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Name:Ward Hill (Shapinsay)
Hill number:12235
Height:64m / 210ft
Parent (Ma):none
RHB Section:23: Orkney Islands
County/UA:Orkney Islands
Island:Mono Tump island
Class:Tump (0-99m), SIB
(Tu,0,SIB)
Grid ref:HY 50582 17715
Summit feature:trig point
Drop:64m
Col:Sea
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 6
(1:25k) 461N
Observations:ground 20m N of ancient cairn at HY 50847 17401 is of similar height
Survey:Abney level
Comments:alternative summit at HY508174
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 33 users)ByDate of Ascent
Ferry then e-bike, SIB and both trigstim74716/08/2022
Dreich but dry morning on Shapinsay. Two Trigs plus island TuMP summit. Nice beach on NW pointvegibagger13/08/2022
Foot passenger to Shapinsay. Walked to electric bike hire shop just past and opposite the school. Managed to negotiate a £7.00 fee for 3.5 hours. Bagged both trigs, & churches plus looked for many benchmarks with limited success.Dugswell212/08/2022
Foot passenger to Shapinsay. Walked to electric bike hire shop just past and opposite the school. £5 for 2hrs, £7.50 for all day. Cycled up the B road and reservoir track to the trig. Then back down the road and farm track to the grassy cairn. Also cycled right up to the trig at N end of the island. Easily doable in 2hrs on Turbo mode if you don't hang around.Minto11/08/2022
Foot passenger to Shapinsay from Kirkwall. Trig easily accessible via reservoir track and gate through grassy field. By Abney this field is all very level, but manmade grassy reservoir obviously higher. Alternative summit 500 m SE ( mapped 64 m SH) also visited ( via mapped tracks) . By Abney , grassed over cairn is higher than field but field near track higher than base of cairn. Hard to say whether higher than trig but probably just lower. Ie HP is by trig.Denise 05/08/2022
Easy approach from road to N along resr. service track. Levelish summit field with small covered resr. and trig pillar in field of rough flower filled pasture. Trig probably at natural high point. SE Top and top of covered reservoir also visited.RichardM05/08/2022
Parking at a disused Courthall farm, grassy track to trig pillar and an indetermined summit. Popped up onto the covered reservoir to be sure.jonglew01/08/2022
25 min ferry from Kirkwall. Walked to high point visited the trig and also the alternative high point through long grass and crossing many electric fences which did not seem to be live.NormanW31/07/2022
Unfinished business. I was here in 2012 but visited only the trig and reservoir. So a proper job made of it this time, linking tumulus with trig. FWIW, my altimeter suggested that the tumulus wins by 2ms.Colin Crawford30/07/2022
Day trip. A nice walk around, taking in the top. With B and R.jenx29/07/2022
First of 10 on a day planned by Bob and Sarah Kerr and superbly executed by Northerly Marine Services from Kirkwall on a beautiful sunny day. Used a taxi with very knowledgeable driver to take us to summit.Thearlaichdubh03/08/2019
From the ferry pier. Visited both candidate high points - incl. man made covered reservoir.summitsup06/05/2018
Revisit for east summit: hastily arranged, an hour between boats, a bit rushed, had to run a fair bit, pity I had the boots on! Showery evening and no time to contemplate relative height of the two summits.RHW02/06/2014
The cairn at HY5058217716 is at least as high as any land in the vicinity of the trig pillar. Harvey Groat, the local boatman, had earlier confirmed that the cairn is regarded locally as the island summit.richtea504031/05/2014
Island HP looks to be 500m SE at grassed over cairn.chalky195326/05/2014
Trig visit: unaware of E summit at the timeRHW28/05/2010
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jimbloomer12/08/2022
mae01/08/2022
assynt_bob03/08/2019
Alan Whatley03/08/2019
Glenford03/08/2019
SteveG03/06/2019
AndyS18/07/2018
Nick Down101/09/2015
Sherlock30/05/2014
Landlady26/05/2014
Colin Crawford26/09/2012
Lionel Bidwell21/09/2012
Susan Bidwell21/09/2012
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