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Name: | Barr Beacon |
Hill number: | 5556 |
Height: | 227m / 745ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2870 Walton Hill |
RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
County/UA: | Walsall |
Catchment: | Trent |
Class: | Tump (200-299m), Current County/UA Top, Clem (Tu,2,CoU,Cm) |
Grid ref: | SP 06117 97275 |
Summit feature: | small grassy mound |
Drop: | 82m |
Col: | 145m SK053048 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 139 (1:25k) 220N |
Observations: | mound is 10m S of war memorial, itself on large, man made grassy mound; trig point is 120m N at SP 06071 97385 |
Comments: | Summit re-located from trig at SP 06071 97385 in July 2012. Trig sits on man made reservoir embankment. |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 160 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Got the bus from Moor Street station to the south-east corner of the park, then walked up in ten minutes. As it was 11 November a fitting day to visit the memorial on the summit, with great views to the west. | Richard | 11/11/2023 |
From south entrance, cold and dark but nice views of surrounding area all lit up. Way in was locked when going back down, had to reverse all the way back up in the dark and had no idea if the other entrance was still open. Luckily it was. Probably won't be going back in daylight. | Stuzinho | 07/11/2023 |
From S. entrance, up to large car park. A short walk to summit & then steps up man-made mound to impressive war memorial with toposcope. Despite the pylons, a fine viewpoint. | gerrybowes | 02/07/2023 |
Beautiful views, and amazing place to visit. Clearly a place for the unfavourable to visit unfortunately, I won't want to visit again. | Brian_Chambers | 03/06/2023 |
After a rather cold and blustery night orienteering race. Midlands conurbation - lots of sparkly lights | M3WDD | 12/01/2023 |
Gates at the SW corner of the park were closed because it was after dark, so parked in front of them and walked up. This was possibly a mistake. There were a lot of cars with people in them parked up in the dark car park and a strong smell of drugs. Think the other track (coming up from the W) would still have been open - at least those cars must have been planning to get out somehow... | Mark Jackson | 26/11/2022 |
Main hill of a short day driving and bagging Tumps with brother, Pete. This was my first ever visit despite being a 67 year old Brummie. It used to be prominent in a view from our 3 storey house in Hall Green (S.B'ham) but today low sun and haze meant we couldn't make out anything well to the S; good views over to The Wrekin and Cannock Chase. | pwheeler | 03/01/2022 |
One-off trip after picking Evie up from Stafford. With Evie and Felix. Nice views of Clees, Long Mynd, Wrekin, Birmingham. Popular with young couples in cars and ham radio enthusiasts. | RoguePulsar | 22/08/2021 |
Road up to the top go to path which leads to war memorial very short went with Dad and Evie. | speedyclimber | 22/08/2021 |
Long run exploring some of West Brom! | quadbarrel | 29/04/2021 |
Last of the 5 Birmingham UACs picked off as a short detour from the M6 on one of the many trips to Scotland. 
Nice to find an obvious summit (not always the case for Birmingham UACs) though high point is apparently a mound 10m south of war memorial, so not so obvious. 
Attempted to go to trig but was easily deterred by spike iron fence, confirming I am not (yet) a fully committed trig bagger | mntainman | 23/08/2020 |
Re-visit for new summit. | andrew brown | 03/08/2020 |
Tame Bridge to Aldridge. | Smudge | 08/03/2020 |
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Parked in top car park. Walk to War Memorial, then followed fence east from sharp left hand bend in road, along faint path - single fence post missing about 2/3 way along | CreakingHiker | 18/12/2019 |
On own. Parked nearby and walked to summit and memorial. Easy. Tried to visit trig point but high fence barring way and couldn’t find any gaps as other baggers found. | Beeliner | 02/10/2019 |
A quick bag with Eire on the way to dropping him off at University Halls of Residence for Freshers' Week! Forgot to visit the trig though! | Dangerous Dave | 14/09/2019 |
Attempted to bag this on Friday night at about 8.30pm, but was put off by a car park full of youths in boy racer cars smashing glass everywhere. Returned on Sunday morning when it was a lot quieter. Memorial is obviously man made and felt HP was actually within metal fenced wooded area to S or just outside. Visited trig point to N - follow the road until it meets the metal fence then follow this E until a single bar is missing, allowing access to the reservoir. Top tip - mark where you came in once in the reservoir compound because finding the gap from the other side through thick bushes and trees is virtually impossible as I learnt the hard way. | Wheelsy | 08/09/2019 |
Parked on large parking area about a two minute walk from summit. | David Evans | 12/08/2019 |
An amble from the N car park. Identifying the barely discernible summit mound provoked a few raised eyebrows from the Sunday afternoon strollers around the War Memorial. | Nick Down1 | 21/07/2019 |
Parked in the free memorial car park for this easy one, had a stroll around and visited the trig as I was curious. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 01/07/2019 |
Apres orienteering in Sutton Park. | summitsup | 01/01/2019 |
Popped up here after playing with brass bar d at Rotary fun run in Walsall arboretum. Fascinating views for one used to looking this way from Shropshire! | tumpawumpa | 23/09/2018 |
Easy. Large walkers car park. Even found the top. No view too misty. | Play2End | 12/08/2018 |
After 7 months inactivity due to injury, started on this easiest of Tumps. Great views | climbingkershaw | 30/06/2018 |
4th tump of 5 today having climbed Wrottesley hill and Tettenhall wood from Albrighton then 
Church hill from Wednesbury metro station i took the 79 bus to Wet Bromwich bus station and the no. 5 to Pheasey, alighting at Collingwood Drive jct then i climbed up via the main road cutting across to minor road near school then onto Beacon Way to cross the road into the country park, and over to summit and war memorial, i then investigated the highest point on the reservoir before dropping onto a track onto the main road and the nearest bus stop near service station for the next bus towards Shireoaks hill. | Dazingdale | 23/06/2018 |
Short walk in rain from car park. Didn't visit the old summit | RobertP | 08/06/2018 |
A day trip down to Birmingham to collect a speaker cabinet...and 15 new hills completed on the journey :) All done by the simplest methods already given by others | the_adam | 27/01/2018 |
With the Network of Ley Hunters. | beorwulf | 09/09/2017 |
Parked down on Sutton road and walked up through woods to unbelievably stumble across 2 people having sex. Welcome to walsall | The-Z-Man | 29/08/2017 |
Did both new and former tops - needed the trig which is at the former, on a covered reservoir. | jonglew | 24/08/2017 |
Very easy to new re-located summit near memorial, not quite so to get to original one which has a trig. Found missing metal bar in fence eventually, then it's easy but long wet grass. | Aye Jimmy | 20/08/2017 |
Parked at N car park and ambled along to the south. Great views to the east | RocksRock | 10/07/2017 |
Enormous car park and short walk to memorial. | Herbert Anchovy | 06/04/2017 |
Re-visit, no access to the trig now which I assume I had in 1998. Nice to see the bandstand type memorial again | vegibagger | 27/12/2016 |
Short walk to memorial and surrounds | Bramley | 16/09/2016 |
Didn't hold out much hope for bagging this trigpoint, then my eagled eyed companion spotted a gap in the fence, initially I thought I couldn't manage it but preserved and was soon within the compound. Lots of diggers etc on site so best to double check before you enter. NIce and quite today on a bank holiday. 
 
Walked all round the summit as it was such a lovely day. | thejackrustles | 28/08/2016 |
Visited before but not logged. This time on a 60 k cycle tour of Black Country tumps. We arrived here as the sun was setting and the domed war memorial glowed, with superb views east and west across urban scenery. Also managed the trig on nearby reservoir. Continued down through Sutton park to the Boldmere Bishop Vesey for beer and curry. | Denise | 04/08/2016 |
Last of 5 hills on a day cycle around the West Midlands. My closest Tump and visited many times before. Superb views W at sunset. War memorial with nice toposcope built on mound at high point. Note:- access roads closed to vehicles at 19:00 (earlier in winter or in adverse weather!) Visiting the trig point is a little more of a challenge. | RichardM | 04/08/2016 |
Parked nearby and walked to the summit and memorial. Walked to the quarry SW of the beacon for a look around. | AvidSockWearer | 15/07/2016 |
From the southern car park along the road to the war memorial | Mariana Trench | 28/05/2016 |
Final top of the black country region and all covered in a 24 hour period. One of the better tops in terms of view and theres plenty of open space. My overriding experience of these tops though has been the shameful blight of fly tipping all around the lanes and tops of the countryside. People of Birmingham, Wolvo, Solihul,Coventry and Walsall...Don't accept this. Shop those who do it and get your council cleaning up your beauty spots. | stig_nest | 22/04/2016 |
From North car park to War memorial and then HP. | PeterD | 22/03/2016 |
Drove up to within 50 ms of hp. Brilliant views on beautiful early spring day | Barbara Singer | 23/02/2016 |
Pleasant country park with great views. Drive almost to the hp. | Campbell Singer | 23/02/2016 |
Short stroll to war memorial. | mart0797 | 21/02/2016 |
Nice crisp clear morning. Parked on the lowest point of the car park, easy stroll to the top. Good views of future Hills. Views of Birmingham, Wolverhampton Walsall West Bromwich. and Sutton Coldfield to the east. Then had a walk around the area including Barr Beacon nature reserve. | Viroco | 14/02/2016 |
Very short walk from cp to south. | ngthack | 29/11/2015 |
Parked to the north on the car park. Walked south on the east side of the mast to the war monument. Good views. | bolton | 19/10/2015 |
Staying with friends in Sutton; dashed up here in the evening, north carpark open till 7 in summer. | agentmancuso | 10/07/2015 |