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| Name: | Blow's Down |
| Hill number: | 19206 |
| Height: | 212m / 696ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2874 Wendover Woods [Haddington Hill] |
| RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
| County/UA: | Central Bedfordshire |
| Catchment: | Thames |
| Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
| Grid ref: | TL 03447 21404 |
| Summit feature: | no feature |
| Drop: | 48m |
| Col: | 164m TL030208  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 166 (1:25k) 193 |
| Survey: | Abney level |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 58 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| As others, plenty of street parking at end of Half Moon Road TL029214. Enter Blow's Down SSSI at end if Street turning right on worn path for summit. Surprisingly good aerobic work out on steep(ish) for me one month into rehab after 4 months off. Large flat summit ares, gave it a good old wandering heading for presumed hps. | mntainman | 01/03/2024 |
| HighwayToFell | 28/10/2023 | |
| From Half Moon Lane before walking to Tring on Icknield/Ridgeway | burwellian | 09/06/2023 |
| SteveG | 13/01/2023 | |
| The Maise | 13/01/2023 | |
| Martin R | 17/03/2022 | |
| davefh | 19/01/2022 | |
| Post Houghton Hall parkrun jaunt with GFE. Lovely little hill. Met Riz afterwards for coffee at Dunstable Downs NT. | Fionalevey | 09/10/2021 |
| Matt | 06/06/2021 | |
| FinnTumps | 16/04/2021 | |
| From Caddington. Public footpath north to Badgerdell Wood. Nuthatch spotted. Cut through the new Chaul End housing estate. Permissive path around west then north side of golf course. Then north of Stanner's Wood and Skimpot Wood, then direct to the unmarked flat top. Then south east on public footpaths past Dame Ellen's Wood, Castlecroft Wood, Cradle Spinney then across to Folly Lane. Beautiful sunny day but with a cold, dry northerly, the chalky ground was largely bone dry. | Owen B | 05/04/2021 |
| Walked up this popular hill from Half Moon La. Lots of cheery dog-walkers. Interesting very urban view included buses going along the busway, reminded me of Scalextric! | pwheeler | 27/08/2020 |
| TD, C & H | This Dog | 18/08/2020 |
| johnkenyon | 14/03/2020 | |
| MKGees | 29/02/2020 | |
| From Half Moon Lane. Nice evening stroll. | PGCE | 27/02/2020 |
| williamglew | 08/02/2020 | |
| Stroll up from Half Moon Crescent. Flat top so wandered about a bit. | maclrc | 11/01/2020 |
| arjh | 08/01/2020 | |
| Fine hill, shame about hideous new retail and warehousing development. | Wycombe Wanderer | 21/12/2019 |
| From Half Moon Lane - nice top | Bramley | 28/08/2019 |
| 3 of 6 on 26 mile bike ride. Onto trail from half moon lane. Pleasant area with good views | The-Z-Man | 31/07/2019 |
| Still sunny for my walk up from Half Moon Lane. | Dugswell2 | 25/02/2019 |
| 1st of 4 Hills today and this an 11 mile walk from Dunstable to Leighton Buzzard. I was hung-over from being nourished with Wine at my Airbnb in Luton so overshot the Jean's Way stop so had to walk back (after stopping at a local establishnent for R&R ie breakfast) then easy walk up via footpaths to explore the vague grassy top. Nice view of the Two trees in the cereal field to the East. Descent Sw and then through the urban strees of Downside heading for Dunstable Downs... | Dazingdale | 13/01/2019 |
| Nice little hill and bullocks. From end of Half Moon Lane. | Andrew Pearson | 24/12/2018 |
| Up from parking at end of Half Moon Lane-nicer than expected | Mark Sims | 04/10/2018 |
| Swindon Bagger | 12/06/2018 | |
| Dunstable guided bus (Jeans Way stop) - Blow's Down - Warden Hill - Telegraph Hill - Great Offley bus stop. | Mark Jackson | 07/05/2018 |
| BrianMatthews | 06/02/2018 | |
| Leagrave to Luton. | Smudge | 01/01/2018 |
| Ample parking at the end of Half Moon Lane. Straight up. | Campbell Singer | 22/11/2017 |
| Indistinct flat rough grass top, close to town and much used by dogwalkers and apparently humans for many years. Nearby area to South covered by contour of similar height in ploughed field looked lower. Parked in residential streets to N and followed footpath up under buzzing electrical supply cables.Larks singing but murky views. | Denise | 15/11/2017 |
| Park in Dunstable and ascent of blunt grassy ridge, access land. Overcast but cloud lifted from summit. | RichardM | 15/11/2017 |
| From end of Oakwood Avenue as PeterD. Highest point vague, in field of long grass and no flowers... | Aye Jimmy | 12/11/2017 |
| GaryJones | 28/10/2017 | |
| As for PeterD. | arranc | 14/10/2017 |
| Colin Crawford | 06/08/2017 | |
| Easy up from Half Moon lane | nordicstar | 11/07/2017 |
| mart0797 | 26/06/2017 | |
| KC | 04/05/2017 | |
| From estate to west. | rhalstead | 23/04/2017 |
| From end of Half Moon Lane | Fred Windsor | 04/04/2017 |
| DC11main | 18/03/2017 | |
| geoffreycurnock | 18/02/2017 | |
| stevent0809 | 28/01/2017 | |
| David S | 30/12/2016 | |
| From end of Oakwood Avenue where there is space for 2 cars.Path leads straight to top. HP just off the path to SE. Re-completion of UA. | PeterD | 03/11/2016 |
| Same route as others from Half Moon Lane. Train to Luton, Then bus route 31 to Dunstable. Found a better way back to Luton Station using much faster buses on guided busway. | trimarc2 | 07/10/2016 |
| With Wendy. Same route as others. My satnav puts OS high point just off path very near to a solitary tall bramble. | ijpowell | 02/09/2016 |
| From W as per Gordon. Hp seems just S of path but rather level. Field to S does indeed look lower, will leave it it unless surveyed equal or higher as is local to me. Sunny Fri eve enroute to the Alps. Central Beds re completed | RHW | 05/08/2016 |