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| Name: | Chinkwell Tor |
| Hill number: | 17493 |
| Height: | 460m / 1509ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2877 High Willhays |
| RHB Section: | 40: Cornwall & Devon |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Dartmoor |
| County/UA: | Devon |
| Catchment: | Dart, Catchment Boundaries, Teign |
| Class: | Tump (400-499m) (Tu,4) |
| Grid ref: | SX 72940 78227 |
| Summit feature: | cairn |
| Drop: | 79m |
| Col: | 381m SX735772  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 191 (1:25k) OL28N |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 54 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Climbed from the lane in the valley to the west. Visibility much better that my last ascent. | RVC | 07/06/2023 |
| Climbed from the Bonehill Rocks car park after climbing Bell Tor. Cold & windy so didn't hang around at the summit. | RVC | 06/12/2022 |
| With Sam | simon and co | 12/06/2022 |
| From parking area to S close to Bonehill Rocks | RobertP | 04/02/2022 |
| With Mick & Mary. | MickyRoss | 14/10/2020 |
| With Jo, from Hound Tor car park: over Bonehill Down to Bell Tor, Chinkwell Tor and Honeybag Tor. Then followed tracks and roads to Heatree Down (used gap between fence/gate posts SSE) then continued forward to Hayne Down. Weather; sunny, warm, good visibility. | amblerbob | 17/09/2020 |
| From parking to S. Over Bell Tor, the two cairned tops of Chinkwell, Honeybag and Sharp Tor. | Nick Down1 | 17/07/2019 |
| Hound Tor, Greator Rocks, Bell Tor, Chinkwell Tor, Honeybag Tor 7 mile circuit | whiskybottle | 06/07/2019 |
| Free parking area at SX 7304 7757. Over Bell Tor first. Nipped up to the more impressive and slightly tricky Bonehill Rocks after. | jonglew | 31/03/2019 |
| sunny day | cjo | 29/03/2019 |
| Dusk. Beautiful calm evening, still in shorts. Pushing hard to make my 10pm last light rendezvous with J and B - my support crew for my 100 tors in 25 hours outing. Couple sat outside their tent up here watching the tranquil sunset.. | Chris Pearson | 22/07/2018 |
| A repeat visit, on a circuit with L and Flook from Hound Tor. Exploring and scrambling on tors big and small. Bonehill Rocks to the south are a fascinating jumble of boulders - a boulderers mecca | Chris Pearson | 13/07/2017 |
| Pair of large cairns on ground of similar height. Base of SE just higher. Also visited on :- 25-10-1980, | RichardM | 20/01/2017 |
| Superb, clear, sunny, frosty day.Large stone cairns of which SE was highest. Continued to summit of wonderfully named Honeybag Tor, with 2 similar height outcrops; we decided N was highest, did not climb south- awkward. | Denise | 20/01/2017 |
| Chagford Challenge 21 miles route | benwloudon | 09/10/2016 |
| Parked at Swallerton Gate car park (SX 73942 79222) and took the lane south, then various boggy tracks west to the summit. Walk continued to Top Tor. Solo. | Man of Kernow1 | 22/05/2016 |
| 4/14 of long but satisfying hill bagging day (Hay Tor/Rippen Tor/Top Tor/Chinkwell Tor/Hound Tor/Heatree Down/Easdon Tor/Black Hill/Birch Tor/Challacombe Down/Hamel Down/Hookney Tor/Cornden Tor | Fergalh | 13/06/2015 |
| On own. From CP to south | Crib Goch | 29/06/2014 |
| good views | Adrian | 13/07/2013 |
| jammed boulder over gap. Tor bagging day with Darren. short link to Honeybag Tor, useful vague cow path off tourist trail now NW down through bracken and bramble to road. | Chris Pearson | 06/08/2010 |
| From Widecombe-in-the Moor, W then N over Hamel Down to Hameldown Tor, E to Natsworthy Gate, returning over Honeybag Tor, Chinkwell Tor and Bell Tor. | milimana | 18/02/2010 |
| Linear tor-bagging stroll from Hay Tor to Bowerman's Nose. | Jake994 | 28/08/2007 |
| Tor Bagging | PK1 | 29/04/2006 |
| fine summit & foresummit, lovely view. good path from S | RHW | 05/09/2004 |
| A retrospective log. Recorded in Terry Bound's A-Z of Dartmoor Tors. My first visit to the Moors on a camping trip with my wife and then young children. Letterboxing was the order of the day. | Anthony Vosper | 27/08/1989 |
| KNTM On way to finding our first letterbox on Honeybag Tor passed over here. | crazy | 25/09/1987 |
| danduponty | 09/03/2024 | |
| Swindon Bagger | 16/02/2024 | |
| Joel451 | 28/10/2023 | |
| Halfdecent | 22/10/2023 | |
| Matt | 17/07/2021 | |
| Andy West | 16/04/2021 | |
| carole engel | 27/06/2018 | |
| Moorponder | 21/06/2018 | |
| mae | 06/10/2017 | |
| Lesley Atchison | 13/07/2017 | |
| alda | 27/10/2016 | |
| MM | 31/08/2016 | |
| KM | 31/08/2016 | |
| AJ&B | 25/03/2016 | |
| hillplodder | 15/11/2014 | |
| moorsman | 21/08/2014 | |
| nicolajane | 20/10/2012 | |
| TeasyChris | 20/05/2012 | |
| RocksRock | 11/05/2011 | |
| isabelle | 02/03/2011 | |
| amarillo-oro-como | 28/07/2007 | |
| andrew.allum | 01/01/2000 | |
| anne3366 | 11/07/1999 | |
| IainT | 28/09/1993 |