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Name:Toat Hill
Hill number:18620
Height:66m / 217ft
Parent (Ma):2916  Chanctonbury Ring [Chanctonbury Hill]
RHB Section:42: South-East England & the Isle of Wight
County/UA:West Sussex
Catchment:Arun
Class:Tump (0-99m)
(Tu,0)
Grid ref:TQ 04986 21587
Summit feature:ground at base of tower
Drop:40m
Col:26m  TQ057210  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 197
(1:25k) OL34 134
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 20 users)ByDate of Ascent
Friendly and generous couple at Toat House readily gave me the key. I couldn't get the key to work so was kindly driven up for a second visit. Interesting tower with a heavy hatch at the top. Please ask for permission, it would be a pity to make the owners antipathetic by sneaking up.Martin R19/03/2023
Parked just outside the gate of Toat House and collected the key. An interesting trip.DC11main15/05/2022
From east on ROW, then field boundaries.PGCE29/11/2020
Pulborough CircularPhilipChaston09/08/2020
As others, got key from Toat House (one of a surprising number of dwellings in the area). Up by plank, fence, gates, down via farm gate and farm track- but you can just ask when you get the key. Excellent views enhanced by being able to access tower in which thousands of Harlequin Ladybirds (boo!) were hibernating. When I got the key, I was asked where I got the information. I was able to reassure that it was from a fairly obscure website of no real interest to general ramblers!! Civil and pleasant altogether- we are now considered a specialised interest group by the estate!pwheeler18/04/2019
With: solo; From E on ROW up to summit. Didn't have the key so couldn't climb the tower.Ian Baines14/08/2018
Key easily obtained from Toat house ( not Lodge, beforehand) and we followed the obvious path up to the monument. The tower has 4 storeys joined by wooden ladders and 6 sides. At the top is a heavy trap door which gives access to an open, castellated top. There were great views unfortunately , under leaden skies. The high point is on grassy ground surrounding the base of the tower, possibly levelled to build the tower. The tower is within a fence. There is a cut mark on the tower side and stone plaque above the door: Samuel Drinkald 1823, apparently the son of the then owner of Toat House but the specific reason is not obvious .Denise 18/01/2018
Collected key for tower and permission to visit from friendly owner at Toat House (TQ 0463 2193) Gated route through fields on NW side. Great panoramic view from top of tower. Cut mark on SW face.RichardM18/01/2018
5hr circuit from Pulborough station: Park Mound, Fittleworth Common, Hesworth Common, Bedham Hill, Toat Hill, BroomershillMark Jackson29/08/2017
From minor road to E, on RoW initialy then across muddy paddocks and through numerous electric fences. Monument at HP, key available at Toat House if one wishes to climb to the top.jonglew15/03/2016
From ENE under a lot of electric fences. Tower at summit a bonus trig, intersected stationRHW23/01/2016
ROW from the east passing playful goats with a donkey joining in their game of chase. In another field were Shetland Ponies not doing much. A notice on the locked door of the summit tower invites visitors to collect a key from Toat House if they want to climb to the tower top. Probably no need for my awkward 'commando' approach crawling under two electric fences. Long views to the north from such a small hill. In 2013 the Cowdry Hunt met at the summit monument for refreshments but according to their webpage 'Mr Whitmore’s Landrover had failed to make the gradient in difficult conditions, so the vittals were transported in the old-fashioned manner. Such considerable effort was all the more appreciated by a field of 30, who on the whole had encountered fewer problems reaching the top. That they might get down again after such generosity was a different matter…'Chris Pearson04/03/2015
Pulborough circular.Smudge09/11/2014
daveyf200122/03/2022
Matt12/12/2020
andrew brown26/05/2020
GordonAdshead28/05/2018
arjh27/10/2017
trimarc224/10/2017
stevent080908/07/2017
Adrian14/04/2010