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| Name: | Burrough Hill |
| Hill number: | 17321 |
| Height: | 210m / 689ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2869 Cleeve Hill |
| RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
| County/UA: | Leicestershire |
| Catchment: | Trent |
| Class: | Tump (200-299m), Clem (Tu,2,Cm) |
| Grid ref: | SK761118 (est) |
| Drop: | 31m |
| Col: | 179m SK791101  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 129 (1:25k) 246 |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 74 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Nice hill, still £2.50 to park. | Alan Caine | 03/01/2024 |
| 1st time to the summit, comedy ride around the escarpment on a road bike | visionset | 09/07/2023 |
| 3rd hill of 12 for the day. Paid my £2.50 at the car park and walked to the trig on the very impressive ramparts. Also visited the toposcope further to the W with its views straight down the western slope. | Mark Jackson | 04/02/2023 |
| Used the usual car park to the SE. Pleasant 2 hour circular walk taking in the trig point, ramparts and viewpoint before picking up part of the Leicestershire Round. Very wet and muddy underfoot. With Gillian, E & A. | richard69 | 15/01/2023 |
| Bagged as part of an LWDA Group Walk | dazedemon | 18/09/2022 |
| Solo on way to Cambridge conference | simon and co | 04/09/2022 |
| From the CP | robertphillips | 09/04/2022 |
| From the NT car park. £2.50 for a ten minute walk but an impressive hill fort. | clivevilla | 01/02/2022 |
| Easy to reach trig. Good condition in a lovely quiet country park. Trig is placed on what was once a hill fort. | SueJ | 03/04/2021 |
| Picked the wrong day to visit Burrough hill, visibility very poor, Misty cold day... carried on walking through the Dalby woods, and onto Somerby, and back to the car at the hill carpark.. will definitely visit Burrough hill again on a better day. I wouldn’t bother with the woods or surrounding area until the ground has had chance to dry out, which won’t be any time soon | Filbertfox | 28/12/2020 |
| Parked at the car park and walked around the ramparts. Nice views. | PGCE | 06/12/2020 |
| From NT carpark. Impressive earthworks. | rhalstead | 04/10/2020 |
| Assumed trig was HP, certainly seems to be the highest point now. Wandered across to the topograph, but clearly lower. | jonglew | 23/08/2020 |
| Cycling round of 4 hills from Nottingham, 115km, nether hall, life hill, Burrough hill and gartree hill. | Nicky C | 24/05/2020 |
| As part of 5 mile circular walk from Somerby. | KevPalmer | 30/10/2019 |
| Easy stroll to trig and various high points round hill fort. | Bramley | 13/04/2019 |
| On Leicestershire Round | raymondwilkes | 20/10/2018 |
| Car pack empty and no coin machine. Easy ascent to hill fort. Young calves in hill fort area. Trig on HP. Also tried to ascertain where natural HP may have been. | PeterD | 16/08/2018 |
| Cooling down a bit. Great view. Tried to imagine what it would've been like living in the Iron Age. | Wycombe Wanderer | 17/07/2018 |
| as for thejackrustles | arranc | 12/07/2018 |
| 5.6 mile walk from dead-end road near airfield, walked south along Sandy Lane to very dull churned up summit of Gartree Hill and then along obvious lane south to Burrough Hill (2nd time bagged), walked around nice fortifications on summit, good views went to trig and pointless toposcope, then descended west to Melton Lane and followed Moscow Lane then back onto outward route to car, Overcast. Later that day bagged Whatborough Hill, Colborough Hill and Langton Caudle later that day. | DanTrig | 23/03/2018 |
| Parked in Little Dalby and followed footpath up past Little Dalby Hall onto the Jubilee Way. The hill fort is one of the most impressive I've seen. | Wheelsy | 21/03/2018 |
| With my dad. | TLBW | 21/03/2018 |
| Burrough Hill Country Park carpark at SK 765 113, cost £2.50 all day. Muddy lane leads past farm to hill which is access land. Very impressive hill fort ringed by flowering gorse. Focal points are the trig column and a stone pedestal for a toposcope (which has been removed or stolen). Great views. With Sonja on a cold breezy overcast day. | Skip | 04/02/2018 |
| 4/7 (South Hill/Wellsborough Hill/Life Hill/Burrough Hill/Hambleton Hill/Buckminster Hill/Breedon Hill) | Fergalh | 13/12/2017 |
| From the car park, no charges in force today. Followed rim of fort past topo and across fort back to trig. | Aye Jimmy | 10/05/2017 |
| Langham to Burton Lazars. | Smudge | 01/04/2017 |
| Parked in the country parks car park and hopped over the gate. Straight path up to trig | thejackrustles | 29/10/2016 |
| Interesting spot. A YSM and a cache as well. Fine and sunny when we were here. | Walker Dan | 25/02/2016 |
| Impressive hill fort. Found a brand new bobble hat by the trig, which was great, because I lost one last week. | ngthack | 14/02/2016 |
| G | Idris | 02/01/2016 |
| Dedicated parking at a cost of £2.50 plus also the luxury of public toilets. I noted lots of signage stating the area has a crime issue so ensured everything was safely tucked out of view. Easy walk up the track then past an information board on to open access land. Great views to be had of the surrounding area and enjoyed watching a couple of radio controlled plane enthusiasts show off their flying skills. | timday | 17/09/2015 |
| Interesting hill fort, so did not mind paying £2.50 to park | GordonAdshead | 16/07/2015 |
| 4th hill of Five today on a route from Oakham to Melton Mowbray, having climbed Cold Overton park,Ranksborough hill, Cold Overton hill, i took Somerby road to Somerby using fp for last 1/4 mile. Stopped for coffee and cake at the pub where there is a nice old cat (got a great shot of it!)Continued on Burrough road, following fp to hillfort. Our family visited this place quite a few times and we used to fly kites here. Visited trig and mound to west of trig.This is a beautiful hill fort with gorse in flower brightening up the undulating slopes surrounding it. Descent,N to pick up bridleway leading to Melton Mowbray. | Dazingdale | 02/04/2015 |
| Didn't expect to find a great hill fort like this in Leicestershire ! | Mark Sims | 18/02/2015 |
| Hill fort, trig on HP but highest natural highpoint inside the fort. | Adrian | 16/08/2014 |
| on Leicestershire round segment from Frisby to Somerby. | gbeniston | 03/05/2014 |
| A recreation diversion on the journey home from the flatlands. | summitsup | 05/10/2013 |
| Nice little hill. | DanTrig | 24/09/2011 |
| Extraordinary, impressive earth walls of a hill fort make this a Tump to remember! Visited during my grand tour of Britain in 2005. | DanHolme | 29/01/2005 |
| KC On circular from Great Dalby. Great View. Fantastic site on rim of ancient hill top fort. There is a toposcope on the opposite side of the fort. This is a country park with convenient nearby parking and WC. Both pubs in nearby Somerby feature in the Good Pub Guide at the time of visit and one has a brewery. The PO Shop in Somerby is handy too. | crazy | 25/10/2003 |
| fine hill fort & ridge/furrow, fine Rutland view. car pk 766114 | RHW | 11/11/2001 |
| The first of many ascents, having taken part in an orienteering event on the hill. Repeated many times. | JohnW | 24/04/1996 |
| Halfdecent | 27/10/2023 | |
| daveydubs81 | 04/01/2023 | |
| Matt | 26/08/2022 | |
| Alex C | 21/05/2022 | |
| mae | 11/02/2022 | |
| Martin R | 05/02/2022 | |
| Catredgym | 19/01/2022 |