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Name: | Cocking Tor |
Hill number: | 16636 |
Height: | 317m / 1040ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2807 Kinder Scout |
RHB Section: | 36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines |
County/UA: | Derbyshire |
Catchment: | Trent |
Class: | Tump (300-399m) (Tu,3) |
Grid ref: | SK 34122 61942 |
Summit feature: | ground by wall near edge of copse |
Drop: | 39m |
Col: | 278m SK331625 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 119 (1:25k) OL24E 269 |
Observations: | boulder by tree 30m SSE at SK 34136 61914 may be as high |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 48 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
From Holestone Gate Road, verge parking opposite Old Engine Farm. ROW, then field boundaries and tractor tracks. | PGCE | 26/06/2023 |
First of 3 hills on a bike ride from track near Red House Farm. Have been passed / near the high point before on way to Turningstone Edge. | steveb2006 | 30/11/2022 |
3 of 4 on 22 mile bike ride starting in grassmoor country park. Into first copse then onto summit copse. Back into first one and sat for half an hour enjoying the quiet. Really nice spot | The-Z-Man | 02/09/2022 |
Parked by road junction to south with snow and road closure signs to make things interesting. Walked up road to FP near old engine farm, around copse and across field to HP in scrub near wall. | PeterD | 06/12/2021 |
From Holestone Gate Road which seems to be a busy rat-run. Small circuit using ROWs through woods to E which was worth it as had good views E which couldn't see from summit. Slightly hard going through overgrown field boundaries. HP rock pile to S of DSW. With Carla and littlies. | RoguePulsar | 31/07/2021 |
Lots of plants that get in the way of the path quite hard to tackle through them unusual top hard to find without a map went with Dad Mum and Dulcie. | speedyclimber | 31/07/2021 |
Started walk in Wookey by the reservoir. Can't recomend enough. Bluebell woods are stunning at this time of year and the views are excellent from clocking Tor. Nice couple of hour loop. | Nicky C | 26/05/2021 |
Part of group circular walk from Ashover on hot sunny day. HP on rough ground near trees and old wall line. | Denise | 12/07/2020 |
On Mon night run. Mist/dark/rain.With Steve. From Tansley. | davechaffey | 15/10/2019 |
Along field margins from footpath to SE. Summit has group of trees and scruffy area of rocks and brambles. High point seems to be on field side of crumbling stone wall. | RichardM | 30/04/2019 |
With Bev | simon and co | 17/04/2019 |
Sunny afternoon walk from Old Engine Farm. | Dugswell2 | 22/02/2019 |
Glorious calm xmas eve | vegibagger | 24/12/2018 |
Parking: Grass verge by start of p/f SK33866 61762. Easy walk to summit through copse and field edge. | David Evans | 13/01/2018 |
Roadside verge parking opposite Old Engine Farm. Field bdy to small copse then continued on to OS 317m spot height. HP in scrub on SE side of old stone wall. | jonglew | 28/12/2017 |
A foul wet November evening with night fast drawing in. Parking on the verge at the start of the footpath to the west. Follow the track into the woods NOT the legal line. Pass the private woods notice and follow the wood edge to the open pature, then the wall to the summit. 15 minutes return. | moorsman | 28/11/2017 |
A very nice walk from the west along a footpath to the first copse. Through this then along field edge to further copse. High point seems to be at the northern edge by overgrown broken wall. | Neil Haslewood | 24/07/2017 |
A circuit from Ashover, along the river to Fallgate, up through Milltown quarry, Overton Hall, then a foul wet footpath across fields to pick up the path to the chimney, the track past Ravens nest, back along the road, then the footpath to Cocking Tor, an undistinguished summit. Back through the woods, Overton Cottages to Centre Ville. Mainly runnable, except for the suicidally steep and slippery descent from Cocking Tor to the bridleway, and the nasty steep mudfest going back down to the Amber bridge. The woods are nice, and there are good views. Have done a similar circuit in the summer, and it is much drier and better. | Gill | 04/03/2017 |
Along fp from west through copse. Undistinguished summit on edge of field. | Campbell Singer | 02/10/2016 |
Shameful rubbish left at fp gate. | Barbara Singer | 02/10/2016 |
A five-tump circuit from Tansley: Ashover Hay - Cocking Tor - Matlock Moor - Oker Hill - Masson Hill - Matlock Bath - High Tor. Easy detour from the public footpath. | davidpettit84 | 26/09/2015 |
Third summit of four today, starting at Higham and then climbing Stretton Edge and Ashover Hay, taking fp over Ravensnest Tor. The fp goes through the grounds of a guy who now owns a Golden Eagle and he was training it as I walked past. Amazing sight! There are warnings on the banks saying that Adders are nesting there too. Lovely sense of height with the steep edge to the East although I was barked at by a Japanese Akita dog just after stepping over the fence to get a more interesting photo! Carried on with footpath and then headed up to Cocking Tor and then followed edge for about 100 metres before climbing over wall into field. Summit appears to be as shown, a few stones by a stone wall in an overgrown copse. I made my way through this as the vegetation was very high. There are high points and a boulder I came across but the original summit appeared higher. 
Headed Sw to gain corner of Beech tree copse and then onto Minor road heading NNW. | Dazingdale | 30/08/2015 |
Dusk on a warm summers evening. Scratched my bare leg tripping on rusty barbed wire hidden in the overgrown summit nettle / bramble mound and failing light. Not a great moment at the end of a long hot day. | Chris Pearson | 08/08/2015 |
Simple enough to get to from footpath. | Wheelsy | 14/05/2015 |
From west through copse. | ngthack | 15/02/2015 |
Short walk from W along deeply grooved track into first copse. Through this then along field edge to further copse. High point seems to be at edge of this by overgrown broken wall towards N end. | Aye Jimmy | 30/11/2014 |
Not much of a summit when approached from Matlock - clump of trees in a dry and dusty field - but from the other side, via the old quarries and mines, it is a much more enticing hill and well worth the effort. | DanHolme | 15/04/2014 |
rough ground at edge of arable field, heap of stone/ wall remains. f/p from W then field edge | RHW | 25/03/2006 |
Certainly lacks the drama of the edge and Ravensnest Tor was a nicer spot for a sit down. | Jake994 | 09/08/2005 |
Wycombe Wanderer | 15/10/2021 | |
milopodesta | 22/09/2021 | |
steve18566 | 23/04/2021 | |
Martin R | 10/09/2020 | |
Alan Caine | 07/09/2020 | |
johnkenyon | 20/06/2020 | |
DC11main | 07/07/2018 | |
carole engel | 28/12/2017 | |
Adrian | 18/10/2017 | |
andrew brown | 16/08/2017 | |
IainT | 16/12/2016 | |
Richard Gunn | 10/07/2016 | |
stevent0809 | 08/08/2015 | |
GordonAdshead | 13/09/2014 | |
Mark Sims | 21/02/2014 | |
andrew.allum | 01/01/2000 | |
Moorponder | 23/05/1993 | |
Nick Canute | blank | |
Mark Jackson | blank |