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Name: | Great Wood |
Hill number: | 5474 |
Height: | 129.4m / 425ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2874 Wendover Woods [Haddington Hill] |
RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
County/UA: | Suffolk |
County (CoH): | Suffolk, West (CoH) |
County (CoA): | Suffolk (CoA) |
Catchment: | Minor Rivers only (South) |
Class: | Tump (100-199m), Historic County Top, Current County/UA Top, Administrative County Top, Clem (Tu,1,CoH,CoU,CoA,Cm) |
Grid ref: | TL 78870 55807 |
Summit feature: | no feature: ground by path 15m NE of telegraph pole |
Drop: | 38m |
Col: | 91m TL535263 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 155 (1:25k) 210 |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 194 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
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I'm not sure it was worth getting out of the car for this one. | Donpeblo | 12/02/2024 |
The most uninspiring county top yet. Walked from Chedburgh on long, straight work access track. Nobody about save for two helpful pipeline workers who pointed me in the direction of the footpath. Walk about 30 yards down footpath and there's the high point. No views to speak of. Back to Chedburgh. | hillbagger91 | 10/10/2023 |
IOG Highest Point in Suffolk Walk led by Me and Simon | dancingqueen101 | 20/08/2023 |
Walked on RoW from Rede. Level grassy area at field edge by woods. Near to but not at aerial. Construction work ongoing- apparently new reservoir. | Denise | 03/07/2023 |
From the E on field paths with rain by the time we reach summit area. Construction work in progress nearby. Indistinct high point on field edge / tree line. Overcast, not much in the way of a view. Comms mast close by. | RichardM | 03/07/2023 |
Found the high point on the ROW. A long drive to not very much! | Mark Jackson | 22/10/2022 |
from Rede village by path from by pub, back by FP to Church Close. No mud anywhere! | IanHHill | 03/08/2022 |
Great Wood [TP1405 'Chedburgh] from GR: TL 78714 55833 | ronaldo333 | 04/05/2022 |
Wet, muddy. Traipsed around avoiding Anglian Water contractors going home in 4x4s (new reservoir being constructed nearby). | johnkenyon | 10/02/2022 |
Did the summit of Suffolk very early in the morning due to a 7 mile walk later on happening to do Cambridgeshire and Essex on that day. Honestly, not a fun county top to be walking most of the time on the busy A143. | DavidHiner | 01/02/2022 |
Parked at Hartest. Followed valley path to Somerton, then onto Rede and up onto the 125m contour plateau. Very flat and no obvious top so wandered around a bit. Continued walk to Hawkedon, Somerton and back to Hartest. Lovely winter's day walk. | richard69 | 17/01/2022 |
Very muddy and flat! 
Where exactly is the top! | ParkerP1960 | 13/01/2022 |
Parked near mast and wandered about for a bit. | squeegs | 05/09/2021 |
Muddy field! | jthomson6nr9 | 23/08/2021 |
Two hills today. This the first. A high flat plateau and hard to work out where the summit is. I presume the concrete paths everywhere are the remnants of Bomber Command? | pclyndes | 13/06/2021 |
After Normanston hill i did a 13 mile circular from Dunwich beach to get a sense of Suffolk's landscapes. Wonderful. For this one i had input the grid ref incorrectly but strangely found myself at the end of a road with two public footpaths to choose. With help from the owner of a nearby house i re-entered the grid ref and i was 2.6km away.Parked up in the concrete hard-standing area and visited the grid ref next to path. The path is slowly being closed in by Blackthorn, looking quite pretty at the moment, then wandered around Telecom mast. Suffolk completed. | Dazingdale | 02/05/2021 |
SOLO. Overnighted in Sheringham and set off on a quest to bag some of the hills in Jonny Muir's book. This was number 2. Parked next to the mast and enjoyed the sunshine before heading to Great Chishill and some more historic county tops. | Buck | 08/08/2020 |
Parked at telecoms mast. | PGCE | 26/05/2020 |
2 of 2 on 55 mile bike ride starting in bury st Edmunds. Followed field track from just north of scoles gate and up to farm buildings and around the mast | The-Z-Man | 12/03/2020 |
Parked near mast and walked around top. | dgresty | 10/02/2020 |
Picked up this uninspiring County Top with a 15 mile loop that also took in the more interesting ground around Ickworth House | D SID | 03/10/2019 |
Very uninteresting and uninspiring summit. I parked just past the large communications mast on the left. Summit is close to corner of a field. | Symon1p | 23/09/2019 |
With E. Raining. Parked by telecomms mast. HP seems to be edge of field in front to telecomms gates at bend in road. | Beeliner | 28/07/2019 |
Met the farmer at his barns and he directed me to an area of the field opposite the mast. Wandered around on flattened grass crop. | KC | 13/06/2019 |
With Pete and Joe, parked by mast and wandered around to a few spots that looked high, not the best county top, but another ticked from our list | penbet | 27/05/2019 |
Walk from Hawkeden | kjg106 | 21/02/2019 |
Visited a few likely spots, not the most inspiring. | rhalstead | 09/02/2019 |
Cycled | Ben Tindal | 11/11/2018 |
Walked up from Depden. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 13/10/2018 |
Least interesting county top so far. | jkl | 27/08/2018 |
Wandered around for a bit must have hit the HP somewhere | DC11main | 17/06/2018 |
Walked around by mast, but then went back to farmyard and around field edge near bend over n road. | PeterD | 12/04/2018 |
Concrete yard covered with spilt animal feed. Lots of surface water after rain. Not very inspiring..... | Tinribs75 | 02/04/2018 |
Parked at the Mast walked around the disused airfield with GPS. Summit on the corner of a field | jmistry86 | 28/01/2018 |
TD, C & H. | This Dog | 07/08/2017 |
County top outing,got to TL786 559 at the edge of the field and as the crops were in the ground did not want to walk into the crop for the sake of a couple of meters the ground was the same height anyway. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 29/05/2017 |
From Beech Hall. | Fred Windsor | 25/04/2017 |
Met farm owner who kindly let us park in the farmyard and directed us to the high point on the field on the right near the mast. No sign of the old trig despite a bit of looking around, but height seemed about right. | keithelliott | 22/04/2017 |
0.5 mile with Katy .. Long Top Bagging Day | George Thompson | 01/11/2016 |
Recently harvested, ploughed and tiled field near the destroyed trig point called Chedburgh. | Dugswell2 | 30/08/2016 |
Crop in field harvested. | ngthack | 04/08/2016 |
Parked by the mast, walked around the reservoir area, and then back down the minor road into the field where the Trig Point was removed from, which did appear to be the highest point. | Fisky Boy | 21/05/2016 |
With Fisky Boy. | Brenda Cloke | 21/05/2016 |
petey | 16/05/2016 | |
Done on way back from a weekend in Suffolk. Slight detour off the journey back. Drove up the track to the radio mast. Highest point seemed to be somewhere in the rape field just before it. | Wheelsy | 02/05/2016 |
A slight diversion on the way from Bury St Edmund's to London. Very flat top with Rape all around. A little distant from Great Wood. Drove up lane to Elms Farm just south of Depden. Grid reference indicated high spot on track to radio mast. Wandered around but couldn't identify higher spot. | Sixtyplus | 28/04/2016 |
7/9 Hill bagging day consisting of current and historical county tops (Staverton Clump/boring Filed/Haddenham Village/Pinchebeck Marsh/Beacon Hill/Wattisham Airfield/Great Wood/Bushey Heath/Hampstead Heath) | Fergalh | 13/02/2016 |
Where's the hill? Lazy one late in the January sun. | Mash2016 | 23/01/2016 |
very short walk | nickywood1 | 10/12/2015 |
First cold weekend of this winter - and with the sun setting soon and wind from the North - very bitter indeed - hard to tell where the high point is exactly - as the various lushness or otherwise of the standing crops masks the ground - so I walked down a tractor track to what seemed like as good a place as any and took my photos | M3WDD | 22/11/2015 |
Returning home from Norwich visiting friends. Did a little detour to find this top. Very lazy - drove all the way . | Dragonhert | 03/09/2015 |
Yes, well tis done | maltose | 23/06/2015 |
Visited on the way to Norfolk. hardly the most exciting hill but it least its ticked off my list. | magirob | 23/06/2015 |
Note a lot of disagreement about exact high point. Last point on weekend trip to complete all points in Norfolk and Suffolk | GordonAdshead | 15/03/2015 |
Surely the most boring county top | Mark Sims | 23/01/2015 |
Dark, rainy and flat in the gathering gloom. | edmundjohnson | 29/09/2014 |
Passing through on Norfolk Suffolk tour. Drove to Elm's farm and walked to mast etc before being told by farmer exactly where trig point used to be (he had taken it out). On bend in lane between farm and mast about 50 yards into cultivated field. | Argentum66 | 30/08/2014 |
Parked in Rede by the telephone box , now being used as a book exchange . Walked to transmitter mast and around covered reservoir . Checked out lots of areas we thought were the top fairly flat here . A nice walk on sunny day around 80 minutes . | Haygalzer | 16/04/2014 |
Circular walk with Dorothy from Hawkesdon. We enjoyed the swans, herons and ducks in the line of ponds at Cordell Hall. Another County Top without any sense of a peak. | callumorr | 19/02/2014 |
Walked there from Rede. | lenman | 22/01/2014 |
long drive, short walk, nice spot! | mcallmar | 26/10/2013 |
At the side of the road but also went to the high point near the reservoir. | bolton | 04/04/2013 |
Parked near the transmitter at the end of the country lane off the A143 near Depden Walked along the edge of the field on the SW side of the lane. (PM) | gerrybowes | 04/04/2013 |
I am working my way through the Historic County Tops with my 2 Dalmatians - Celsie our 6 year old girl and Sandy our 4 year old boy - we have written a full log, with pictures, of this walk (and the others) which you can read at "http://blog.schunikka.co.uk" | Schunikka | 13/01/2013 |
Determined to walk to and from a pub. The Plough at Rede was shut, so we ended up going to the Cornwallis at Chedburgh (I would recommend the Plough!)and walking along a dull, long farm track. The top is somewhere near the woods, but difficult to know where. Quiet, but not the most inspiring. | markrussell | 01/01/2013 |
A roadside stop in the car, very unimpressive for a county top - no views to be had here. We also bagged the trig point (Chedburgh) but it is missing, so we didn't even get to see that! | jonglew | 10/11/2012 |
On the way to Bury St Edmunds, had to bag this one nearby. Interesting. | DanTrig | 01/07/2012 |
Drove to the end of the public road and wandered around a bit. | Newton Maximus | 12/06/2012 |
Bagged by John Meades for the 2012 Morris Lubricants County Top Challenge for the Teenage Cancer Trust. | morrislube | 28/05/2012 |
KJF | crazy | 03/04/2012 |
This has to be the samllest county top so far! Just a bump in the edge of the field, marked with beautiful violets. "Climbed" it with my mum and dad from the road alongside to mark his 82nd birthday. Food at the Plough at Rede was much appreciated to get | mcf | 24/02/2012 |
Top no.3.Bus from home to Depden via Bury St Edmunds, then walked from Depden to Purton Green to Denston to Wickham Street, bagging Great Wood on the way. A sunny and mild February day. Distance 5.3 miles; climb 221 feet; time 1.6 hours | alan.65to70 | 21/02/2012 |
The best approach is not from Rede but down the Elm Farm lane to the transmitter mast. The exact highest point is impossible to place: very flat. (It was dark by the time I got there.) | AlexanderHoward | 26/11/2011 |
Cycled here from Sudbury - excellent cycling country. The top is on the footpath by the side of the reservoir. | Richard | 02/07/2011 |
Agree with other comments, you can get your head higher than the covered reservoir using the adjacent public footpath. Strangely busy when I visited with delivery vans and the local posty. | simon and co | 29/06/2011 |
climbed with Is on the way back from Norfolk | mr bounce | 19/03/2011 |
Traverse between bus stops in Chevington and Stradishal in foggy conditions. | Smudge | 28/12/2010 |
Cheated and drove three | Roland Brooks | 15/10/2009 |
Nice area for somewhere so flat. | The Team | 04/05/2009 |
From Rede, pleasant walk along sides of cornfields to mast area, fenced off reservoir, more cornfields. Top could be anywhere. | Aye Jimmy | 16/06/2008 |
On motorcycle returning from Somme battlefield. Pleasant countryside, concurred with previous info on Top location. Stile still in splendid isolation. | martin & storm | 10/04/2008 |
trig pillar missing | asbown | 03/03/2008 |
Did a 6 mile circular walk from Hawkedon church. Not a very exciting county top for our first. | Dale&Jo | 23/09/2007 |
Drove all the way to this peak and walked outside the reservoir fence with my head over the top so I got it! You can sense the history at this ex-bomber airfield. Stirlings and Lancasters once moved over the concrete here. | Nick | 22/07/2007 |
Started from pub car park in Rede village. A very pleasant circular via Hawkedon and Somerton takes about 3 hours. | The Gardener | 08/03/2007 |
I got the highest 'natural ground' GPS reading of 133m at TL 78869 55811 near a bypassable stile near Rede Reservoir. From this mound your head is above the reservoir and so according to some purists this counts as a top! | signyred | 03/01/2007 |
couldn`t get to reservoir, so we got as close as possible.Nice reservoir. | electricratman | 28/12/2006 |
Excellent lunch at the Plough, Rede. Wintry sunshine and very muddy. With Frances and Trevor. | Overthehilljill | 28/12/2006 |
My first county high point.When i arrived at the point noticed a couple of people working in covered reservoir compound (which is higher).Managed to persuade them to let me go to up steps to the top.The kind chap even took a photo for me :0) | chris creedy | 01/09/2006 |
Like others, found highest point close to reservoir - basically a tussock just off the footpath. Nice countryside round here compared to other East Anglian tops. | wheresthepath | 12/02/2005 |
top | johnfwoolley | 29/06/2003 |
No sign of Trig pillar from 1:50k map; covered reservoir 150m to E may be higher but is fenced off | webmaster | 26/03/2003 |
Parked by the transmitter tower and had a good wonder round. Jumping on anything that looked like the highest point. | garyhoney | 19/01/2002 |
+/- wooded area, no view. drive to summit on tarmac road/track | RHW | 09/12/2001 |
KeithByTheC | 01/03/2000 | |
Solo on a snowy day. Nice countryside. | mikejacobs | 29/12/1996 |
Collecting flat county tops (from George Bridge's list) on way back to Sheffield after a week's climbing in Spain (Benidorm) with Julie. This was listed as Suffolk (West) by Bridge with a separate entry for Suffolk East at Wattisham Airfield 029512 which I also visted as far as the main gate and guard would allow | Chris Pearson | 05/03/1995 |
Ploughed field. Trig removed by farmer in 1981. | arranc | 28/12/1983 |
salen | 06/08/2023 | |
CXB | 04/06/2023 | |
jamiehighton | 20/11/2022 | |
Matt | 02/09/2022 | |
dubvine | 20/08/2022 | |
Tony S | 28/02/2022 | |
Lorna S | 28/02/2022 | |
AlanD | 13/11/2021 | |
PM | 21/06/2021 | |
fibican | 01/01/2021 | |
Manuel Pereda | 08/08/2020 | |
sglennon | 10/07/2020 | |
Andy West | 18/11/2019 | |
rogreeves | 05/11/2019 | |
ronanhead | 21/08/2019 | |
EricMoore | 04/08/2019 | |
bwm | 25/12/2018 | |
Derek_Snaith | 18/11/2018 | |
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richmatt | 28/10/2018 | |
arjh | 29/08/2018 | |
sheila&chris | 29/07/2018 | |
raymondwilkes | 25/07/2018 | |
Lynette | 29/06/2018 | |
Nomad Perkins | 27/01/2018 | |
TFCope | 27/01/2018 | |
Laurel | 09/10/2017 | |
Rowan | 09/10/2017 | |
griefmiester | 13/09/2017 | |
Swindon Bagger | 28/08/2017 | |
JMLB | 13/05/2017 | |
Frogreen | 07/11/2016 | |
KatyT | 01/11/2016 | |
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MikePD | 23/04/2016 | |
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Biffin | 17/11/2013 | |
JohnStoneham | 11/11/2012 | |
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