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| Name: | Charborough Tower |
| Hill number: | 18285 |
| Height: | 101m / 331ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2896 Lewesdon Hill |
| RHB Section: | 41: South Central England |
| County/UA: | Dorset |
| Catchment: | Avon & Stour |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
| Grid ref: | SY929975 (est) |
| Drop: | 50m |
| Col: | 51m SY874965  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 195 (1:25k) 118S |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 11 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Approached on forest tracks from S, parking in muddy lay-by by gate by West Park farm. At HP is large ornate tower, a bramble knoll, a covered reservoir and electric substation. Knoll probably HP. Good views of and would be visible from Charborough house. Plaque commemorates planting of trees by Admiral Drax 1938-55. Grouse rearing pens and lots of grouse. Delightful woodland with many paths- oak, pine, chestnut, beech, and some bracken and rhododendron. Deer. | Denise | 20/11/2022 |
| From road to S, good parking on grass verge E of West Park farm. Woodland tracks to tower. Thinning operations in progress but all quiet today. Rhododendron covered bank on W side feels likely high point though area was probably levelled to build tower on original high point. Good view of House from Tower. | RichardM | 20/11/2022 |
| Parked on verge outside West Park Farm and hopped over gate opposite into woods. Followed tracks, some faint, to summit (went right at first junction). | PGCE | 23/04/2021 |
| Charborough House and manor has passed by lineage to Richard Drax ( fully quadruple surname Richard Plunkett Ernle Earle Drax) current MP for South Dorset. Short foray to the folly tower from SW through woodland where if challenged I was contemplating trying to claim feudal peasant rights of estover (collecting firewood) or pannage (letting my pigs forage for acorns). In return I was resigned to having to accept the requirement to plough the demense ( lord’s land) or fight in his army for the monarch. Luckily I met no one. A substantial army of bricklayers must have arrived here in 1842 as the deer park grounds are surrounded by one of he longest brick walls in Britain ( 2 million bricks) - most of which can be inspected when driving along the bordering A31. | Chris Pearson | 24/03/2019 |
| From SW. HP in brambles 25m W of monument and 2m higher than the ground it stands on. They're bell ringing at the church this eve. | RHW | 26/02/2016 |
| From Lychett Matravers church. Accessed estate at SY 92822 96698 then forest paths to HP. Dawn raid, no-one around, plenty of pheasant. Grade II* listed tower near top; covered reservoir at HP. | jonglew | 25/11/2015 |
| Heavily vegetated high ground just to west of folly tower. | Adrian | 19/07/2015 |
| Martin R | 01/09/2023 | |
| DC11main | 15/08/2023 | |
| andrew brown | 19/08/2017 | |
| stevent0809 | 31/05/2015 |