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Name: | Casthorpe Hills |
Hill number: | 17422 |
Height: | 117m / 384ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2869 Cleeve Hill |
RHB Section: | 37: The River Tees to The Wash |
County/UA: | Lincolnshire |
Catchment: | Wash |
Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
Grid ref: | SK 87247 35080 |
Summit feature: | no feature: field margin on N side of hedge |
Drop: | 50m |
Col: | 67m SK889339 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 130 (1:25k) 247 |
Observations: | high point on crest of approach path at SK 87193 35249 is lower (confirmed by LIDAR) |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
N.B. Some hill summits are on private property or on land where there is no public right of way. Permission should be sought from the landowner where access to a hill summit is through private land.
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 33 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
From Barrowby returning along canal. | TK | 07/12/2023 |
One way ride down the Canal with a lift home | visionset | 16/09/2023 |
From Westry Corner following ROW, then squeezing through the hedge at a gap next to a small tree. | Mark Jackson | 18/07/2023 |
Good parking on the apron just west of Casthorpe Lodge. Easy to follow path all the way up the hill until the field north of the summit. Find a weakness in the hedge and then a crossfield walk to the top. | moorsman | 02/07/2023 |
parked at start of ROW close to Casthorpe Lodge. Circumnavigated the lorry which had got stuck in the mud then up steps and around the field edges and back to the lorry churning up more of the ground | grumpy | 26/01/2023 |
Easy parking at Westry Corner. ROW, then field boundary. | PGCE | 15/08/2022 |
From Westry Corner on a red hot midsummer's day. | Mark Sims | 21/06/2022 |
Woolsthorpe by Belvoir to Grantham. Diversion from bottom of steps as per others. ROW SE from Westry Corner does run to pt 66m (A1/A607 junction), but more directly than mapped. | Smudge | 19/11/2021 |
Although already trapped by a closed gate at Summerfield's Hill I ignored the warning signs and parked by the sports pavilion. | Martin R | 20/10/2021 |
Stopped off to bag this one on way back from Peterborough to Nottingham | dazedemon | 03/08/2020 |
3rd and final tump of the day, after Normanston and Summmerfield. Parked up in village next to fp leading up then cut across to reach top although i got a higher reading beside hedge to the East. I Followed West side of hedge to appreciate the vast views before taking stile and fp back to the start. | Dazingdale | 13/06/2020 |
Cycle out from Nottingham, up the public footpath from the grantham canal, followed along field margin, I've the stream and up to summit. Very nice little hill | Nicky C | 30/05/2020 |
Parked at start of ROW to NNE, near Casthorpe Lodge. Took the ROW to wooden steps, then diverted off along field boundaries. | jonglew | 18/10/2019 |
Parked near Casthorpe Lodge. Along track and up field to top of steps. Cut into field and followed tracks to top.Lincolnshire completion. | Bramley | 10/04/2019 |
Walk from Grantham station to Bottesford. Approached summit from E on RoW. L through hedge at steps. Followed boundary to mound in SW corner of field. Highest point seems to be on S side of hedge. Returned to corner but slipped through gap to pass W of hedge to base of the steps, then down to the canal and onwards. | Moorponder | 21/08/2018 |
From Westry Corner along FP, then across ploughed field to unploughed margin and HP. | PeterD | 16/08/2018 |
Path from the ENE and then field margins to the summit area crossed by hedge. | RichardM | 14/03/2018 |
Friendly owner of Casthorpe Grange advised me that path from north now diverted to farmer's track @ SK 8675 3576 | carole engel | 25/02/2018 |
Sunny walk after parking near the canal bridge. | Dugswell2 | 06/07/2017 |
From north past new barn farm and then footpath west and south across to SW corner of field | vegibagger | 16/10/2016 |
Parked near Casthorpe Lodge and followed track south. Continued south east towards steps but instead of going up them followed the hedge line south to the corner of the field where there was an open gate. A left turn and a short walk led to the top. | Wheelsy | 26/07/2016 |
From north. Last Lincs hill. | ngthack | 15/06/2016 |
From the canal bridge to the west of hill. Followed footpaths through fields and then cut diagonally upwards south east towards woods. Had the impression that HP was about 200 m to the north west of stated summit but difficult to tell as sun was still not up. | Campbell Singer | 29/12/2015 |
Took fp from N (diverted round Casthorpe Lodge) and diagonally up field to steps. Several gaps in hedge as AJ | GordonAdshead | 16/07/2015 |
By hedge with views to Grantham. 
Also visited Casthorpe Covert to the north which is an alternative summit in crop field. | Adrian | 25/05/2015 |
From the ENE starting just S of Barrowby. Track and public f/p lead W then SW across fields gently uphill to crest of hill. Steepens, use steps down or nip through hedge and SE to parallel hedgeline. Was wandering about here looking for high points when a nice lady from North Lodge exercising her horses told me I was on private land. Maybe she didn't like having her photo taken? | Aye Jimmy | 12/05/2015 |
120m, hedgeline between arable fields. | RHW | 04/03/2012 |
stevent0809 | 17/05/2023 | |
Wycombe Wanderer | 14/10/2021 | |
Adrian2 | 10/08/2021 | |
johnkenyon | 08/05/2020 | |
andrew brown | 08/09/2016 | |
theboylee667 | 01/01/2013 |