half breaking through. A great 6 mile run but exhausting for me as unfit at the moment. | Chris Pearson | 19/12/2021 |
A new cat sit house for 4 days for us in Haslemere. 2 hr walk from the door following the Greensand Way up through beautiful woodland and sunken byways. Gloomy and grey. Hill gets its gruesome name from the bodies of the 3 highwayman who in 1700s were hanged for murder and their bodies were left as a deterrent for 3 years in cages from the gibbet. | Chris Pearson | 18/12/2021 |
Straight forward stroll from the NT CP. | Newton Maximus | 02/12/2021 |
Long loop from Chiddingfold via Black Down. | twg27 | 04/10/2021 |
A walk around the Devil's punch bowl. A bit hazy at the top but the London skyline was clearly visible | sconnolly01 | 18/08/2021 |
Large & very popular NT car park to W. at SU 8902 3573 - Followed the waymarked 'Sailors Stroll' to the small mound summit & trig point. Fascinating story behind the naming of this stroll. (S) | gerrybowes | 16/04/2021 |
Found main NT Hindhead carpark to be congested with no space free. Headed north west along A287 to small NT car park serving Golden Valley. Spaces and no charge here. Took nearby BW out to join path around rim of Devil's Punch Bowl. On past the NT centre, and on to find the trig point and fine view from Gibbet Hill. True high point seems to be a little to NW of trig. Plenty of history to enjoy. Don't miss the grizzly tale on the Sailor's Stone. All in nice bag with Tiarnan and Geraldine. | Pete West | 21/02/2021 |
My summit of the day on a wet walk out of Brook. I didn't hang about in the driving rain. | PhilipChaston | 23/12/2020 |
Paid £1.50 to park for an hour at the Hindhead Common & Devils Punchbowl NT car park. Realised I had been here before the A3 tunnel had been built and was seduced in to following it's route (now minus tarmac) until I realised it was passing the summit above me to the south. Found a gap in trees which took me up to Greensand Way off which after 150 meters leave to the left to gain summit area consisting of a trig pillar, a celtic cross marking the point where the Gibbett is said to have stood, used to hang the 3 murderers who killed the sailor commemorated on the nearby memorial. Summit being a small mound with post to the west. | mntainman | 23/09/2020 |
Revisited with Jon, Alex and Paul on the first post-lockdown walk. Pleasant walk in sunshine from Haslemere station. | Richard | 18/07/2020 |
Bagged on way from Witley to Haslemere. Lovely views to the North and over across devil's punchbowl. | lerritt | 11/03/2020 |
Circular with Rutton Hill. | jimbloomer | 25/01/2020 |
From the car park after a big walk earlier in the day. | atreides7887 | 12/05/2019 |
On way to coast. Parked for free on what was the old A3 just up from turn for Haslemere which I took when I left. First frost of the season with a biting north wind encouraged a brisk 30 minute round trip to top. | KC | 27/10/2018 |
As a lunchtime visit, I parked in the Devil's Punchbowl Pub carpark and walked up to the summit in glorious sunshine. Also bagged Hindhead Trigpoint. | JohRvs | 13/09/2018 |
Gibbet Hill and Black Down, round from Haslemere. | deknyff | 27/08/2018 |
Jenx and pup, interesting spot with old A3 and turnpike. Great views all round, parked at the visitor centre/attraction to West | nordicstar | 13/05/2018 |
Lovely walk from NT carpark (N51° 06.823' W0° 43.769'), £4, must have been here when I lived in Hampshire but couldn’t recall coming via this route or remember the trigpoint. Bagged some geocaches and benchmarks enroute. Missed the rivet on the celtic cross, although I took a picture of the cross! | thejackrustles | 21/04/2018 |
Final day of our Haslemere week with Bobby the spaniel. Our usual enjoyable hour's dog walk from car park to the south. 
Back again in the afternoon as dry today for another hour's circuit. | Chris Pearson | 01/04/2018 |
Dry but permagloom on today's circuit. Easy to lose our small black dog in the gloom and deep vegetation - can see why some dogs sport luminous orange coats. Luckily Bobby responds to 3 toots of the whistle and a treat. Quite rare to meet anyone' on here without a dog. - easy to get chatting to strangers whilst the dogs play. | Chris Pearson | 31/03/2018 |
Weather Forecast. 9am rain expected 93%, at 10 am high chance of rain 83%. 1 hr circuit with L dog at 0930 . Amazingly no rain. 
Families with children on bikes and many loose dogs at summit for Bobby the spaniel 
 
 to play madly with. Rain for rest of day. | Chris Pearson | 30/03/2018 |
Alhambra Rot (?) warning in the media for dog walkers to try to avoid areas of mud and woodland ! This was hard to avoid after amorning of heavy rain on our usual hour circuit with Bobby the spaniel who likes nothing more than to wallow in the deepest mud possible. Rain came back before we were. Lots of towels used post walk on dog and us. | Chris Pearson | 28/03/2018 |
2 hr dog walk with L in light rain. Down into the Devil' Punchbowl today. | Chris Pearson | 27/03/2018 |
Lovely sunny spring morning for hour's dog walk with L and Bobby the spaniel. | Chris Pearson | 26/03/2018 |
First Sunday of spring and the clocks have moved. Packed with humans and dogs to which happy circus we added Bobby the spaniel to charge around in circles playing with other dogs and children. Returned later that afternoon when the sun came out for a similar hour's walk again over the summit. | Chris Pearson | 25/03/2018 |
With K. Short flat walk from Devil's Punchbowl pay and display car park. Lots of posh Surrey types walking dogs. | Ashley | 13/03/2018 |
Easy walk along old A3 from NT car park, then on to Rutton Hill. | Tony J | 04/02/2018 |
A good 4 hr walk from Marley Common and back with L exploring Hiimdhead Common which was the NT first purchase / success in 1905 to prevent the spread of enclosures and maintain it as common land. Bought at auction for £3625. I recall in 2005 driving along the old A3 around the top of The Devil's Puncbowl here before the very expensive double tunnel was built below just over 1 mile long, (opened in 2011 ) costing £371 million or £155,000 per metre, as there was no environmentally acceptable alternative to link London and Portsmouth. Good views today which we shared along with our sandwich crumbs with a robin. | Chris Pearson | 02/02/2018 |
Climbed from the NT car park, unfortunately we had no views as it was foggy & wet. We also bagged the benchmarks along the way and enjoyed reading the NT panels. | DanMaisieBex | 27/01/2018 |
Short walk with the hoards from the NT car park with A. 
Good views on a sunny but cold day. | PeterD | 12/11/2017 |
Just 6 miles in to the 50 mile Surrey Tops LDWA event. Jogging along with Lesley . We dutifully visited the trig as on route description. Then around the Devil's Punchbowl and run down north to Kettlebury Hill and its extrodinary heathland ridge / bowl . Emptiness in the SE . | Chris Pearson | 23/09/2017 |
Haslemere - Gibbet Hill - The Devil's Jumps - Rutton Hill - Sandhills - Witley stn | Mark Jackson | 16/09/2017 |
From north east via easy paths which seem to be well used by bikers, luckily not while I am visiting. Then onto the Haslemere | trimarc2 | 17/02/2017 |
Second hill of the day via footpaths from Haslemere village centre. Snow falling, navigation easy and under-foot quite easy-going; limited views due to weather. Returned via Greensand Way for a welcome hot chocolate at the station. | JOHNS | 11/02/2017 |