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Name: | Five Barrows Hill |
Hill number: | 7794 |
Height: | 493.4m / 1619ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2889 Dunkery Beacon |
RHB Section: | 40: Cornwall & Devon |
County/UA: | Devon |
Hill area: | Exmoor |
Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Exe, Taw |
Watershed: | Land's End to John o' Groats, Land's End to Dover, The Lizard to Dunnet Head |
Class: | Tump (400-499m), Clem (Tu,4,Cm) |
Grid ref: | SS 73243 36811 |
Summit feature: | ground 3m SE of trig point |
Drop: | 81m |
Col: | 412m SS719406 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 180 (1:25k) OL9W |
Observations: | tumulus probably covers natural summit but ground 30m ENE at SS 73268 36824 is a possible candidate |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 46 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
From NNE: parked near gate. Over gate and across rough grass to summit and trig. | PGCE | 27/10/2023 |
To trigpoint. 5 barrows have green grass but several other smaller lumps have brown vegetation | cjo | 07/04/2023 |
Pleasant walk around the barrows. | Adrian | 05/03/2023 |
7/9 on a day spent in Exmoor. From parking area on minor road to the north. Through gate, following fence up edge of field, then cut across to the barrow with Trig on it. Heavy showers circling around. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 03/08/2021 |
From road to N, through gateway and over rough pasture, rather soggy after Storm Alex dumped over 100mm rain around here a few days ago. | milimana | 09/10/2020 |
From east. Through new gate and up close cropped moorland. Great views west. I counted seven barrows. Five seems very modest. | Campbell Singer | 11/04/2019 |
From east over rough ground to Trig and HP. | PeterD | 27/06/2018 |
In the clag from north | Mark Sims | 19/10/2017 |
Due S from minor rd over rough, poor quality pasture. IF HP is on the barrow then it's a mound 2m SE of trig pillar. | jonglew | 23/04/2017 |
Parking on the roadside due north. Short open access walk down a developing track | moorsman | 16/06/2016 |
With Bev | simon and co | 10/05/2016 |
With Jo; from gate to north across field to Five Barrows Hill. Weather; cloudy, humid, good visibility. | amblerbob | 01/07/2015 |
Struggled to find access at the southern end of access land but then came across a gate at the northern end. Short walk up to summit with Nicky Emily, Joe & Tom. | fnem | 10/04/2015 |
On my own parked by fence very cold. Filling this in live from location. | alwaysinshorts | 09/12/2014 |
quick park on road over fence and head for the top one of three mounds. Make sure you stop at the one with trig pillar ! | Fergalh | 09/11/2014 |
Surprisingly dry under foot! | Isambard | 25/09/2013 |
From the road to the north. Followed fence up in thick cloud then just about saw the trig point and walked across to it. | clivevilla | 14/08/2013 |
Did this as as a drive by when going to Linton. Very windy, with snow still on top of the hills. | steverd | 03/04/2013 |
from road to the north.. following an overnight deluge the ground was pretty saturated, but an easy stroll following fence, no sign of the stone row marked on some maps, trig is atop one of the tumuli, of which there are many.. super views under leaden skies. | stig_nest | 21/11/2012 |
From road to east, damp under foot on sunny afternoon. | Dugswell2 | 21/03/2012 |
Parked in small lay-by at SS 73232 37256. No path but terrain ok. | David Gradwell | 26/10/2011 |
Last day of bagging / climbing / camping week with Darren and needed to be on our way home by 3.30pm with 9 400m tops on wish list. Up at 7am from camp by open road in sheep field, cloud lifting to give a lovely day after yesterday’s wet start. 
Western Common – or Five Barrows – awkward ditch and fence – 15 min round trip from nearby road. The Hunt were out – do they still hunt foxes? | Chris Pearson | 10/08/2010 |
RHW | 08/06/2003 | |
Ascent made from the road just north of the summit. It was cold and cloudy with a couple of inches of snow underfoot. it only took 10 minutes. Summit marked by trig point. | isabelle | 10/04/1999 |
salen | 27/08/2023 | |
BrianMatthews | 31/05/2023 | |
Andy West | 14/05/2023 | |
Matt | 04/07/2022 | |
Barbara Singer | 11/04/2019 | |
mae | 05/10/2017 | |
MM | 30/08/2016 | |
TeamMoo | 13/05/2016 | |
Steve Q | 03/05/2015 | |
jimbloomer | 17/10/2013 | |
asbown | 17/07/2013 | |
DARRENG | 14/10/2012 | |
andrew brown | 14/10/2012 | |
Martin R | 31/12/2011 | |
George Gradwell | 26/10/2011 | |
Edwin Gradwell | 26/10/2011 | |
stevent0809 | 01/01/2011 | |
Dusty | 13/07/2009 | |
Chester | 19/10/2003 | |
ad-lib | 31/03/2002 | |
andrew.allum | 01/01/2000 | |
IainT | 10/02/1996 |