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| Name: | Staple Edge Hill |
| Hill number: | 17095 |
| Height: | 228m / 748ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2862 Ruardean Hill |
| RHB Section: | 38B: West Gloucestershire, Hereford & Worcester |
| County/UA: | Gloucestershire |
| Catchment: | Severn |
| Class: | Tump (200-299m), Clem (Tu,2,Cm) |
| Grid ref: | SO 64580 10379 |
| Summit feature: | no feature |
| Drop: | 61m |
| Col: | 167m SO633144  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 162 (1:25k) OL14E |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 37 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Recommend secateurs for the final ten metres. | Martin R | 28/05/2023 |
| Parked to SW, near entrance to Mallards Pike Lake. Forest tracks, then a very short push through young trees. | PGCE | 25/09/2022 |
| Parked in same spot to ESE as Gerry and followed ROW to the cottage near the summit. The new trees are 10-15 ft high now but still easy enough to squeeze through to the hp. Returned by a slightly different route to make a pleasant circuit. | milimana | 10/05/2021 |
| From New Fancy car park at SO627095. | Twice Brewed | 11/02/2021 |
| Parked at a convenient space at Bradley Hill (SO 65800 09863), crossed the road and followed the upward track. Turned right at the junction and continued on to Staple Edge cottage & just beyond. Summit just a few yards into the densely planted area off the main track. (Heard Wild Boar and saw lots of their tracks in here). | Gerry the Ranger | 29/11/2020 |
| Indistinct HP to W of track with many saplings. cycle trip. | Denise | 29/05/2020 |
| Hard to be sure of the high point in levelish area of young trees. We took a point close to a Sweet Chestnut in among Cypress(?) as the high point (SO 64581 10378). Young trees reasonably easy to 'push through' No view. | RichardM | 29/05/2020 |
| Up forest track from SO655101 | Tony J | 17/03/2019 |
| From the bend by Upper Soudley. Loads of boar tracks. I spoke to a guy in the village who says they are a nuisance and he claimed to have seen one between two parked card on his way home from the pub. There are now young trees compared with the photo but that stump is still there and is at the GR given. | clivevilla | 04/12/2018 |
| Blakeney to Littledean. Numerous windthrow obstacles across the lesser tracks hinder rapid progress. My Cudleigh Holes descent route was also slowed by deep churning caused by 'foresty operations'. | Smudge | 04/02/2018 |
| From Upper Soudley village hall, southwest on forest tracks, crossing the minor road, then north on the main track to a point just north east of the bungalows, then across to the track that runs closest to the summit, and just off of this to the highest point I could find, a mound close to a standing dead tree. | Mariana Trench | 07/01/2018 |
| Parked over the road from the Go Ape entrance where parking seems to be free and walked up the tracks from there through the lovely woods. Didn't see any boar but did see some deer. I wandered over to the given location but then wandering back seemed to pass higher points including that by the house. | Father Ted | 18/04/2017 |
| Numerous boar around. | Adrian | 24/09/2016 |
| Up forest track from busy minor road to SW of Upper Soudley. Beautiful mixed forest with a great deal of evidence of piggy presence (evidently becoming a real nuisance in F of D). HP 30 ms off track amongst recent fir tree planting. | Campbell Singer | 23/09/2016 |
| Parked on road verge just outside Soudley. Tracks all the way to the house and I then ventured into the clearing which I thought looked slightly higher. Sun shining for a change in an otherwise grim day. | Herbert Anchovy | 15/06/2016 |
| Walk up first tracks from the deeply included beautiful valley road to the north, though there is a house Staple Cottages on the summit so I expect it could be a drive up of one knew the right entrance, perhaps from further to the nw | vegibagger | 04/04/2016 |
| Woodland paths/tracks from visitors centre. | rhalstead | 26/04/2015 |
| Walk up on forest tracks to cleared area. | arranc | 08/03/2015 |
| Muddy pull-in for one car on minor road coming S from Cinderford at SO 65057 11221, then along forest tracks to summit. HP could be on track by 2 houses, but seemed to be a higher point in area of felled trees 80-100m N. | jonglew | 17/02/2015 |
| highest pt is tk adj house; woodland; pleasant ascent from E; may be poss (& pointless) to drive in via forest tks. fp from road junct to W (Upper Soudley) | RHW | 04/01/2003 |
| From Mallards Pike car park, along forest tracks. Can also be reached by Mountain Bike. | PeterD | 15/10/2002 |
| Exact date uncertain, but the hill was done around that period of time. | thenomad | 22/10/1983 |
| T&J | 15/10/2023 | |
| Barry Smith | 20/07/2023 | |
| mnixon | 02/06/2022 | |
| bladeblaster | 24/05/2020 | |
| Andy West | 27/03/2020 | |
| kasharic | 05/05/2018 | |
| andrew brown | 29/07/2017 | |
| Steve Q | 12/11/2016 | |
| Dusty | 03/10/2016 | |
| stevent0809 | 28/02/2015 | |
| jnixon | 12/03/2011 | |
| melly1 | 12/03/2011 | |
| BrianMatthews | 12/04/2006 | |
| fasgadh | 26/03/2005 | |
| iain15000 | blank |