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| Name: | Hensborough Hill |
| Hill number: | 17429 |
| Height: | 113m / 371ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2869 Cleeve Hill |
| RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
| County/UA: | Warwickshire |
| Catchment: | Severn |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
| Grid ref: | SP 46260 69161 |
| Summit feature: | ground 13m SSW of trig point |
| Drop: | 32m |
| Col: | 81m SP470700  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 151 (1:25k) 222 |
| Observations: | trig point is at SP 46262 69174 |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 58 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| A short walk from the parking, but a good excuse to visit Draycote Water. I do wonder if this one qualifies? The dams and embankments presumably form a bridge at c. 90m linking the hill to higher ground. | Mark Jackson | 02/09/2023 |
| Last hill of the day. Phoned mum to thank her for the Christmas cake and headed home. | Wycombe Wanderer | 29/12/2022 |
| Simple 1½ hr trek from Draycote village (saves parking fee). | JonRus | 18/08/2022 |
| G, My | Idris | 03/01/2022 |
| Walk around Draycote water then up the Hill to Trig Point. | James Mayes | 29/12/2021 |
| From Draycote Water car park - £3 for 2 hours... if you decide to pay. | jonglew | 16/09/2020 |
| Busy bank holiday Monday visit, but not too crowded thankfully. Parked in overflow, short walk to the summit (maybe three minutes). There's a 'hill top' car park beyond the overflow that makes it about a 30-second walk. There's a trig point and nice view of the water. Benches as well if you want a rest. We did a walking circuit around the water to stretch our legs, which is fully paved and very pleasant (about five miles around). | sjb | 31/08/2020 |
| Hiked in for a Scouting activity with my lad. Came in from Dunchurch to avoid the crowded car park. Social distancing a challenge on the public paths around the reservoir - but much quieter on the summit. The trig point was all but hidden by the VERY long grass. Blessed by gorgeous weather, and had time for a quick radio contact on 2m from the top ;-) | mad_paddy | 11/07/2020 |
| Short walk from carpark. | PGCE | 02/06/2020 |
| Short stroll from car park. | Bramley | 14/09/2019 |
| Country Park. Only took a couple of minutes so no need to pay. Summit is in field of ridge and furrow. | Herbert Anchovy | 08/05/2019 |
| 1st of 4 Warwickshire tumps today. 06.37 Train from Nottingham to Leamington Spa then 63 bus on main road. I managed to make this harder than it should have been by taking farm track then veering off for top but i was the wrong side of the hedge so had to cross 2 Bw fences then an easy stroll to the top, a few metres from the clump of trees with the Trig pillar further down the slope. Followed grassy track down to the Visitor centre to enjoy a cappuccino, waiting for the next bus to Stockton and my 3 Tump traverse to Byfield... | Dazingdale | 08/12/2018 |
| Easily accessed from the car park, done just before a loop of the reservoir | Cap_Thunderbolt | 03/11/2018 |
| Easy access from the car park. Now £3 if you fancy contributing. | Play2End | 25/08/2018 |
| During 2 lap run of Draycot water | nell1583 | 24/03/2018 |
| From very wide verge of A425 outside the Country Park gate, noted hill top car pk accessible via overflow car pk. I spent 45 min going up the hill and wandering along the resr perimeter path trying to spot the Iceland Gull in the drizzle and failing light. | pwheeler | 09/03/2018 |
| Grassy 'ridge and furrow' hill top with public access S of visitor centre. Good, if a little flat, views. Lots of Goldeneye on reservoir. By cycle. | RichardM | 15/02/2018 |
| From visitors' centre car park, £2.50 seemed extortionate for 15 mins so didn't pay. Thought HP was about 12m SW of trig. | Aye Jimmy | 11/08/2017 |
| Well at least I put some effort in to bag this Tump. Cycled 14 miles from the NAEC at Stoneleigh. And back again. With a slowly deflating back tyre. Nice enough hill summit above the reservoir. | Minto | 08/07/2017 |
| It's a 10-15 minute round trip from the visitor centre carpark, HP a few metres from trig as others have noted. We took it in turns and then cleared off, being too stingy to fork out the minimum £2.50 parking charge. Severn Trent's loss as we would have happily have forked out a quid for an hour but option not available. | milimana | 22/06/2017 |
| 5 small hills and a ridge linked together by 6 small dams to produce a reservoir 5 miles around with no natural feeder streams. Water is pumped in from River Leam or other reservoirs. Serves the likes of Coventry and Rugby. Parked on grass verge of main road as barrier had closed at dusk - would only open to let cars out. | Chris Pearson | 13/05/2017 |
| Agree with PeterD. Damp dawn stroll. | Campbell Singer | 12/02/2017 |
| Walked up from visitors centre car park on path to trig. I though HP was about 30m to SW of trig. | PeterD | 03/11/2016 |
| From visitor centre CP. Not convinced that grid ref is at the highest point. Lots of ripples near the top. | chrisbien | 10/10/2016 |
| En passant; break of journey. | summitsup | 17/03/2016 |
| The summit is a quarter-mile stroll up from Draycote Water visitor centre carpark following footpaths across rough grass. The summit features a trig column and a clump of trees. There are wide views over the Leam valley and across Draycot Water reservoir. | Skip | 20/10/2014 |
| You can park a few metres from the top. Alternatively park at the Draycote Water visitor centre from the back of which a gate leads to a grassy path to the top. You can descend further along Draycote Water to make a very short and easy circular walk. Good facilities and cafe at the visitor centre. | ijpowell | 19/04/2014 |
| I think the high point may be about 50 meters NE of the trig. Didn't stop long today as dogs are not very welcome around the resevoir. Quick dash to the top and back again. | Father Ted | 16/12/2013 |
| Draycote top Southam. 5 minute saunter from bus stop. | Smudge | 19/10/2013 |
| Near to a sailing club. | Adrian | 22/10/2011 |
| Bagged with walk around reservoir. | DanTrig | 07/04/2010 |
| Climbed whilst logging the trig point and geocaching on a birdwatching trip. | birder1951 | 02/01/2010 |
| Easy walk from reservoir | arranc | 23/02/2009 |
| While visiting trig. | rhalstead | 03/11/2007 |
| Regular visits for walking, running and orienteering. | JohnW | 10/11/2004 |
| RHW | 26/03/2004 | |
| Alan Caine | 10/02/2024 | |
| Halfdecent | 27/10/2023 | |
| BrianMatthews | 17/10/2023 | |
| DARRENG | 16/10/2022 | |
| dubvine | 11/09/2022 | |
| Martin R | 23/02/2022 | |
| Daviepa2 | 14/09/2021 | |
| geoffreycurnock | 07/06/2020 | |
| johnkenyon | 22/12/2019 | |
| KC | 14/04/2019 | |
| Andy West | 21/03/2019 | |
| DC11main | 02/01/2019 | |
| Jonathan Russell | 09/12/2017 | |
| Rhino48 | 01/01/2017 |