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Name: | Selworthy Beacon |
Hill number: | 2893 |
Height: | 308m / 1010ft |
RHB Section: | 41: South Central England |
County/UA: | Somerset |
Hill area: | Exmoor |
Catchment: | Minor Rivers only (South) |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Tump (300-399m), Clem (Ma,Hu,Tu,3,Cm) |
Grid ref: | SS 91888 47994 |
Summit feature: | ground 2m NNE of trig point |
Drop: | 193m |
Col: | 115m SS935459 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 181 (1:25k) OL9E |
Observations: | large cairn 5m W of trig point may hide higher ground; ground 50m E is 1m lower |
Survey: | obvious summit |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 429 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
From cp at culver cliff wood, along rugged coast walk then back along the top. Very windy and a fair bit of rain. Very wet under foot, but a lovely walk. 11km in 2 hrs 30. | Nicky C | 02/01/2024 |
Coast path walk up from Minehead and back with Shirl. Very clear panoramic view of Wales and Dunkery from the beacon. | Valerie | 06/11/2023 |
On Coast Path circular from Bratton Ball to Hurlstone Point and back. | rfoster | 23/10/2023 |
With Jon. Easy | tallblond | 27/09/2023 |
Big loop of Bossington Hill, Selworthy Beacon & North Hill from Horner | Clifford | 26/08/2023 |
Exmoor's 3 Marilyns. Parked in the long stay car park in Porlock (£5.50 all day card/cash). Out to Porlock's shingle beach ridge, along to the very end of the beach to fp ascending to SWCP, Bossington Hill, Selworthy Beacon (hazy views across to South Wales), Periton Hill, Dunkery Beacon and back via the small church at Stoke Pero. Good to see the complete conifer clearance and new broadleaf replanting by the NT in Doverhay Coombe - although it looks a little spartan now, give it 5 years or so to get going. Rain finally arrived on the approach to Dunkery Beacon along with the low cloud so no views. With Gillian. | richard69 | 27/07/2023 |
Circular 10 mile walk from Porlock via Coast Path to Hurleston Point then up steep coastal path past Point to ridge, then English Coast Path to summit. Off via Selworthy, West Luccombe, Horner, Porlock. | JulieB | 01/03/2023 |
From Porlock via ridge from Harlstone Point. | KeithByTheC | 01/03/2023 |
Easy walk from roadside parking. The only dryish hill today before rain set in. | cjo | 31/12/2022 |
Mountain biked to summit as part of circuit from Porlock Weir. | southern_rambler | 14/10/2022 |
part of a walk along SW coast path lovelt sunny march day | iannotts | 14/03/2022 |
Spent the night in Minehead. Drove most of the way up first thing in the morning. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 10/01/2022 |
New Year’s Day walk in Exmoor. Good views and plenty of nice easy paths to follow. Parked in Selworthy with plenty of space. | JazDisney | 01/01/2022 |
Walk from Allerford via Selworthy, then down to Bossington. | ascapola | 12/09/2021 |
On walk from Selworthy to Minehead | climbingkershaw | 11/09/2021 |
Parked in camper van at end of road for the night. 2.5 miler circular walk to the summit. Marilyn no. 52 | The-Z-Man | 29/08/2021 |
Easy stroll up the track from the south east. Land Rover parked on the summit. | isabelle | 28/08/2021 |
Circular walk from Bossington to Bratton Ball, out via rugged coast path / North Hill, return over Selworthy Beacon, descent via Lynch Combe. | deknyff | 22/07/2021 |
Circular walk from Selworthy Church, up over Bury Castle to Selworthy Beacon, then E along the coast path to North Hill, then W along the other, more coastal variant of the coast path, detouring via the ridge descent to Hutlestone Point and back via Allerford. Lovely 11 mile circuit on a glorious day. | Clive G | 05/06/2021 |
From CP at road end | Crib Goch | 27/05/2021 |
Family gathering | paulhilder | 02/05/2021 |
Parked at the church and walked up through the woods past the monument and up to the summit. Nice views and relaxing walk up. | Stevooo | 23/04/2021 |
Our first excursion out of Gloucestershire post the winter lockdown. A beautiful, sunny spring day, so lovely to see the sea again, even if it was very windy on the front. Walked up from Minehead RNLI, initially on the SWCP before stopping to visit the very overgrown round barrows to the east of the summit, a trial of heather and gorse-hopping. The summit itself is lovely, with a modern cairn and terrific views across to Dunkery Beacon. We carried on to Bossington Hill to visit the Bronze Age cairn, then looped back SE to visit the unexpectedly good Bury Castle hillfort. Dropped down through nice woods to Selworthy Coombe, then back up along the bridleway to the ridge. Paralleled the rather busy road eastwards, then down through Moor Wood back to the town. A terrific day trip. | thesweetcheat | 23/04/2021 |
Minehead - Selworthy Beacon - Knowle Top - Dunkery Beacon - Periton Hill - Minehead. | Mark Jackson | 10/04/2021 |
from church in selworthy | richardrosser | 08/12/2020 |
SW Coast Path return route | ejjohnstone | 22/10/2020 |
Failed to bag this one when on the SWCP so eight years later a quick dash up (in the rain) from the Memorial Hut. | Newton Maximus | 23/09/2020 |
Would love to have walked from Selworthy but had my young daughter & partner with me so decided to stay in the good books & drive closer to the summit. Nice drive brought me to roadside parking approx 400m from trig. Easy walk up kept everyone happy and we all enjoyed the views. Result! :-) | Gerry the Ranger | 05/07/2020 |
2/5 From NT car park at Selworthy, up through forest and down through Coombe after visiting memorial hut. Not raining but windy. | Rounsfell | 28/06/2020 |
Walked fro St. Michael's Church in Minehead via wood to Eastern CP, then with K did circuit oh ridge via Selworthy Beacon. | IanHHill | 06/10/2019 |
Last one of a long day. Couldn't be bothered to drive all the way around from Knowle Top so i parked in Selworthy and walked from there. It was about 3 miles up & back. | fosal29 | 19/09/2019 |
bagged while trekking the South West Coastal path with Eoin. Good panoramic view from impressive cairn. | Pete West | 11/09/2019 |
Part of South West Coast Path | whiskybottle | 08/06/2019 |
From Minehead via SW CP; loop back via Hurlestone. | o.gilman | 27/05/2019 |
From high Moor road to south, near memorial. Wild cold wind. Vaguely familiar, suspect been to summit before on childhood holidays to Minehead, Marilyn 3/7 | N.Morters | 27/04/2019 |
Drove and parked to within 400m of summit. | NormanW | 10/02/2019 |
Drove up and parked at corner, 924479. Short dash to summit in fading light. Impressive lights all around. | iangalbraith | 06/01/2019 |
A DAMP DAY BUT DECIDED TO ROUND OFF THE EXMOOR MARILYNS. NIPPED UP AND BACK DUNKERY BEACON FROM THE NEAREST CAR PARK IN WIND AND DRIZZLE. DID THE SAME WITH PERITON HILL FROM WOOTTON COURTENAY IN THE DRY - USED GPS TO FIND THE TOP IN THE FOREST. FINISHED ON SELWORTHY BEACON FROM NEAREST POINT ON ROAD. GOOD VIEWS. | BURGESS | 06/12/2018 |
6/6 Marilyn Day in the SW. Short walk from the road in the fading light. Now a long drive back to the caravan at Malvern. | silveracorn_alan | 01/11/2018 |
With Chris on circular walk from Minehead, out via the rugged coast path and back via the inland on. Short diversion to Seaworthy Beacon. | re1421 | 20/10/2018 |
With Katy from road on bike ride. Very Clear. | George Thompson | 26/09/2018 |
4.75 mile circular walk from one of the car parks along Hill Road. Walked along the inland stretch of the south west coast path. | unicornvader | 24/09/2018 |
Along path from road to the east. | Winterfloodian | 17/09/2018 |
Ascended Selworthy Beacon from Porlock. | hillbagger91 | 24/08/2018 |
4 mile circular walk from North Hill. With Anna | citygent | 15/08/2018 |
Almost a drive up. Views across and up Bristol Channel. | Topographer57 | 08/08/2018 |
Carefully navigated the back streets of Minehead to get onto Hill Road and continued to the viewpoint CP at the end of the road. Unfortunately misty conditions so retraced our steps 500m to a pull-in opposite the Memorial Hut. After visiting the hut, followed easy stone track NE for 500m to trig point. With Sue and 6 month Border Collie, Meg. | Dartmoorman | 23/07/2018 |
On arrival day at HF holidays | Ham and Skate | 21/07/2018 |
Run during 'Beacon to Beach' recce. Parked near the beacon, and ran down to Minehead. | bentimmo | 27/06/2018 |
MC. | Martin66 | 19/06/2018 |