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Name: | Beacon Hill |
Hill number: | 17180 |
Height: | 168m / 551ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2867 Hegdon Hill |
RHB Section: | 38B: West Gloucestershire, Hereford & Worcester |
County/UA: | Herefordshire |
Catchment: | Severn |
Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
Grid ref: | SO 70310 46309 |
Summit feature: | concrete cover of reservoir in centre of field |
Drop: | 33m |
Col: | 135m SO706473 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 149 (1:25k) 190 |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 21 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
1st of 10 hills on a 31.76km loop from Pixiefields to Ledbury. Parked up in Ledbury then took the 417 bus to alight at Pixiefields then taking footpath west to arrive next to property where 3 dogs suddenly rushed out; after letting them sniff me they retreated and I was able to access field with the concrete reservoir to reach the top. Onwwards to Pimple Hill... | Dazingdale | 28/10/2023 |
Recommend pipe insulation. 
Farmer may be friendly, but the path isn't where it switches from the west side to the east side of the hedgerow at SO70142 46738. | Martin R | 31/05/2023 |
A nice long ramble from Froomes Hill. Saw an owl, a dead lamb and a quad bike. | Play2End | 16/04/2023 |
Drive up private drive to farm from the north. Farmer there to greet me having hard my car arrive. Very friendly. Apparently third person that year arriving to inspect pillar S7884. Gave me directions of best way to get there. Did some gardening to get good picture of the top. 
Hill summit in field here too. | vegibagger | 22/06/2022 |
Parked on verge at entrance to Cradley Hall Farm. Followed (sort of) ROW: no stile at first fence, stile in hedge corner at second fence. Visited trig and summit. Long chat with friendly farmer. | PGCE | 25/08/2021 |
Delightful Easter Sunday walk from Bosbury under cloudless skies. | milimana | 04/04/2021 |
It seems strange that the the OS put the text 'Beacon Hill' so far from the hill top. I wonder if the beacon site was on the, now wooded, spur about 1km to the SW of the trig point. I did a round walk through the woods to the SW of the summity and then west to the Leadon Valley. Well worth the detour. | M3WDD | 20/09/2020 |
HP is by small concrete- topped reservoir in grass field, but trig is in adjacent field hawthorn hedge,west facing, apparently 1 m lower. Wet and muddy. | Denise | 19/12/2019 |
Muddy bridleway from Fromes Hill on mistletoe collecting expedition. High point has small covered reservoir in levelish field of cultivated pasture overlooked by farm. Overcast, raining. | RichardM | 19/12/2019 |
Parked at SO692469 in lane to Evesbatch and followed footpaths to Trig and summit. Top is by reservoir cover in centre of field. | Ramblingpaul | 20/05/2019 |
Yet another Beacon Hill bagged, this time in a hit-and-run on the way home from the Malverns. Drove up the farm road and chatted to the friendly farmer. The summit is beside the reservoir but the trig is in the hedge. | Skip | 24/03/2019 |
Up the concrete track and then into field where top was by a small reservoir. Initially puzzled by the lack of trig but found it lurking in the hedge. Met clivevilla's old chap who was out walking his equally aged dog. | Herbert Anchovy | 12/07/2017 |
From NNE. Chatted with a farmer on the way up the drive. He told me he was 91 and still working. | clivevilla | 06/01/2017 |
From North Along track to farm. | PeterD | 25/09/2016 |
10 Miles over the Malvern Hills and Beacon Hill | mrcarllewis | 21/02/2016 |
Chatted with the farmer at the farm which is located at the top. | Dusty | 07/03/2015 |
farm | arranc | 20/08/2009 |
RHW | 07/09/2003 | |
Adrian | 02/09/2020 | |
andrew brown | 01/07/2018 | |
stevent0809 | 27/01/2018 |