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| Name: | Great Wood Hill |
| Hill number: | 18532 |
| Height: | 136m / 446ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2906 Walbury Hill |
| RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
| County/UA: | Wiltshire |
| Catchment: | Avon (Bristol) |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
| Grid ref: | SU026816 (est) |
| Drop: | 42m |
| Col: | 94m SU026810  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 173 (1:25k) 169 |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
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.
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 20 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Goatacre to Tockenham Corner. | Smudge | 12/12/2021 |
| Evening ascent from S. Initially on ROW, which seems to end in paddock below riding arena and summit paddock. Over slightly overgrown fence, then around arena and up to summit. Thought nobody was about, but heard noise from stable block so scuttled back out of sight. Very horsey area. | PGCE | 25/05/2021 |
| Parked at the end of the driveway to the SW. It worked OK but may not another day. First I reached a gate where three girls were tending various animals on their smallholding. They gave me permission to proceed but the top is protected by solid wooden gates. They were open but nobody was about so I went through the gate to the trig. | clivevilla | 17/11/2020 |
| Isambald Kingdom Brunel ( a great name) sliced a piece out of the southern foot of this hill when he engineered the building of Great Weterrn’s London to Bristol main railway line in 1841. So precisely level was his route it was referred to as Brunel’s billiard table. The far faster speed of the railway ( current fastest time is 1hr18 mins for the 102 miles from London to Bristol) saw the death knell of the far slower Wilts and Berks canal which also squeezed through the southern col of the hill, I climbed up on row from NE via Gove Farm who seem to have a got an odd tin chapel in a field doubling up as barn? For any 1980 Chamonix climbers the name of Snell’s farm and field(s) at the NW foot of the hill, will raise many memories of tall tales. | Chris Pearson | 17/03/2019 |
| Approached from ROW to the north. | Campbell Singer | 11/12/2018 |
| Approached from Great Wood (not to be recommended) | PeterD | 28/10/2018 |
| No cap... Definitely become GOML status. Track grom SSW by railway bridge has private no access, trespassers will be prosecuted sign. Went up anyway. Menagerie of geese ducks hens goats and horses half way up. More forlorn looking horses on left near top in totally churned up field devoid of grass. Photographing pillar fit strolled up from field, without saying 'hello' or 'can I help you '... Simply 'You do know this is private. There are signs at the bottom song no access' 'I've come to inspect the pillar' 'Oh yeah, for who? ' 'The pillars need inspecting occasionally' He sounded Welsh and was bolshy and unfriendly so I walked away down the hill. Job done. | vegibagger | 29/03/2018 |
| A circuitous route from Trow Lane Farm via ROW and Great Wood. | Chris Peart | 12/10/2017 |
| This is horseycultural country divided up into paddocks with unnattractive fences all around. Walked up from the farm and then an awkward climb over a bramble covered fence. The top is within a paddock next to a busy stable - did a quick raid on it when no one was looking. | Herbert Anchovy | 02/07/2015 |
| Bagged whilst doing the trig. Parking at Trow Lane Farm, start off on a PROW across rly line, then over rough pastures and a couple of fences to hill summit which has been developed into a paddock with stable buildings. | jonglew | 16/10/2012 |
| field and farm | arranc | 23/07/2009 |
| RHW | 13/12/2005 | |
| Martin R | 09/10/2022 | |
| Glenford | 11/01/2022 | |
| DC11main | 18/07/2021 | |
| RichardM | 20/04/2017 | |
| Steve Q | 02/04/2017 | |
| andrew brown | 06/03/2017 | |
| stevent0809 | 26/03/2016 | |
| Swindon Bagger | 06/06/2015 | |
| Adrian | 20/03/2011 |