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Name:The Vale (Heston)
Hill number:5583
Height:35m / 115ft
Parent (Ma):2874  Wendover Woods [Haddington Hill]
RHB Section:39: Central and Eastern England
County/UA:Greater London
London Borough:Hounslow (LB)
Catchment:Thames
Class:London Borough Top
(CoL)
Grid ref:TQ 12290 77621
Summit feature:no feature: ground in road
Drop:4m
Col:31m  TQ123798  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 176
(1:25k) 161
Observations:very flat area
Comments:Small 35m ring contour
GPS data:show GPS entries for this hill
Notes:
  • Hounslow London Borough top

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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 75 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all)ByDate of Ascent
Walked from Hounslow west underground station and onto Southall station.colinfielding20/03/2024
After dropping off my son at the airport.Andrew Pearson27/12/2023
From Wimbledon, Merton tops, Putney Heath, King Henry VIII Mound, Heston and Horsenden Hill. Front door styles very diverse in this part of the world but Greenford was depressing. Finished at Perivale.PhilipChaston26/11/2023
8 of 17. From Hounslow West station on the Piccadilly line.WAYNE ROWLETT22/07/2023
Detour from London LOOPlerritt19/02/2022
Done as part of a cycle. Very uneventful.livvips26/05/2020
Third London Borough!pclyndes05/05/2020
Cycled from Battersea, 42 km round trip. Uninspiring.Rockdoctor19/04/2020
Very glad I didn't go unduly out of my for this one (driving nearby so a short detour). Nothing inspiring apart from watching the planes take off from LHR.jedthehumanoid15/07/2019
From a found parking spot in a very overparked area, we walked the 50 meters to the road junction. We wondered how many of the residents are aware of their significant position.ChinnockC09/06/2019
Walked along the road, and into the grounds of the Heston Hyde Hotel, just to be sure.PGCE14/04/2019
Final London Borough top. Saved the best to be the last. Got it wrong. Roads of semi detached houses with no soul.Campbell Singer05/08/2018
Entire grounds of Heston Hyde Hotel higher than anywhere on Vale Road. Needs resurveying. Vale Road still offers best parking however.Matt08/07/2018
A residential street with occasional rise and fall. High point could be anywhere to be honest. Top of the kerb?!mrs_ts706/05/2018
Dull and gloomy - weather and surroundings. Walked from Hounslow WestMark Jackson20/01/2018
Walked from West Hounslow tube and along the Vale. The section of pavement by the creosoted fence on the south side between Meadow Way and Heston Avenue might be marginally the highest bit of flatness. M4 traffic droned. Sleet fell with increasing intensity. Isn't sympathetic background wonderful...Nick Down113/12/2017
Walked along The Vale - middle of the road seemed highest point. Ground by Motorway bridge in the grounds of the Heston Hyde Hotel seemed higher.PeterD28/09/2017
Very exciting. After Windsor Castle.ngthack09/08/2017
Only for a bagger.clivevilla26/08/2016
Unremarkable. There is no evidence of the contour shown on OS maps. All very flat. Came in via Cranford Lane as The Vale is blocked from North Hyde LaneSixtyplus20/08/2016
1/16 First of sixteen on London Borough Top bagging day (The Vale/Horsenden Hill/Sudbury Hill/Wakemans Hill Avenue/Bushey Hill (Boundary)/Highgate/Highgate Hill/Highwood Hill/Bournwell Hill (Hadley Wood)/Pole Hill/Wanstead Flatts/Marks Gate/Cabin Hill/Havering Atte Bowe Farm/Havering Atte Bowe Church/Potter Street Hill)Fergalh20/08/2016
Every day at Heathrow 1,400 flights take off and land – one every 45 seconds which is nearly half a million per year and all of them fly low over here as the end of the runway is only 2 miles away and points this way. My brief halt here brought back memories of 1995 spending 3 days in Hounslow, and even closer to Heathrow, packing for an expedition to Pakistan and having to stop talking every 45 seconds as a plane took off drowning out all talk. Only slightly better here.Chris Pearson08/06/2016
Called here following a drop-off at Heathrow Airport and a Wetherspoon breakfast in Hounslow. As other loggers. Also had a stroll to the motorway bridge and admired the view along the M4. Nothing strenuous enough to walk off my breakfast!Richard Gunn03/04/2016
Simple walk from Hounslow West tube. Top hard to identify exactly. An unimpressive hill on a day of impressive weather as in the 40 mins I was out I suffered squalls of hail, sleet, rain with distant thunder, pus sunshine, litter on the streets and large planes overhead.trimarc202/03/2016
TD, C & H by tube and bus.This Dog23/02/2016
I think this need to be validated - Hard to believe this is a top of anything. This is a flat road, no distinguishing marks and the most uninteresting spot to bag. Incorporated as part of a 7 miles loop jog from Gillette’s Corner through Osterley Park. At least the jog was good.bgalon20/01/2016
6 of 6 LBT's visited today by car.mcallmar24/09/2015
Very flat summit: road seems as high as anywhere.RHW15/02/2015
Absolutely nothing to commend this hill - except ease of parking.jonglew06/12/2014
Tick in the log. Nothing else.ijpowell22/10/2014
Detour on way to Newbury.squeegs29/09/2013
The commentary already added. Dreadful spot made ok by available parking! Today high point was an old rolled up banana skin, better than dog dirt I guess! Won't be on the repeat list.nordicstar05/02/2013
Visited With Darren while trying to visit all the high points on London in one day.magirob10/01/2013
I too walked up and down to be on the safe side. Rubbish 'top' and I think the highest point was some dog crap.simon and co03/12/2012
Not easy to tell where the highest point is on this very flat road, so walked the whole length of it to be sure. Boring, but at least easy parkingHillsidenick28/07/2012
Housing estate...BazWylie08/03/2011
Biked from home (Kew) via Horsenden Hill. Along the canal back towards The Vale. No special high point and view as ordinary as any other street the outskirts of London. So nothing special with this. Arrived around 8 pm so dark at this time of the year.NilsOS16/09/2010
Could be anywhere - went to the Vale and the Industrial estate, and to both motorway bridge embankments. I feel it should be the latter - I know they're man-made, but so is everything else here! Everything I expected of a London Borough Top and less...wheresthepath21/02/2010
One of the more pointless tops!Overthehilljill14/10/2009
Parked by M4 overbridge near disused hotel and walked up and down The Vale. All seems much the same height wise.Nick02/09/2009
I agree with Gary - this road was virtually flat and there no way you can gain five metres on it. The high point appears to be in an industrial estate at 34 metres, although it's all flat there too so near impossible to pick the highest point.Richard24/05/2009
Height at this grid ref can only be 30m as there is no elevation gain from the 30m contour. Agree that the grassy area next to the embankment is higher but does not the 34m spot height win out a mile to the NWgaryhoney13/12/2008
Could be anywhere. GPS gives it 30m to South in gardens.destaylor02/06/2008
The banking to the nearby road bridge over the M4 gives much more elevation.Smudge13/04/2008
PaulOnFoot16/06/2023
Martin R11/11/2022
GordonAdshead03/09/2022
FinnTumps23/01/2022
johnkenyon03/08/2020
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