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Name: | Whitemoor |
Hill number: | 19267 |
Height: | 292.9m / 961ft |
Parent (Ma): | 19290 Hensbarrow Downs |
RHB Section: | 40: Cornwall & Devon |
County/UA: | Cornwall |
Catchment: | Fal |
Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
Grid ref: | SW 97648 57733 |
Summit feature: | grass bank |
Drop: | 61.4m |
Col: | 231.5m SW 9818 5785 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 200 (1:25k) 106 |
Observations: | ground by angle in fence line 350m NE at SW 97934 57933 is 0.9m lower |
Comments: | col in active quarry |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 7 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
aka Dorothy Conveyor Tip. I took the good track up and down past the large circular settling tanks and pumping building seemingly running on automatic. Nice Feb dusk with darkness falling at 6pm. 
Cornwall Council state in their restoration & tipping strategy (March 22) that this tip forms part of the northern edge of the China Clay area (which here stretches S in a 5km long x 2km wide unbroken mosaic of linked active pits and waste tips). This tip is a prominent feature which creates a distinctive skyline with an engineered appearance with angular benches and steep slopes, dwarfing the settlement of Whitemoor. The upper levels are covered with grass and the lower slopes planted with trees although there is a little soil to support their growth, being 80% sand, 20% stent (waste granite rock). Reprofiling of the tip would be beneficial to create shallower slopes and lessen the engineered appearance whilst still retaining its presence as a section of the northern flank. | Chris Pearson | 09/02/2023 |
Parked by quarry entrance in Whitemoor, followed permissive path north then over a gate and up the vegetated hillside. Quite tough ascent until reaching a quarry track and entrance into cattle pasture. Summit a little further beyond. Quarry must quieter this evening but still some action to the east at around 9.45pm. Back down quarry track round open water tanks seeing a fox and a dog climbing out of the water and back over gate. | Adrian | 15/07/2022 |
We followed a non-existant RoW to the NE of the summit and then ascended a series of unmapped steep vegetated banks with wide tracks in between to gain the flat grassy summit field with embanked edges- HP on embankment overlooking huge active quarry. | Denise | 17/11/2018 |
Started out on the (non-existant) field path to the NE to gain the N side of the hill. Up successive tiers of spoil crossing contouring tracks as we went. Spoil initially quite rocky but grit higher up. No problematic vegetation on this one. Large level summit of fenced cattle pasture (mainly gorse and only Deer today) We considered the high point as being the bank on the E edge at SW 97651, 57739 providing a birds eye view of the quarry workings to the SE. | RichardM | 17/11/2018 |
From N, brambly initially. Sand covered in thick layer of moss and grass, plenty heather gorse trees and rhododendron, cattle on top field. Bank 300m to SW same height, by hand level. | RHW | 14/05/2017 |
Roadside parking on Cleers Hill. Permissive path starts at SW97515809, after short distance heading NE ducked under wire and started ascending either 3 or 4 steeply vegetated slopes to a large flat top. HP on a bank to E side of the hill by a fence junction; overlooking extensive quarry workings. Had a wander round the bank arguably nothing else higher. | jonglew | 21/02/2017 |
Matt | 16/04/2022 |