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Name: | The Smatcher |
Hill number: | 14981 |
Height: | 427m / 1401ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2184 Gwaunceste Hill |
RHB Section: | 31B: Welshpool to Hay-on-Wye |
County/UA: | Powys |
Catchment: | Wye |
Class: | Tump (400-499m) (Tu,4) |
Grid ref: | SO 21384 59875 |
Summit feature: | no feature |
Drop: | 62m |
Col: | 365m SO206593 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 148 (1:25k) 201S |
Observations: | trig point 30m E at SO 21413 59872 is lower |
Survey: | obvious summit |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 28 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
From New Radnor ( parking outside old pub). Mainly RoW. Lovely sunny frost morning. Domed sheep pasture, no feature but near trig. Continuing to Castle Hill. | Denise | 01/12/2023 |
From the N on tracks zig zagging up through Snatcher Wood and out onto fields of sheep pasture. Several BWF’s to cross but no stiles. Undulating cultivated sheep pasture summit. High point marked by a few tiny pieces of rock. Cloudless skies, bright sunshine, hint of a NE breeze. Frosted ground. Fine views. Trig pillar on lower ground. | RichardM | 01/12/2023 |
Parked in the car park by the school in New Radnor, as it was the school holidays. Knowle Hill, Whimble, Bache Hill, Black Mixen, Great Rhos, Nyth-grug, Mynd and The Smatcher (no sign of the fp approaching from the W, so followed the fence boundary and cut up to the trig). Warm but overcast with a breeze on top. With Gillian | richard69 | 07/08/2023 |
asbown | 24/05/2023 | |
Parked in the forestry car park. Up through fields adjacent to wood. | Campbell Singer | 15/04/2023 |
Rob Rees | 26/02/2023 | |
olddustyrunner | 03/07/2022 | |
Calm gentle day trig pillar S7729 just off summit | vegibagger | 13/10/2020 |
Several bits of high ground a few steps from the TP. From SO 2192 5991 (now good P here). Surprisingly, the 4th to visit to date in 2019. | summitsup | 11/03/2019 |
Parked in New Radnor and walked up the steep lane from there before talking the footpath due east of the hill. | Father Ted | 05/03/2019 |
From Smatcher Cottage to the E. Superb viewpoint, especially to the E. | DanMaisieBex | 22/02/2019 |
TK | 11/02/2019 | |
Up lane and across fields from New Radnor. | rhalstead | 10/02/2018 |
A fine circuit with 5 trigs, on a perfect sunny day. Beginning to be converted to TuMPing by Alex and co, and regaining proficiency in climbing barbed wire fences. From New Radnor, over the superb Whimble, Bache Hill, direct to Black Mixen (noooo - follow the track), edge of forest and peaty tracks to Great Rhos, then seduced away from the indistinct correct line to the forestry by Nuttall baggers track, but correct line regained off piste. Through forest, then up to Nyth Grug, Mynd, Black Brook track to A44, direttissima towards Molecatchers Wood, Castle Hill, and The Smatcher. | Gill | 26/03/2017 |
Alex C | 26/03/2017 | |
Dusty | 24/03/2017 | |
Drove up the very steep and rough road from the A44 to park at 219599 then walked south to the path west which leads to the trig. The summit is a few yards WNW of the trig. | clivevilla | 27/02/2016 |
MM | 16/12/2015 | |
7/9 Seventh of Nine on very Wet misty day (Aberedw Hill/Aberedw Hill/Aberedw Hill North Top/The Van/Bryn-Y-Maen/Cefn Perfa/The Smatcher/Bailey Hill/Pen Y Clawdd Hill) | Fergalh | 13/12/2015 |
TREBORK | 19/07/2015 | |
iaindbrown | 01/04/2015 | |
SO2138659874 | Anton | 05/10/2013 |
From Old Station camp site to visit the trig pillar. Minor road to Smatcher Cottage then farm track. | jonglew | 13/07/2013 |
Up from A44 on a steep narrow lane to Smatcher Cottage. Bridal path sign pointed up on the crest of the ridge, through a gate and up to column 7729 at 13.15. New Radnor below. | arranc | 30/08/2012 |
Had to do this one after the main Radnor three because of its name and to bag the trig. | DanTrig | 04/06/2011 |
pasture summit, nice view. park rdside 219594, N along rd then W along FP | RHW | 07/08/2004 |
andrew.allum | 01/01/2000 | |
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