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| Name: | Holt Down |
| Hill number: | 18943 |
| Height: | 204m / 669ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2909 Butser Hill |
| RHB Section: | 42: South-East England & the Isle of Wight |
| County/UA: | Hampshire |
| Catchment: | Minor Rivers only (South) |
| Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
| Grid ref: | SU727186 (est) |
| Summit feature: | no feature |
| Drop: | 36m |
| Col: | 168m SU729192  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 197 (1:25k) OL8 120 |
| Observations: | flat summit area |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 53 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| On day six South Downs Way | nickywood1 | 02/10/2023 |
| Walk w/Devon. War Down, Butser Hill, Holt Down loop from Buriton. | ZacField | 05/07/2023 |
| Completed as part of a 10 mile 4 hill circuit. No view, vague summit. | fnem | 03/12/2022 |
| Day 2 on the South Downs Way | fosal29 | 15/11/2022 |
| The SDW is now signed over this hill rather than in the valley between this and War Down. Made for Pt 204 and wandered around but all pretty flat. Nice woods though. | milimana | 11/06/2022 |
| From carpark to NW. Again top very uncertain. | GordonAdshead | 15/08/2021 |
| 4 Tump circuit from Burton church: War Down, Holt Down, Head Down, Oakham Hill. | PGCE | 03/11/2020 |
| Detour from SDW | lerritt | 20/08/2020 |
| Parked in the visitor centre car park. Nice new barriers since my last visit and some building work on the centre underway. War Down and Holt Down completed. Sunshine and clouds with a couple of light showers. | Buck | 11/08/2019 |
| War Down and Holt Down along the marked routes from the visitor centre car park. Fabulous woodlands. | summitter | 12/06/2019 |
| Second on a round of War Down, Holt Down, Head Down, Oakham Hill and West Harting Down,from Halls Hill car park. Pleasant walk on paths (marked for equestrians) in deep valley SE of War Down, then up by Stanton Way. HP in woodland off tracks, little ground vegetation so easy to reach. | pwheeler | 25/04/2019 |
| Lovely clear and crisp day, no wind and fantasic thin snowy conditions on the groud, everything looking lovey. Part of a 6 tump, 1 marylin loop. | atreides7887 | 03/02/2019 |
| Parked at Queen Elizabeth Country Park to bag Butser Hill, War Down, Holt Down | mazz | 13/01/2019 |
| level summit with HP determined by Abney within misty dripping beech. Myriad of paths | Denise | 20/01/2018 |
| Short deviation from the Staunton Way into open beech woods with a few brambles. Large essentially level summit. Calm, mist, dripping trees. | RichardM | 20/01/2018 |
| A 20 mile circular walk linking 12 Tumps (all repeats) with Lesley and Betty the dog . 3000ft of ascent. | Chris Pearson | 17/09/2017 |
| 16 miles in greyness and sleet: Petersfield - Butser Hill - Holt Down - War Down - Head Down - Oakham Hill - West Harting Down - Torberry Hill - Petersfield. Just off the path in the forest. | Mark Jackson | 11/02/2017 |
| From Halls Hill car park, a round of War Down, Holt Down, Head Down, Oakham Hill and West Harting Down. | rhalstead | 28/01/2017 |
| From the Faggs Farm CP, an easy diversion from the Staunton Way. | DanMaisieBex | 06/11/2016 |
| steep jog up Gravel hill, after completing two circuits for Park run. do i effectively ran up Gravel hill 3 times! Nuts. | Shutterlag | 16/07/2016 |
| mountain bike from War Down and then onto Head Down. Easy but it is important to keep checking the map as there are trails going in every direction. | trimarc2 | 30/06/2016 |
| Walk from Harting | ejjohnstone | 22/01/2016 |
| From NE, paths and cross country. Would have combined with its two neighbours but didn't notice it until back at car | RHW | 30/08/2015 |
| Parked in QECP and did round of War Down, Head Down and Holt Down. Wandered around till satisfied had stood on HP. | PeterD | 12/08/2015 |
| approached from the East, sharp incline. Woodland summit. | Adrian | 17/05/2015 |
| After War Down - a detour into open woodland to the flat highest point / area, from the path which led down to edge of noisy A3. A good long day out with Lesley and Betty | Chris Pearson | 03/05/2015 |
| Parked in Kiln Lane car park for pleasant walk on good RoW paths to within 130m of HP, then break out into mixed woodland (predominantly beech) for a partial clearing at the high point. Limited views through trees, won't be any when in leaf. | jonglew | 07/04/2015 |
| Bagged from the car park at Halls Hill, Kiln Lane, Buriton.The summit area was flat and I wasn't sure where the actual summit was so I stomped around a bit until I was happy. | Sprog | 31/12/2014 |
| West Marden to Petersfield. | Smudge | 18/07/2014 |
| BrianMatthews | 08/03/2024 | |
| PaulOnFoot | 30/12/2023 | |
| SteveG | 09/11/2022 | |
| The Maise | 09/11/2022 | |
| Kendall | 02/10/2022 | |
| DC11main | 18/09/2022 | |
| TedCymru | 22/07/2022 | |
| daveyf2001 | 21/01/2021 | |
| Matt | 24/10/2020 | |
| PhilipChaston | 23/08/2020 | |
| doddy | 15/01/2020 | |
| dickiewren | 09/08/2018 | |
| andrew brown | 30/01/2018 | |
| clique | 27/12/2017 | |
| stevent0809 | 21/11/2015 | |
| Ronald | 01/11/2015 | |
| RocksRock | 06/08/2015 | |
| Sainesy | 01/12/2014 | |
| jonhorrocks | 29/08/2014 | |
| pwatson1980 | 18/08/2014 | |
| kaizerlard | 23/10/2008 |