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| Name: | Smithen Down |
| Hill number: | 18193 |
| Height: | 156m / 512ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2895 Long Knoll |
| RHB Section: | 41: South Central England |
| County/UA: | Wiltshire |
| Catchment: | Avon & Stour |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m), Clem (Tu,1,Cm) |
| Grid ref: | SU 10128 35525 |
| Summit feature: | trig point |
| Drop: | 50m |
| Col: | 106m SU110429  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 184 (1:25k) 130S |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
N.B. Some hill summits are on private property or on land where there is no public right of way. Permission should be sought from the landowner where access to a hill summit is through private land.
Please report via the contact page any logs you see below which describe or encourage acts of trespass. Please quote the hill number and hill name.
| Logged Descriptions (logged by 30 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Parked in the layby on the west side of the road and up the track. Trig is just by the track before the mast. | clivevilla | 31/07/2023 |
| Parking for one car at entrance to aerial track. Up track to trig. | CreakingHiker | 29/07/2021 |
| Quick walk up aerial track, parking briefly at wide track entrance. HP by trig, which is to the N of (not in) hawthorn hedge. Extensive downs views on sunny cool day. | Denise | 25/04/2021 |
| A short walk along track from the busy A360. | RichardM | 25/04/2021 |
| Easy park from east. | PGCE | 03/08/2020 |
| Amesbury to Old Sarum. Terrain S of the hedge seemed marginally higher. | Smudge | 15/11/2019 |
| From South Newton at dusk. | rhalstead | 31/03/2019 |
| Up track as it was getting dark | PeterD | 11/11/2018 |
| Parked just off the A360 a small area by a gate leads to an open field, summit and trig located by the hedge… trig now upright (just) being proped up with stones at the base | Tony Hartry | 18/03/2016 |
| An easy ascent on a wild and wet morning. | Chris Peart | 25/12/2015 |
| Short walk up track to the trig which is now standing again. | Herbert Anchovy | 17/09/2015 |
| Home of a dead trig too. Sad to see but base complete and central bolt/nipple still intact | vegibagger | 03/04/2015 |
| Easy parking to east where track meets A360. Good track all way to summit trig. Trig has been toppled in what looks like an incident with farm machinery? Now lying on its side with number plate hidden. Pleasant views. | Hillsidenick | 14/11/2013 |
| Parking roadside on A360 at entrance to access road for comms mast. Walked across to toppled trig pillar and hill summit. Sweeping vistas of Wiltshire farmland. | jonglew | 17/01/2013 |
| easy track | Adrian | 28/01/2012 |
| Climbed in passing on way home after Easter course at Dauntseys School. short track from busy road . Clem and a trig | Chris Pearson | 16/04/2010 |
| dull summit, fine view. park at road gate, floow tk W to summit TP N side of hedge | RHW | 19/10/2002 |
| Martin R | 28/08/2023 | |
| Andy West | 25/05/2023 | |
| Matt | 10/10/2021 | |
| Alan Caine | 25/07/2021 | |
| Swindon Bagger | 23/08/2020 | |
| jimbloomer | 31/07/2020 | |
| Mark Sims | 30/08/2018 | |
| andrew brown | 13/06/2018 | |
| carole engel | 19/02/2018 | |
| salen | 07/05/2017 | |
| Jacqdaw | 14/11/2013 | |
| stevent0809 | 05/10/2013 | |
| BrianMatthews | 25/09/2008 |