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| Name: | Cow Castle |
| Hill number: | 17945 |
| Height: | 332m / 1089ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2889 Dunkery Beacon |
| RHB Section: | 41: South Central England |
| County/UA: | Somerset |
| Hill area: | Exmoor |
| Catchment: | Exe |
| Class: | Tump (300-399m) (Tu,3) |
| Grid ref: | SS 79388 37352 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: grass |
| Drop: | 34m |
| Col: | 298m SS794374  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 180 (1:25k) OL9W |
| Survey: | obvious summit |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 27 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Part of 3 peak walk. Nice summit. | cjo | 07/04/2023 |
| Parked at 78361 and di first Horsen Hill and then back down and went to Cow Castle. Presumably this was a Bronze Age hill fort and a man I spoke to said he had found evidence of dwellings. | clivevilla | 09/07/2022 |
| Parked near Landacre Bridge for a circuit of 4 Tumps: Thornemead Hill, Cow Castle (a nice little hill), Horsen Hill and Withypool Common. | PGCE | 10/12/2021 |
| Rain stopped, sun came out, luminous green grass and intense rainbow. Lovely little hillfort. Only just managed to jump across gushing stream to East; three useful bridges to South. | Denise | 26/10/2020 |
| A smooth sided rounded hill rising from valley floor, just to it's SE a lower more pointed peak. We leap the racing White Water then grassy path to hill fort summit. Fine valley views. | RichardM | 26/10/2020 |
| As others parked before Horsen Farm. Then walked a 13km circuit taking in Horsen Hill, Cow Castle and Thornemead Hill. Cow Castle is a lovely little hill set in wonderful surroundings. | fosal29 | 19/09/2019 |
| Walking the Exe Valley Way | Poolton123 | 15/06/2019 |
| From Horsen Farm. Signposts suggests that Cow Castle is a mile and a quarter away. It isn't. Just shy of two miles, though down good paths. | moorsman | 06/08/2018 |
| From Horsen Farm after Horsen Hill, followed ROW. | PeterD | 27/06/2018 |
| From Simonsbath. Down Two Moors Way and back up via Pickedstones. | davidpettit84 | 22/07/2016 |
| From Horsen Farm on RoW. Nice hill nestling between higher hills on all sides; once an IA hill fort and now a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Steep little hill to SW interesting but could only make it a p23. | jonglew | 03/04/2016 |
| With Jo, walk from Simonsbath: Two Moors Way to Cow Castle, then bridleways to Horsen Hill. Weather; sunny, hot, good visibility. | amblerbob | 30/06/2015 |
| From SW, end of yellow road. Interesting steep little summit to SSE GPSd as 311m P27 at SS 79556 37168 | RHW | 03/04/2015 |
| 2nd summit of The day on The Two Moors way having Climbed Chains Barrow earlier in The day. I Climbed up from the trail that profiles round one side of this hill. Beautiful views on top on this day as The hills in The distance (towards Withypool ) were lit up in sunshine whereas others were still in shadow. The ramparts Are clearly seen on this hill indicating that It Was once a hillfort of some sort. | Dazingdale | 22/03/2014 |
| Rough verge parking at end of minor road at SS 78399 36681. Horsen Hill - Cow Castle. | David Gradwell | 26/10/2011 |
| Martin R | 19/02/2024 | |
| Andy West | 15/05/2023 | |
| Swindon Bagger | 29/04/2023 | |
| isabelle | 03/08/2022 | |
| Matt | 04/07/2022 | |
| andrew brown | 10/11/2018 | |
| Adrian | 15/05/2017 | |
| stevent0809 | 31/12/2016 | |
| hillplodder | 01/10/2016 | |
| Edwin Gradwell | 26/10/2011 | |
| andrew.allum | 01/01/2000 | |
| Dusty | 08/04/1986 |