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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
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 21 users)ByDate 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...Dazingdale28/10/2023
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 R31/05/2023
A nice long ramble from Froomes Hill. Saw an owl, a dead lamb and a quad bike.Play2End16/04/2023
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.vegibagger22/06/2022
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.PGCE25/08/2021
Delightful Easter Sunday walk from Bosbury under cloudless skies.milimana04/04/2021
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.M3WDD20/09/2020
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.RichardM19/12/2019
Parked at SO692469 in lane to Evesbatch and followed footpaths to Trig and summit. Top is by reservoir cover in centre of field.Ramblingpaul20/05/2019
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.Skip24/03/2019
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 Anchovy12/07/2017
From NNE. Chatted with a farmer on the way up the drive. He told me he was 91 and still working.clivevilla06/01/2017
From North Along track to farm.PeterD25/09/2016
10 Miles over the Malvern Hills and Beacon Hillmrcarllewis21/02/2016
Chatted with the farmer at the farm which is located at the top.Dusty07/03/2015
farmarranc20/08/2009
RHW07/09/2003
Adrian02/09/2020
andrew brown01/07/2018
stevent080927/01/2018