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| Name: | Badbury Hill |
| Hill number: | 18478 |
| Height: | 163m / 535ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2906 Walbury Hill |
| RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
| County/UA: | Oxfordshire |
| Catchment: | Thames |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m), Clem (Tu,1,Cm) |
| Grid ref: | SU 26114 94764 |
| Summit feature: | ground on northern ramparts |
| Drop: | 73m |
| Col: | 90.3m SU 2285 8830  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 163 174 (1:25k) 170W |
| Observations: | ground at SU 26235 94717 and SU 26216 94623 may be as high or higher |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 50 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Halfdecent | 26/10/2023 | |
| Martin R | 06/10/2022 | |
| fryerrobin | 23/04/2022 | |
| A short stop after visiting Faringdon Hill. Great display of bluebells | ekm | 17/04/2022 |
| With GB from Great Barn. | Bheinn | 25/03/2022 |
| salen | 31/10/2021 | |
| Matt | 02/10/2021 | |
| johnkenyon | 11/09/2021 | |
| DC11main | 11/07/2021 | |
| £2 for two hours but well worth it for the stunning display of bluebells. HP looks like being on the earthworks on the eastern side but I know that, as they are man-made, that probably does not count. | clivevilla | 12/05/2021 |
| Parked in the NT car park. Walk through the middle of the fort and round eastern ramparts for highpoint. | PGCE | 22/12/2020 |
| KC | 31/10/2020 | |
| davefh | 16/10/2020 | |
| arjh | 30/06/2020 | |
| Andy West | 20/06/2020 | |
| Wycombe Wanderer | 24/12/2019 | |
| After Faringdon hill, a short drive to the National Trust car park with Lesley and after validating my card, a short walk through the middle (as the Western section of the ring is clearly lower) then exploration of ramparts.High point likely adjacent large Two-trunked Sycamore. Lovely sunshine today. Lesley enjoyed the atmosphere. Afterwards we headed over to Great Coxwell Tithe Barn which is of a stupendous size. We continued to Chedworth Roman Villa. My Oxfordshire completion tump! | Dazingdale | 08/09/2019 |
| NT car park and fairly interesting circuit of ramparts. | GordonAdshead | 24/06/2019 |
| NT carpark busy with NT folk getting ready for the bluebell season. HP somewhere on E rim of copse. Visited trig across the road too. | Aye Jimmy | 06/04/2019 |
| Ben Rinnes | 14/03/2019 | |
| Free car park. Visited Great Coxwell Barn afterwards (amazing structure!). Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 10/03/2019 |
| Parked in NT car park. High point is on ramparts | Ramblingpaul | 28/02/2019 |
| jimbloomer | 24/12/2018 | |
| Stopped for an ice cream on a long hot cycle ride and while I was eating it thought I might as well walk to the top. | AndyS | 01/06/2018 |
| carole engel | 25/02/2018 | |
| Fred Windsor | 15/02/2018 | |
| Watchfield to Faringdon. | Smudge | 29/12/2017 |
| From the NT car park. Did the trig point too. | DanMaisieBex | 20/08/2017 |
| Swindon Bagger | 07/05/2017 | |
| Hill top has 200m diameter ring mound which slopes gently WSW. Inside is beech woods with extensive bluebells a few just in flower but most still leaves. Oak and sycamore on the ring mound, highest point on E side. Good views S through E to NE | RichardM | 30/03/2017 |
| A few hundred easy metres from very busy car park. Sunday walkers in abundance. | Campbell Singer | 26/02/2017 |
| andrew brown | 04/08/2016 | |
| ngthack | 25/07/2016 | |
| As per Adrian | arranc | 07/07/2016 |
| HighwayToFell | 01/06/2016 | |
| From car park. Short walk. Last Oxfordshire Tump. | PeterD | 27/05/2016 |
| Atmospheric evening light filtering down through the ancient beech trees on this large ancient hill fort -which commands extensive views northwards over Oxfordshire. | Chris Pearson | 25/05/2016 |
| Easy walk from the carpark. Highest point on the ramparts to the east. | Herbert Anchovy | 25/11/2015 |
| Gorgeous circular beech wood | vegibagger | 27/10/2015 |
| stevent0809 | 26/10/2013 | |
| Free Nat Trust car park on Highworth to Faringdon road at Badbury Clump. Highest point somewhere around the ramparts of the hill fork - walked all the way around just ot be sure. Very pleasant hill popular with dog walkers. Good tree cover so cool on a very hot day. Good views from ramparts. | Hillsidenick | 16/07/2013 |
| Jacqdaw | 16/07/2013 | |
| Visited looking for the trig pillar, walked all over and round the earth works before realizing it was just back E at the roadside! | jonglew | 28/07/2012 |
| in wooded hill fort area | Adrian | 18/03/2012 |
| asbown | 02/10/2009 | |
| rbayfield | 22/08/2009 | |
| While visiting the trig and hill fort. | rhalstead | 22/04/2007 |
| BrianMatthews | 21/03/2007 | |
| summit on NE edge of hill fort, pleasant view NE. Nat Trust car pk adjacent | RHW | 15/12/2001 |
| NeilMcNeilface | 01/01/1996 |