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Name: | Roundham Head Hill |
Hill number: | 17915 |
Height: | 34m / 112ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2877 High Willhays |
RHB Section: | 40: Cornwall & Devon |
County/UA: | Torbay |
Catchment: | Minor Rivers only (South) |
Class: | Tump (0-99m) (Tu,0) |
Grid ref: | SX892600 (est) |
Drop: | 30m |
Col: | 4m SX888602 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 202 (1:25k) OL20E OL44 110 |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 20 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
2nd visit as we used the streets up here for free parking to walk into Paignton for a prescription then the 4km along the coast to Torquay and then after enjoying the March sunshine and our sandwiches with the seagulls (and birdseed with a flock of Turnstones) walked back again. Beaches good but too much on pavement alongside busy, noisy main road. Today I marched up the front drive of 10A to seek permission, but by the time I got to the front door was level with lawn high point,so marched back again without disturbing anyone. | Chris Pearson | 11/03/2024 |
Enjoying the English Riveria on a beautiful warm sunny early March day. With L on a wander around the promenade, gardens and cliff top paths of Paignton. 6 retired gents were (with silent concentration) racing their radio controlled model yachts around a course on the boating lake - very english. Excellent geology on display in the red sandstone cliffs -laid down in a Sahara like (Permian era) desert (even hotter than today). Lots of angular fragments embedded in this breccia sandstone are bits of older limestone, broken up by heating and cooling in then desert then swept away by flash flooding and later compressed into rock. Cross bedding also evident made by flowing water currents, with the largest particles at the bottom -where they sank. There is a good town geology trail online. Lovely suntrap on Fairy Beach - very fine shingle. 15 mins hunting found some nicely worn sea glass. Peered in at all the summit houses. | Chris Pearson | 05/03/2024 |
Stroll up from skanky Paignton, the worst of the Torbay towns. It was a pleasant stroll around the harbour and the park around Roundham Head headland, but the summit itself is just on a rsidential street, albeit in one of the fancier parts of Paignton. | wheresthepath | 13/02/2023 |
To avoid any confusion, the relevant house is 10a Roundham Road; this house has the name 'Keysfield'. A nearby street called Keysfield Road is just a red herring... | Matt | 16/07/2021 |
There is high ground in front garden of large house at 10A Keysfield at the junction of Keysfield Rd and Belle Vue Rd. There is a raised area of grass with mature hollyoaks with stone boundary wall and gates. The pavement is only a little lower and the natural ground seems more likely to be at pavement height, and other ground disturbed but hard to say. | Denise | 04/04/2019 |
Slight detour from the harbour back to Summerhill Hotel after a boat trip. No view, so basically only worth it if you are super close/really into hill bagging. Could be done in a car if you skip the trespass into 10A's garden. It's probably less than a foot higher. I skipped it. | Rosaidh | 20/10/2018 |
Walked on to drive. | Ramblingpaul | 06/11/2016 |
Short detour whilst walking the Torquay to Brixham section of the Coast Path. Didn't enter the private garden but good enough for me. | milimana | 29/09/2016 |
10a Keyham front garden is 1m higher than road. I took way point just inside side gate, lawn. S side of road. | RHW | 09/07/2016 |
Agree front garden of 10A easily higher than road. Walked up to front door, but by that time had taken a grid reading so walked back out. | jonglew | 09/07/2016 |
Have ticked off worse. Easy drive by in pleasant residential location while on holiday here. But agree with Des not to bother except for sake of the tick. | ijpowell | 27/07/2015 |
Waste of time. | destaylor | 15/06/2015 |
Halfdecent | 19/10/2023 | |
ssstevesreeves | 19/07/2021 | |
RichardM | 04/04/2019 | |
keithybaby9 | 28/08/2018 | |
andrew brown | 03/06/2018 | |
Swindon Bagger | 28/04/2018 | |
Ozymandias | 11/07/2016 | |
Moorponder | 13/06/2013 |