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Name: | Backbury Hill |
Hill number: | 17096 |
Height: | 225m / 738ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2866 Seager Hill |
RHB Section: | 38B: West Gloucestershire, Hereford & Worcester |
County/UA: | Herefordshire |
Catchment: | Wye |
Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
Grid ref: | SO 58644 38788 |
Summit feature: | no feature: ground on hill fort |
Drop: | 62m |
Col: | 163m SO595396 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 149 (1:25k) 189 |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 29 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
From the Cockshoot cp. Good path all the way. Unusual rock formation at the top. Could be an old quarry. | Campbell Singer | 10/08/2023 |
Ignore alarmist 'sudden drop' signs. If you happen to be blind you wouldn't see the signs anyway. | Martin R | 26/01/2023 |
From Cockshoot car park. Old wooden gate has been replaced by a metal one, with wire on top. A bit pointless really, as there is no fence to its right, so easy to walk around it. Also visited trig. | PGCE | 17/07/2022 |
A pleasant circular over Haugh Wood then Backbury Hill from P @ SO 5986 3856. | summitsup | 10/12/2021 |
Loop from Prior's Frome by bike. Dryish underfoot so able to get up to the near the trig. After that visit, a good path past a relic of unhappier times, a gate covered in barbed wire standing across the path and now easily bypassed to the hill fort. Vegetation no bother when walking the ramparts. On to Haugh Wood | fasgadh | 20/11/2021 |
Bike ride and walks in a circuit from Hereford: Dinedor Camp, Aconbury Hill, Fownhope Park, Haugh Wood, Seager Hill S Top - Seager Hill, Canwood Knoll, Little Hill, Backbury Hill. | Mark Jackson | 10/10/2020 |
Circular cycle around 5 Tumps from Putley Riding School. From A438 to N, via Perton, Wootton, lane and tracks to usual ascent route. Cycled to within 100m of summit. Onward to Haugh Wood via forest tracks. | Minto | 05/08/2018 |
Like others, from the carpark to the SE and easy walk up the bridleway. Visited the trig first and then on to the hill fort with interesting old quarried limestone outcrop on its east side. | milimana | 16/06/2018 |
From the viewpoint car park at Cockshoot. Short stretch of path, briefly back onto the road and then a path left towards the hillfort. Took a diversion left on the way up to pass by the trig. Possibly some sort of ancient quarry next to the hillfort. Obvious hp. | Herbert Anchovy | 10/05/2017 |
From car park to sw for viewpoint. | clivevilla | 29/03/2017 |
Out and back from Cockshoot parking | rhalstead | 11/03/2017 |
From dirt car park at Cockshoot; trig pillar first. IA hill fort with some impressive rock slabs on S and SE side. HP SSW side. | jonglew | 26/02/2017 |
Easy access in woodland, impressive circular mounds and ditches of hill fort | RichardM | 28/01/2017 |
HP is part of tree covered embankment of ancient fortification, a little way east of the lower Trig- until I started doing tumps I never knew there were so many and such well preserved ancient fortifications! | Denise | 28/01/2017 |
From sw. HP near s end of hillfort earthworks. Last of the day. Decent day after damp start. | RHW | 31/01/2016 |
As for Peter D | arranc | 08/12/2015 |
From car park, up FP and then Bridleway which goes all the wat to top with a tree on HP which is easy to find. No views from top. | PeterD | 21/11/2015 |
Solo walk from Dormington. Great views of Sugarloaf and neighbouring hillforts of Aconbury and Dinedor from the slopes. Summit overgrown so no views, but the hillfort to the east is wonderful, a hidden gem. | thesweetcheat | 12/04/2014 |
phillo | 16/08/2020 | |
Tony J | 03/06/2020 | |
Andy West | 12/01/2020 | |
andrew brown | 03/02/2018 | |
Alan Caine | 26/01/2018 | |
Adrian | 07/11/2017 | |
stevent0809 | 07/06/2015 | |
Dusty | 18/04/2014 | |
melly1 | 05/04/2014 | |
jnixon | 05/04/2014 | |
BrianMatthews | 29/09/2004 |