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| Name: | Isle of Wight Hill |
| Hill number: | 18454 |
| Height: | 171.7m / 563ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2906 Walbury Hill |
| RHB Section: | 42: South-East England & the Isle of Wight |
| County/UA: | Hampshire |
| Catchment: | Test |
| Class: | Unclassified (Un) |
| Grid ref: | SU 24764 37283 |
| Summit feature: | no feature |
| Drop: | 8.5m |
| Col: | 163.2m SU 2452 3768  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 184 (1:25k) 131S |
| Comments: | Replaced as Tump in Apr 2022 by 19823 Tower Hill Plantation |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 9 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Sunday evening attempt from the E, along the tree line having parked near Jack's Bush. Got stopped by a police officer whilst on agricultural land but within the MOD boundary (although I had not encountered any signs on the route I had taken). My details were taken and checked on the police computer. I said I hoped to go to the trig (seemed more probable than the hill summit), but was told no-way. Land is contaminated by trials conducted by Porton Down establishment. A friendly encounter, but I think a Hampshire completion is now off the cards. | PGCE | 29/08/2021 |
| From the SE using vehicle tracks most of the way. All very peaceful except for a farmer's gas gun in a nearby OSR crop. Lovely walk over a large expanse of unimproved grassland and scrub that has been saved from agricultural ruin by the MoD. Then into attractive beech woodlands with a great display of primroses and violets. Dozens of roe deer about. Also found a tawny owl chick that seems to have fallen from a barn owl nest box. I didn't realise until afterwards but this appears to be part of the Porton Down chemical weapons research centre. | Herbert Anchovy | 23/04/2018 |
| With thanks to J.Glew for guided tour to TuMP and on to Tower hill trig | carole engel | 26/12/2017 |
| No MOD access arrangements found on web so went for a 6.45am start in the twilight of a frosty winter dawn. All quiet. From petrol station to SE followed line of Hamps /Wilts border across stubble field (no evidence of the mapped 'byway open to all traffic'?) then on track up through 'area of battle run'. Half expected in the half light for one of the many motionless gorse bushes to be a camouflaged soldier on exercise and spring into life and scream at me to put my hands up - but thankfully all remained still and frozen on this beautiful dawn. Pushed my luck and extended my visit to include Tower Hill -still nobody about. Jogged back same way | Chris Pearson | 05/12/2016 |
| Second attempt on this hill. Dusk attack from S this time instead of the East as previously. | Adrian | 17/05/2015 |
| From SE mainly on vehicle tracks. In beech wood with lot of new plantings. HP seemed to be 60m, or thereabouts, W of OS 175m contour. On to the Tower Hill trig pillar. ***Re-visited 26 Dec 2017 with Carole Engel. From farm gate at Lopcombe Corner; on to Tower Hill trig pillar after the hill. | jonglew | 26/12/2014 |
| nice beechwood fragment, flat summit. escorted visit c/o DSTL(MOD) | RHW | 04/10/2004 |
| daveyf2001 | 20/03/2022 | |
| andrew brown | 26/10/2018 | |
| stevent0809 | 05/10/2013 |