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| Name: | Wimblebury Hill |
| Hill number: | 17293 |
| Height: | 236m / 774ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2870 Walton Hill |
| RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
| County/UA: | Staffordshire |
| Catchment: | Trent |
| Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
| Grid ref: | SK 02510 11427 |
| Summit feature: | ground by stile |
| Drop: | 37m |
| Col: | 199m SK036129  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 128 (1:25k) 244 |
| Observations: | flat summit area |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 71 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Completed on a circular with Castle Ring, Hednesford Hills and Rawnsley Hills. Great, far-reaching views at the top. A little muddy at this time of year (but where isn't). | jessicahickman | 28/03/2024 |
| Loop of 6 hills, disappointingly bland! Hopefully the northern end of the Chase is prettier! Parked on Rugeley Road below Rawnsley Hill just after the last house. Rawnsley Hill, Stile Cop, Upper Cliff, Castle Ring, Wimblebury Hill, Hednesford Hills. 15km in 3 hrs. | Nicky C | 18/12/2023 |
| Bagged whilst out on a LDWA Staffs Group walk | dazedemon | 12/12/2023 |
| From road to east | ijpowell | 19/08/2023 |
| Stopping at Beaudesert, did a quick run from there. Was back in an hour which is good going given how unfit I currently am! | DanHolme | 28/05/2022 |
| 10am, 10 degrees, brightly overcast, cool NE breeze, clearing to cloudless, 15 degrees later. From west. | Wycombe Wanderer | 29/04/2022 |
| Followed PRoW from road to East | JK | 12/03/2022 |
| From Wimblebury Road. | Wheelsy | 22/02/2022 |
| From Wimblebury | johnkenyon | 19/11/2021 |
| A large area of planned coalfield farmland- reclaimed from the former Wimblebury Colliery - once one of the many pits of the Cannock Coalfields. If its seems a long walk to see not very much -pity the tough grimy lives of miners who once worked underground here and their coal-dust coated lungs - who were even charged 5d a week for using the pithead baths when they re-surfaced each day. Marginal improvements in the 1940's included an above surface training centre for boys aged 15 who were not allowed underground until 16 and the formation of a mines rescue team -who relied on their famous canaries for detecting Carbon Monoxide. A canary heartbeat is one-hundred times faster than a human and any sign of CO could be detected before a human. Normally they would stop singing or start acting in a peculiar fashion. When this happened the rescue team would make a hasty retreat. | Chris Pearson | 19/11/2021 |
| Walked up from Wimblebury with Georgia. I went out deliberately to bag the hill because I live so close. The path wasn't very muddy going up. I was happy I got out because the views are pretty cool. I could see the Castle Ring and Hednesford hills top and lovely views over the chase. Well worth a trip up there if you are local | davert123 | 17/10/2021 |
| A slightly bleak spot on a grey snowy day but good to be out. HP on hedge embankment at fence/ gateway intersection on RoW. Continued NE and eventually back to Hazelslade nature reserve | Denise | 31/01/2021 |
| ROW from east. | PGCE | 26/12/2020 |
| Parked SK 0335 1147. RoW all the way to an indetermined summit on the track... somewhere. | jonglew | 17/08/2020 |
| Circuit starting at Castle Ring taking in Stile Cop, Upper Cliff, Rawnsley and Hednesford Hills and Wimblebury Hill. Easy footpath across arable land. | milimana | 03/08/2020 |
| Cannock to Hednesford. | Smudge | 23/02/2020 |
| Walked from Hednesford Hills, down Wimblebury Rd/John St and across on the FP. Bit muddy. | Andrew Pearson | 10/01/2020 |
| Parked in side road and walked in from Prospect Village. Pleasant walk with good views. | JohnW | 05/01/2020 |
| From Comm centre parking, easy walk up road & path along field edge to top, back same way, cool & dry, some good views. | apricorum | 31/12/2019 |
| Because I was nearby. From SK 0155 1099. | summitsup | 18/12/2019 |
| From west along FP, HP near tree, also went to NE to make sure. | PeterD | 23/09/2019 |
| Hednesford Hill from pub C.P. on Littleworth road Wimblebury. Then walked down Wimblebury road to public footpath and up to Wimblebury Hill. | mart0797 | 27/12/2018 |
| 5th hill of 8 on a 26.9km route from Rugeley to Hednesford station, climbing Stile Cop, Upper Cliff, Rawnsley Hills and Castle Ring, descending SW via overgrown tracks to Holly Hill road then fp to Cumberledge Hill, taking Ironstone road then briefly on Cannock Wood road before following fp up to copse and where it turns SW I recorded 236m beside a Sycamore tree, beside an anchorage point for the BW fence. There is a 235m contour in this area. Continued on fp to recognised summit area, recording 236m beside dead tree @ SK 02509 11433 on the boundary, 236m @ SK 02510 11434m 235 @ SK 02511 11430and 235m beside Hawthorn @ SK 02503 11425 and out in the open field there is a subtle rise, recording 235 @ SK 02513 11418. Continued on fp Wsw, stopping en-route for food then along John Street, heading for Hednesford Hills... | Dazingdale | 25/11/2018 |
| From WSW. 20 minutes there and back. Pleasant enough. | clivevilla | 20/10/2018 |
| Hednesford - Littleton Colliery - Badger's Hills - Rawnsley Hills - Upper Cliff - Stile Cop - Castle Ring - Wimblebury Hill - Hednesford Hills - Hednesford. | Mark Jackson | 22/09/2018 |
| Walked over from Hednesford Hills. If you use ROW at SK 01625 11557 you can then short cut on well used path to ROW to the S. With Tol, Dulcie and Felix. 62m ascent | RoguePulsar | 15/09/2018 |
| We walked from Hednesford hills. With family. | speedyclimber | 15/09/2018 |
| Circuit of the SE Cannock Chase hills - Stile Cop, Upper Cliff, Rawnsley Hills, Hednesford Hills, Wimblebury Hill and Castle Ring. Start / finish at Stile Cop car park. (Free - Forestry Commission). | BobHancock | 18/09/2017 |
| Stile Cop - Upper Cliffe - Rawnsley Hills - Wimblebury Hill - Badger's Hills - Littleton Colliery. 12mile linear route. Climbed along the RoW from the west. Observed 3 Roe deer in the wheat fields alongside. | Moorponder | 24/07/2017 |
| From Wimblebury. Nice open country. | Herbert Anchovy | 06/04/2017 |
| From Castle Ring via prospect village. Legs feeling it a bit now. Followed footpath which easily led to top which has a really grand view. Probably betters that of any of the other Cannock area trumps. Continued over and onto the Wimblebury road. Next stop Stock car Hill. | stig_nest | 13/03/2017 |
| Parking: Ironstone Road SK 03380 11438. Public footpath all the way to the summit. | David Evans | 04/03/2017 |
| Parked in side street of Prospect village then followed a dampish footpath to the summit in stile. | Dugswell2 | 01/03/2017 |
| As for Aye Jimmy. | arranc | 04/02/2017 |
| From Prospect village, parking easier than Wimblebury side. Tracks along field edges to gap with adjacent stile at top. | Aye Jimmy | 09/10/2016 |
| From Brickworks Rd over the hill in the woods then along footpath to the top. | chrisbien | 06/10/2016 |
| From Wimblebury. Good footpath. Despite lacking height, superb vantage point. | Campbell Singer | 11/07/2016 |
| From Prospect village and followed footpath marked Wimblebury. | Ramblingpaul | 09/03/2016 |
| Path crosses farmland hill top. Fine views in lowering sun. Yellow Hammers in bushes. High point probably at hedge junction but gently domed field top to SW of similar height. And again on:- 31-01-2021 with Denise, ground at hedge junction higher than field to WSW (Abney) | RichardM | 07/03/2016 |
| From Prospect Village. Pleasant walk. | ngthack | 02/12/2015 |
| Footpath from W | RobertP | 15/11/2015 |
| From Wimblebury - easy path in miserable early morning rain | Bramley | 13/11/2015 |
| With Cabe, nice straight path from Wimblebury Mound. | simon and co | 07/11/2015 |
| Close to field edge | Adrian | 10/05/2015 |
| Followed the path to the top of here while geocaching in the area. | Alancache | 15/01/2015 |
| From NE, easy stroll in the drizzly darkness. Supposed to be an OS trig (buried block) near summit but I wouldn't expect to find it even in daylight. | RHW | 21/03/2014 |
| Parked on Claygate Road. Route was very muddy making the going harder than it should have been. | muzza2 | 10/03/2014 |
| From Prospect Village, muddy path along field edges. | rhalstead | 27/12/2013 |
| malcorbett | 12/05/2023 | |
| Halfdecent | 11/05/2023 |