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| Name: | West Down Beacon |
| Hill number: | 18237 |
| Height: | 131m / 430ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2892 Staple Hill |
| RHB Section: | 40: Cornwall & Devon |
| County/UA: | Devon |
| Catchment: | Exe, Catchment Boundaries |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
| Grid ref: | SY 04565 81114 |
| Summit feature: | ground by path |
| Drop: | 41m |
| Col: | 90m SY043822  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 192 (1:25k) 115 |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 46 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Foggy day on SWCP | AJones | 29/03/2023 |
| On SW Coast Path from Budleigh to Exmouth | rjf35 | 27/11/2022 |
| Myself and Alma Aurea walked up to the summit from Budleigh Salterton. By murky up here today. | meltdiceburg | 16/10/2022 |
| Staying in Prem Inn near Taunton. Reached the South Coast quite early to park 1km N of the top. Enjoyable walk up the golf course and back again after exploring a little of each way of the coastal path. | GordonAdshead | 28/08/2022 |
| Parked to N near start of ROW. Easy walk to trig and summit. | PGCE | 06/06/2022 |
| SWCP: Exmouth to Sidmouth - Great weather, views and walking. | JazDisney | 13/05/2022 |
| As part of South West Coastal Path Walk from Exmouth to Budleigh Salterton. | ma7asw | 19/03/2022 |
| Easy parking NE on Links Road. ROW to SWCP then a walk along to the Trig a few meters from the HP by 16th tee. | fosal29 | 02/02/2020 |
| On a geocaching trip out from Cardiff - a long day. Nice to get this cache, trig and TUMP all in one! Approached from the North along the footpath. | Father Ted | 01/09/2019 |
| Sunny walk round from Links Road to the 16th tee and then the trig. | Dugswell2 | 26/03/2019 |
| Sidmouth to Exmouth on the SWCP. Short diversion to trig and Tee. | rhalstead | 16/02/2019 |
| Route: Exmouth station – The Geoneedle – Budleigh Salterton. Stats: 2hrs35, 9.79km, 321.7m ascent. Weather: cloudy but warm. Notes: unable to summit because I couldn’t find the trig point in the gorse bushes; OODS walk. | millionmts | 21/09/2018 |
| Parked in golf club car park. Short linking path to SW Coastal Path. With Carole Engel. | jonglew | 24/02/2018 |
| Through the caravan site then along the LDP. 16th tee highest. | Play2End | 11/09/2017 |
| Bagged as YSM0760 West Down Beacon. As per Mr U2's log, trying to say time and distance we made this a total nightmare. Parked outside caravan park and then entered. Walked through caravan park, went over bushes and through trees to enter a field. Walked along side then through hedgerow and down steep brambley bank and on to proper track. Then track disappeared and it was through the tramlines in the fields. Then went through barbed wire fence and into woods. Then followed faint tracks until found main track that took us to golf course. Walked up through that and only 60m from pillar, we got a lecture from a golfer. Once we got to the pillar it was a straightforward track down to field and across that and back into main track. Going back to the wildlife place close to caravan park. A bit of an epic this one was. #4 day#3 - Epic for all the wrong reasons! Total day#2 #11 Total day#1 #13 | thejackrustles | 20/08/2017 |
| Lovely view from the trigpoint pillar. | Alancache | 06/08/2017 |
| Was down in Devon for the UK geocaching Mega. Parked at the entrance of the caravan park, and made the lengthy walk to the Trig Point. Great views across the Exe | nathanjhunt | 05/08/2017 |
| On Exmouth to Sidmouth section of SWCP. | Nab Scar | 23/07/2017 |
| Exe to axe run | benwloudon | 02/04/2017 |
| A brisk and slightly hazardous walk in across the busy golf course - groups of youth doing DofE training and a family dressed as pirates on a treasure hunt (miles from there the clue should have sent them) | M3WDD | 18/06/2016 |
| Good walk from B3178 through golf course | Poolton123 | 15/11/2015 |
| In the words of Gordon McRae in Oklahoma 'Oh what a beautiful morning' Out early after dropping my wife at work. Parked in the free car park in town. Yes there are still some of these about. A gentle climb and the job was done. Not a soul about just great. | Anthony Vosper | 21/09/2014 |
| On SW Coast Path | nickywood1 | 08/09/2011 |
| RHW | 12/08/2006 | |
| Bagged whilst on Holiday at Sandy Bay Trig point S3755 | Tony Hartry | 29/07/1997 |
| Date estimated. | TK | 14/05/1996 |
| On S W Peninsular walk. | arranc | 18/01/1986 |
| Halfdecent | 23/10/2023 | |
| Andy West | 24/06/2023 | |
| hughbagger | 05/05/2023 | |
| Matt | 09/01/2023 | |
| ambsweeney | 01/07/2022 | |
| phil101 | 05/05/2021 | |
| dave g | 23/05/2019 | |
| carole engel | 24/02/2018 | |
| amblemark | 30/09/2017 | |
| Alan Moore | 08/08/2016 | |
| Dusty | 02/11/2010 | |
| AlanD | 21/07/2010 | |
| Tony J | 02/08/2008 | |
| David Purchase | 19/04/2007 | |
| Berkscire874 | 03/07/2006 | |
| raymondwilkes | 05/07/2005 | |
| MM | 23/08/2003 | |
| Moorponder | 29/07/1990 | |
| Clachaig | 01/05/1983 | |
| Adrian | blank |