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Name: | Beckley Hill |
Hill number: | 17396 |
Height: | 141m / 463ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2874 Wendover Woods [Haddington Hill] |
RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
County/UA: | Oxfordshire |
Catchment: | Thames |
Class: | Tump (100-199m), Clem (Tu,1,Cm) |
Grid ref: | SP 56218 10597 |
Summit feature: | no feature: ground S of hedge W of wood |
Drop: | 46m |
Col: | 95m SP582069 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 164 (1:25k) 180E |
Observations: | flat summit area |
Survey: | Abney level |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 46 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
From New Inn lane along PROW. Then up the reasonable open wood. | cjo | 18/12/2023 |
8th Tump of the day. From the E. 1 bwf to cross in order to leave the bridleway. | Mark Jackson | 12/11/2022 |
Parked in the village at the start of Sand Lane, across New Inn Road, and through wood. The S side of hedge (pasture) is clearly higher than the N side but whether higher than the 141m spot height difficult to say. Winter wheat only recently sown so was unable to check. | milimana | 02/11/2020 |
ROW then through woods. | PGCE | 22/06/2020 |
Bridleway from New Inn Road then wood edge and south side of hedge. | KC | 11/06/2020 |
Nice 29km loop from Bernwood Forest. | atreides7887 | 07/06/2020 |
From the E up a driveway to a scruffy horsey establishment then across to HP. GOML'd on the way back. | clivevilla | 29/05/2020 |
on ROW from NE | Mark Sims | 17/02/2020 |
Short detour on run from Bicester to Headington via Otmoor. Not much to see; the way up from Otmoor to Beckley via Sand Lane and Otmoor Lane is nice though. | aucuparia | 03/02/2020 |
Bagged from jct of Sandpath/New Inn Rd, through woodland S of fence to avoid barbed wire fence. The hill looks like a hill and has great views, but they are from the village or Common Rd. The HP is deadly dull so have a stroll down Church St for the view over wild Ot Moor. | pwheeler | 11/11/2019 |
3rd hill of 6 today and the 3rd hill of a 4 tump, 18.3km traverse from New Headington to Islip station, climbing Shotover Hill and Red Hill, the on fp past Forest Hill village onto lane, bypassing Stanton St. John then N on Salt lane, using verge of wood to access theoretical high point, recording 140m @ SP 56205 10598. The crops looked just as high if not higher so I explored the land there too, recording 140m @ SP 56234 10640, near the 141m spot height. I made my way back to the verge to continue on the verge parallell to New Inn road then turned West beside Common road, climbing over a fence to get onto the actual road, then following the Oxford Greenbelt Way en-route to Woodeaton Hill... | Dazingdale | 07/07/2019 |
From the E using same approach as DD. | Aye Jimmy | 23/03/2019 |
Parked at junction between New Inn Road & Sandy Lane. Followed fp running SSW to woods, then through woods to summit at field edge to south of hedge. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 10/03/2019 |
Headington to Oxford Parkway. | Smudge | 18/11/2018 |
Approaching from the RoW to the East, it's a short walk through golden beech woods to the indistinct Hp at the hedgeline. The OS SH is to the N of the hedge but the field to the S was 0.5m higher. Fields either side planted with new crops. | Denise | 09/11/2018 |
From the E through beech woods to expansive levellish hill top. Ground on S side of hedge is higher than the N side by ~0.5m. | RichardM | 08/11/2018 |
Just gone sunset. In the field next to the wood. | vegibagger | 22/10/2018 |
From west. Over fence, around field edge and into field. | Herbert Anchovy | 09/04/2018 |
Train from London. Walk from Islip Station using Oxfordshire Way. Growing crop in field so stuck to edges. | trimarc2 | 09/04/2017 |
Out and back from Beckley village hall. | rhalstead | 28/02/2017 |
Along fp from south, past wood and over bwf and along field edge. Gap in hedge to access marginally higher field to west. Dead sheep at summit. Looked ready to burst! | Campbell Singer | 26/02/2017 |
A rare moment of drama happened here in 2010 when the top of the nearby tall Beckley transmitter caught fire and daytime tv was lost (no great loss some would say?). Reports don't say how the fire brigade dealt with this interesting challenge. (just let it burn out I guess) At the N foot of the hill lies the unusual OT Moor wetlands - an incongruous combination of a SSSI wetland and an MOD firing range.Important enough for the M40 to swerve around it. | Chris Pearson | 17/02/2017 |
as per PeterD. Small gate from road and headlands around to HP. | arranc | 16/08/2016 |
Around field edge to HP. | PeterD | 27/05/2016 |
Easy access to the wood from the PROW, don't know if this is private or not. Summit is at the far side of the wood, could be anywhere round there. | Swindon Bagger | 16/01/2016 |
Difficult to be certain of highest point with Abney | Galltywenallt | 27/09/2015 |
Possibly the world's most boring hill. Summit area also contender for stoniest field with a crop in it. | ngthack | 01/09/2015 |
Circular walk from Beckley Church to Horton-cum-Studley. Picked this up on the return. From Sand Land, field boundary then into young barley crop for HP. | jonglew | 21/06/2015 |
Parking on verge on Newton Lane to north. Along enclosed path south then fairly easy access through edge of wood to summit. Dull. | Hillsidenick | 23/01/2014 |
sunny day, field edge. | Adrian | 11/01/2014 |
arable field, no view, no difficulties (in Dec). cross filed from rd/fp jct | RHW | 15/12/2001 |
johnkenyon | 08/10/2023 | |
Minto | 12/08/2023 | |
SteveG | 11/08/2023 | |
Martin R | 05/10/2022 | |
davefh | 13/03/2022 | |
Matt | 02/10/2021 | |
Wycombe Wanderer | 24/12/2018 | |
GordonAdshead | 26/05/2018 | |
DC11main | 27/05/2016 | |
andrew brown | 13/04/2016 | |
stevent0809 | 01/01/2015 | |
Jacqdaw | 23/01/2014 | |
mill_train | 23/05/2007 | |
BrianMatthews | 07/12/2005 | |
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