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Name:Kentisbury Down
Hill number:17943
Height:337m / 1106ft
Parent (Ma):2889  Dunkery Beacon
RHB Section:40: Cornwall & Devon
County/UA:Devon
Hill area:Exmoor
Catchment:Taw, Catchment Boundaries
Class:Tump (300-399m)
(Tu,3)
Grid ref:SS 63967 43477
Summit feature:hedge bank 10m NE of trig point
Drop:61m
Col:276m  SS646432  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 180
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 19 users)ByDate of Ascent
Parked on minor road to NW, near, but not blocking a gate- marginal. Gate access to summit field if you started by mapped 'mill'. Sheep pasture. Trig FB faces West on embankment; not certain where HP is but somewhere near.Denise 13/06/2023
From Down Lane. Best to start on the windpump side of the hedge line, sheep pasture and gates all the way.RichardM13/06/2023
We parked at 6368 4416, off Down Lane, and left a note for the farmer. 35 min was enough for a walk up pleasant pastures to bag the trig, wall top and scout around for a HP at pasture level and get down before the rainpwheeler09/06/2022
Camped in the first field with the permission of the farmer who was baling hay. Strolled up to the summit.Eddie08/07/2019
From minor road field entrance to NW. Easy pasture walk thru three fields with no gates or fences.Campbell Singer11/04/2019
Parking for a car without blocking field entrance NE side road (SS 6414 4399).jonglew29/03/2019
Small pull-in on the road to the east. A series of fields to the summit.moorsman06/08/2018
Parked in lay-by on A399 and short walk across field. Top is on raised bank by Trig PointRamblingpaul05/04/2016
RHW31/03/2007
Pasture land summit trig point S5152Tony Hartry01/06/1997
Date approx., climbed on family hols down at Kentisbury Mill. Great spotnordicstar01/07/1977
BrianMatthews31/05/2023
Matt09/07/2022
Adrian29/03/2019
stevent080926/02/2016
asbown17/07/2013
Dusty17/02/2013
andrew.allum01/01/2000
IainT26/11/1998