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| Name: | Widdicombe Hill |
| Hill number: | 17809 |
| Height: | 106.5m / 349ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2877 High Willhays |
| RHB Section: | 40: Cornwall & Devon |
| County/UA: | Devon |
| Catchment: | Minor Rivers only (South) |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
| Grid ref: | SX 80873 41868 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: arable |
| Drop: | 49.1m |
| Col: | 57.4m SX 8037 4282  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 202 (1:25k) OL20E |
| Observations: | summit 690m E at SX 81563 41814 is 0.3m 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 5 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| After a frosty night a perfect blue sky day - just like the Med with warm sun, dazling blue sea, not a breath of wind - in November! With L and dogs on a 3 hr run along the coast from Beesands, up via transmitter mast track - workgang in situ with large crane adding dishes to the mast. A workman strode across the summit field ,we thought to intercept us, but stopped and turned round to take a photo of their handiwork. Visited, at the foot of the hill, the Slapton Sands Sherman tank - a sobering memorial to 749 American troops, maybe more, who died in the tradegy of Exercise Tiger in 1944, when during a practice invasion for D Day their boats were torpedoed. An error in radio code frequencies and wrongly worn life jackets, compounded the horror. Hill unticked following Sept 20 revision as 690m west is 30cms higher ! | Chris Pearson | 02/11/2018 |
| Access from S via transmitter service track. Reaching transmitter compound a gate W into field then wide field margins to summit area. | RichardM | 13/05/2017 |
| Followed path from delightful coast to aerial, then into cropped field edged with dense buttercups.Luckily a tractor track was on high point. | Denise | 13/05/2017 |
| W summit in arable field accessed from N via field edges. Then field edges and paths to east summit, also arable field. Cirl bunting singing a nice bonus, a speciality around here iirc | RHW | 09/07/2016 |
| Matt | 04/07/2021 | |
| Dusty | 27/03/2019 |