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| Name: | Wittenham Clumps |
| Hill number: | 18555 |
| Height: | 123.4m / 405ft |
| 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 56652 92732 |
| Summit feature: | ground by fence |
| Drop: | 69m |
| Col: | 54m SU538895  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 164 174 (1:25k) 170E |
| Observations: | Castle Hill 400m SE at SU 56920 92461 is 1m lower |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 73 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Delightful - make use of all the benches to enjoy some lovely views. | Meanderer | 27/09/2023 |
| From Earth Trust free Sindon Hills car park on S. side, up to excellent viewpoint via mown path, HP, returned by going round Castle Hill, impressive deep earthworks of hill fort. Deservedly popular on a sunny Friday afternoon. | pwheeler | 07/07/2023 |
| A drive around the Newbury-Oxford area. Hoar Hill; Bussock Hill; Snelsmore East Common; Grimsbury Castle; Warren Hill; Blewburton Hill; Wittenham Clumps. | Mark Jackson | 29/04/2023 |
| From Earth Trust car park, self guided walk leaflet taking in both hills. | CreakingHiker | 26/07/2021 |
| Short walk up from the car park. Great views for such a relatively low hill. | clivevilla | 12/05/2021 |
| From car park. Summit and Castle Hill. | PGCE | 21/09/2020 |
| From free Earth Trust carpark to south, straightforward ascent up muddy grass to enclosed woodland with gate. HP indistinct but within these open trees. View better outside enclose to N. Adjacent hill has the poem tree- signboard to N. Cool overcast and drizzling. | Denise | 09/03/2020 |
| From the Earth Trust car park, muddy path over grass to NW hill top copse then back via Castle Hill and site of the Poem Tree. Grey afternoon and sadly no views. | RichardM | 09/03/2020 |
| Train to Oxford then the X38 to Dorchester and through route to Shillingford via both tops, recording the same height for both. Visited the bowl barrow and nearby trig pillar after Castle Hill. Lovely tops with magnificent views. Caught the X39 for Newnham Courtenay and Windmill hill... | Dazingdale | 27/07/2019 |
| Both hills from car park to S. Wittenham Clump's gate into summit area open; Castle Hill's gate locked but easily overcome. Mobility scooter drove up Wittenham! | Aye Jimmy | 29/03/2019 |
| From Dorchester with Lizzy and Alice (first hill, aged 3 months 2 days). | rlee5040 | 05/01/2019 |
| Midday, 6 degrees, sunny, hazy, from church. | Wycombe Wanderer | 24/12/2018 |
| Glad, having half circumnavigated the perimeter deer fence, and being preposterous, reluctantly, to scale it, that I logged on to read that there are two gates, one of which I found a further 100metres on. Glorious day with lots of families up there as its half term. | vegibagger | 22/10/2018 |
| Made an hour's walk of it by starting from Dorchester and back via Day's Lock bridge over the Thames ( or Isis as it is locally called upstream of this point) The bridge used to host the World Poo Sticks Chamionships, ( featured in Visit Britain for quirkiness). Timeteam dug below the Clumps but failed to find additional evidence of Iron Age burials or a roman villa as half expected. Web claims 200,000 people a year climb up here ( very close car park helps). Lots of families today, with kids failing to make a kite fly and fighting with sticks while a Dad played with a drone. | Chris Pearson | 15/08/2018 |
| Circular walk with CP, BP, DP, Louise and Mark Godden | garth87 | 29/05/2018 |
| Obviously popular - quite a few people about on a Tuesday PM. Very pleasant from car park to south with good views except for power station of course. | Mark Sims | 27/03/2018 |
| Parked in Dorchester on Thames. Cold but sunny day. Fantastic views of Oxfordshire. | Pollyanna | 11/02/2018 |
| Popular spot and rightly so. Lovely to just walk about on well trodden paths as well as bagging the accessible top. | ijpowell | 09/09/2017 |
| The summit copse is surrounded by a quite high fence but there are two gates and a sign saying only not to enter in high winds. I'd wanted to visit after seeing the Paul Nash exhibition at Tate Britain, he painted this hill many times. | Swindon Bagger | 10/08/2017 |
| Car park then Wittenham Clumps followed by Castle Hill then continued to bag the trig on Brightwell Barrow. | Dugswell2 | 08/08/2017 |
| Up from Day's Lock, went over to Castle Hill too. Nice that these two hills have their own collective name, the Sinodun Hills. | DanMaisieBex | 09/04/2017 |
| Did both hills. Suddenly very windy. Access to Wittenham Clump summit is well protected with a high fence but there are two gates giving access. | Campbell Singer | 26/02/2017 |
| Easy walk up from car park. Nice hill. | arranc | 04/10/2016 |
| Climbed both hills (also apparently known as Mother Dunch's Buttocks!) with my wife & daughter from the free car park to the south. Can't believe we've never been here before. Glorious views considering the low height, a really lovely place. Bit of a honeypot though! | wheresthepath | 09/08/2016 |
| As part of bike ride from Goring to Didcot via Ridgeway and 3 tops. Good viewpoint | trimarc2 | 01/06/2016 |
| Up from the car park, down to Church Meadow, back up through the woods to Castle Hill and back to the car park. The first hill with my 2 year old twins! | jamesaskew | 29/05/2016 |
| My first hill, aged 2 years 10 months; with Xander, Mama + Papa. | Zebby | 29/05/2016 |
| My first hill, aged 2 years 10 months; with Zebby, Mama + Papa. | Xander | 29/05/2016 |
| From car park up to clump and through gate to HP. | PeterD | 30/04/2016 |
| Short detour on way to visiting family. Affords nice views across Oxfordshire | Ramblingpaul | 26/12/2015 |
| Great little hill from car Park: Heading South to complete two counties tht have just acquired new points. | GordonAdshead | 30/09/2015 |
| Nice views, very blowy. | Fred Windsor | 31/03/2015 |
| Didcot to Cholsey. Odd that access to Castle Hill summit enclosure with mapped ROWs through the enclosure is barred although very straightforward to the higher, northern one without the ROW/access land designation. The HP for Castle Hill may be outside the enclosure anyway. | Smudge | 10/01/2015 |
| From Appleford, pleasant but muddy walk bagging a few trig pillars also. Clear HP in fenced off area at top of hill. | jonglew | 09/12/2014 |
| My local hill, climbed it many times. Summit of Round Hill located by Abney. Gates to Castle Hill now padlocked (used to be open) but easily climbed. Needs level & staff survey to determine which peak is higher. | Galltywenallt | 15/11/2014 |
| By far best of the six Oxford area TuMPs we bagged today. Good free car park to south. Access area thanks to Earth Trust, with good paths. Did both hills, Round Hill is the highest. Gate in summit fence allows access to the highest point in the copse. Excellent views of flooded Thames Valley to north. Views to west dominated by Didcot Power Station. | Hillsidenick | 23/01/2014 |
| From Dorchester, looped back via Shillingford and the Thames Path. | rhalstead | 26/05/2013 |
| didbothhills, lovely. views over the Thames too. | Adrian | 27/02/2011 |
| Exact Date unknown | Sidath16 | 01/06/2008 |
| Detour from Thames Path between Wallingford and Abingdon | rjf35 | 25/10/2003 |
| Came here a few times when i lived and worked in Oxon and did a bit of work for the farm in my FWAG days. Visited both clumps. The clumps and the surrounding estate once belonged to the explorer and author, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, writer of The Worst Journey in the World which is possibly the best travel book ever. | Herbert Anchovy | 01/06/2002 |
| pasture; summit a strongly fenced clump of trees. adjacent car park on minor rd to SW, FP to summit enclosure | RHW | 08/06/2000 |
| Ascent date unknown. | ngthack | 01/06/2000 |
| Walked up here on occasion when living in nearby Didcot. | Stretchy | 01/01/2000 |
| NS told me today 22/04/2018 that there is a photo of me standing at the top of this hill in May or June 1990. I don't remember a thing about it. | Owen B | 15/05/1990 |
| estimated | AndyS | 01/01/1985 |
| SteveG | 19/02/2024 | |
| mk5375 | 03/02/2024 | |
| Halfdecent | 18/11/2023 | |
| davefh | 09/10/2022 |