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Name: | Croydon Hill |
Hill number: | 17462 |
Height: | 83.6m / 274ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2874 Wendover Woods [Haddington Hill] |
RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
County/UA: | Cambridgeshire |
Catchment: | Wash |
Class: | Tump (0-99m) (Tu,0) |
Grid ref: | TL 29805 51014 |
Summit feature: | ground in plantation strip 10m NE of field corner |
Drop: | 46.4m |
Col: | 37.2m TL 2481 4637 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 153 (1:25k) 208E |
Observations: | ground at TL 30677 50379 is 20cm higher but probably artificial. Ground around covered reservoir at TL 30110 50006 is c 1m lower |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 53 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
With Sybil | mntainman | 01/09/2023 |
Parked by farm. Walked the sodden grassy bridleway. THen to the field corner. Odd terrain as every where else looks higher !!! | ChinnockC | 05/08/2023 |
Along side of field from Holbein's Farm. | sclater | 25/01/2023 |
From Holbein Farm | johnkenyon | 18/10/2022 |
On the bike from Gog Magog Hills. Followed the track from Holbein's Farm (took bike with me) to the field corner then along the field edge to the end of the trees. Impossible to tell high point without technology. All looks and feels flat. | MickyRoss | 15/10/2021 |
From Wimpole Hall, via Arrington and Croydon. | welshyboyo | 30/01/2021 |
With Debi. | DaveD | 06/12/2020 |
TD, C & H | This Dog | 20/08/2020 |
Wandered up to wood, hp shortly before it | maclrc | 14/06/2020 |
From Holbein Farm. | PGCE | 26/05/2020 |
Revisit to check Northern plateaux nr East Hatley, walking up and down street then into fields on a circuit but no higher ground visited. Revisited Reservoir. Nice view from the top. Continuing yo Rowley hill... | Dazingdale | 23/02/2020 |
4th and final tump of the day. A 5.9km circular from Croydon village, visiting the 80m spot height N of the Trig pillar, the 82m spot adj reservoir plus the scrubby land within copse near 4 field junction, recording 79m @ TL 29875 50832. Recorded 78m on fp NE to 81m spot and then on road South again near the 81m spot height then South to take the fp back to the car. | Dazingdale | 12/01/2020 |
Along Ermine Street for Cambridgeshire completion | Bramley | 12/04/2019 |
FP from Holbein farm. Visited a number of potential HPs around field corner. Completion of UA. | PeterD | 13/04/2018 |
As Campbell Singer. It was decidedly dusky and I frightened off dozens of pheasants that were roosting in the top of the tall hedge. Hard to believe this was actually a hill. | Herbert Anchovy | 06/02/2018 |
Parked opposite Holbein Farm at start of fp. Easy walk along to indeterminate top. | Campbell Singer | 22/11/2017 |
As for KC. | arranc | 15/10/2017 |
Parked near Holbein's Farm at b/way Ermine Street sign. Track to gate near corner of field, into wood, field edges. No definite HP. Thought approach track 230m from start looked as high. | Aye Jimmy | 30/09/2017 |
One flat hill this. Walked straight bridleway from farm to bend and back. | KC | 03/09/2017 |
Quick bag from Holbein's Farm. Headed NE along the bridleway as far as the small trees at the far end of the field. | Owen B | 25/06/2017 |
Wrestlingworth circular. Extensive ramble around the summit contour - GPS produced highest readings along the Holbeins Farm NE track (apart from on reservoir summit). | Smudge | 18/03/2017 |
Parked opposite Holbein's Farm then footpath to edge of wood. I walked through wood and along field edges for completeness. | Dugswell2 | 30/08/2016 |
From Croydon Church | Fred Windsor | 04/08/2016 |
Walked along from the road. Small wooded area at junc 4 arable fields. Walked around but difficult to determine a precise HP. | jonglew | 29/07/2016 |
Long bike ride from Cambridge via Harcamlow Way and through impressive Wimpole National Trust Estate. Been around this hill many times in the eighties as it was a good place to see herds of fallow deer | trimarc2 | 22/07/2016 |
Solo | simon and co | 01/07/2016 |
The sticky clay soil, globs of which stuck to my wellies, had by the 13th C earned the nearby village the name of 'hungry' Hartley due to the difficulty of cultivating the land here until mechanisation in the 20TH C. | Chris Pearson | 01/06/2016 |
Bagged on way from school in saffron walden. Parked at bottom of hill near Croydon, walked via village edge up to trig and then path, road and field edge path to summit. Tramped over some bumps in the nearby wood and various edges of field, and even to telegraph pole in field. Top seemed to be on the path heading off to road. Beautiful sunset! Walked back along road to car as it was beginning to get dark. Thus completeth my Cambs tumps, my first county completion, and rightly so as I am a Cambridge boy born and bred. | pdantic | 30/09/2015 |
15-mile bike ride from Little Shelford. Very flat top probably on bridleway, or could be at covered reservoir to the south. | Mark Jackson | 27/09/2015 |
Intriguing that the big flat area has no spot brought of 83 at the place designated here or on Geograph but a number of 81 and 82 spots. | vegibagger | 13/09/2015 |
Tour of the cornfields cyclocross sportive. | AndyS | 06/09/2015 |
As RHW - corner of wood higher than field | PeteN | 24/08/2015 |
As RHW | GordonAdshead | 11/02/2015 |
Did top on road but then headed into arable field to the west for HP. Also went up to the top of the reservoir. | Adrian | 31/08/2014 |
Parked on verge SW. | destaylor | 13/02/2014 |
Corner of woodland, S edge of bridleway: field is clearly lower. | RHW | 04/12/2011 |
Martin R | 20/01/2022 | |
Wycombe Wanderer | 18/12/2021 | |
Bag For Life | 18/12/2021 | |
RichardM | 23/06/2021 | |
davefh | 05/10/2020 | |
Stormer | 26/12/2018 | |
DC11main | 11/04/2018 | |
BrianMatthews | 31/01/2017 | |
stevent0809 | 29/10/2016 | |
andrew brown | 10/08/2016 | |
ngthack | 03/08/2016 | |
MKGees | 06/02/2016 | |
softsquare | 12/08/2015 | |
Ramblingpaul | 05/02/2015 |