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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 |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 33 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
Ferry then e-bike, SIB and both trigs | tim747 | 16/08/2022 |
Dreich but dry morning on Shapinsay. Two Trigs plus island TuMP summit. Nice beach on NW point | vegibagger | 13/08/2022 |
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. | Dugswell2 | 12/08/2022 |
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. | Minto | 11/08/2022 |
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. | RichardM | 05/08/2022 |
Parking at a disused Courthall farm, grassy track to trig pillar and an indetermined summit. Popped up onto the covered reservoir to be sure. | jonglew | 01/08/2022 |
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. | NormanW | 31/07/2022 |
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 Crawford | 30/07/2022 |
Day trip. A nice walk around, taking in the top. With B and R. | jenx | 29/07/2022 |
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. | Thearlaichdubh | 03/08/2019 |
From the ferry pier. Visited both candidate high points - incl. man made covered reservoir. | summitsup | 06/05/2018 |
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. | RHW | 02/06/2014 |
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. | richtea5040 | 31/05/2014 |
Island HP looks to be 500m SE at grassed over cairn. | chalky1953 | 26/05/2014 |
Trig visit: unaware of E summit at the time | RHW | 28/05/2010 |
1976 | oatcake | blank |
jimbloomer | 12/08/2022 | |
mae | 01/08/2022 | |
assynt_bob | 03/08/2019 | |
Alan Whatley | 03/08/2019 | |
Glenford | 03/08/2019 | |
SteveG | 03/06/2019 | |
AndyS | 18/07/2018 | |
Nick Down1 | 01/09/2015 | |
Sherlock | 30/05/2014 | |
Landlady | 26/05/2014 | |
Colin Crawford | 26/09/2012 | |
Lionel Bidwell | 21/09/2012 | |
Susan Bidwell | 21/09/2012 | |
iaindbrown | 08/09/2012 | |
bjewing | 01/07/2004 | |
Margaret | blank |