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Name: | Clipper Down |
Hill number: | 5387 |
Height: | 249m / 817ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2874 Wendover Woods [Haddington Hill] |
RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
County/UA: | Buckinghamshire |
Catchment: | Thames |
Class: | Hump, Tump (200-299m), Clem (Hu,Tu,2,Cm) |
Grid ref: | SP 96530 15095 |
Summit feature: | ground 6m SSW of trig point |
Drop: | 123m |
Col: | 126m SP939128 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 165 (1:25k) 181 |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 159 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Parked at the edge of the small wood, path through the wood to the trig point. Grass just inside the corner fence post looked like highest point. | LizH | 18/08/2023 |
Paths full of leaves which I enjoyed Kicking. Bagged Trig/High Point | Ivy Jephcote | 29/12/2022 |
Quick bag of Trig/High Point | Iris Jephcote | 29/12/2022 |
From Rough Parking area near Woods which contain trig. Paths full of leaves which Ivy enjoyed Kicking. Quick bag of Trig/High Point | Jephcote83 | 29/12/2022 |
Nice enough location for the pillar though the views are rather lacking from right here. | Alex C | 20/09/2022 |
Ivinghoe Beacon, Clipper Down and Pitstone Hill. With HS and SG. | Mark Jackson | 17/09/2022 |
With OHC friends: Steps Hill car park - Ivinghoe Beacon - Clipper Down - car. | Mark Jackson | 13/11/2021 |
During a circular walk done many times before from Tring station to Ivinghoe Beacon & back via Aldbury. There are lots more waymarked paths around here than marked on the OS maps. On way back from Ivinghoe Beacon, following track to Crawley Wood directly SW of trig. Not worth climbing the slippery chalk bank, negotiating undergrowth & jumping a barbed wire fence into the fields. Instead continue to branch path just past southerly of two fields, follow it to the road, turn L & continue on verge for about 600m. At edge of trees, a neat path leads to the trig. Realised forgotten water bottle, so had to visit the Greyhound at Aldbury. Shame... | NotReallyABagger | 23/09/2021 |
As a detour from the Ridgeway | lerritt | 31/05/2021 |
A week or so too early for the bluebells | jedthehumanoid | 18/04/2021 |
With OHC friends: Pitstone Hill car park - Ivinghoe Beacon - Clipper Down - past Aldbury Nowers - car. | Mark Jackson | 05/04/2021 |
From edge of wood near trig, followed circular path through wood | Jephcote83 | 28/12/2020 |
TD, C & H | This Dog | 18/08/2020 |
Good footpath through the woods to trig. | twg27 | 05/07/2020 |
With Cathy - 25km loop from Tring inc Ivinghoe Beacon. Lovely day out away from lockdown. | Fionalevey | 17/06/2020 |
Easy verge parking to NE by start of path at SP 9659 1526 - Good path through woods to trig point. The masses of bluebells would have been stunning 3 or 4 weeks ago. (S) | gerrybowes | 27/05/2020 |
After Ivinghoe Beacon. Clear path along edge of wood from road. Access to track SW involved negotiating a fence and steep bank but a better way can probably be found. | squeegs | 28/12/2019 |
Short stroll through wood to trig | Bramley | 28/08/2019 |
On a bimble with Suzanne | dc96 | 23/06/2019 |
Out and back from Tring station via Down Farm | Richard | 08/06/2019 |
With CP and BT | garth87 | 12/05/2019 |
28km Loop from Studham in damp but not altogether horrible conditions. | atreides7887 | 03/03/2019 |
Climbed while attending a nearby CITO event | ey up me duck | 28/10/2018 |
2nd of two hills on the 8th and final Stage of the Ridgeway walk with Lesley, having climbed Aldbury Nowers,this was a longer out and back from the trail, near Steps Hill, a permissive path leads to a minor lane that was followed to the woodland then straight through the wood to the Trig with plaque near the corner. Embankment a few metres away is slightly higher next to tree. Quite atmospheric. I took a picture of the sheep all huddled together just over the fence. Ground in field checked but appears lower. Returned to Lesley and we completed the Ridgeway trail but then continued to Cheddington for our honmeward route via Milton Keynes and Birmingham new Street stations to finish at Long Eaton. | Dazingdale | 28/09/2018 |
Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 17/02/2018 |
Trig with NT plaque at the corner of golden- leaved beechwood plantation next to watertanks and sheep pasture. HP may be boundary embankment close by. | Denise | 14/11/2017 |
From the SW over field with group of very dark almost black deer. Dull, damp and uninspiring. | RichardM | 14/11/2017 |
From car park to W. Large track to end of fence, then R, then up through wood and across pasture. Trig with NT plaque at grotty spot in corner of wood. | Aye Jimmy | 12/11/2017 |
Easy walk through the wood, which had very little undergrowth. | JohnW | 01/10/2017 |
W Jenx, Bryher, Mike and Angie. Up from Aldbury on the Icknield way, along past monument and trig and from Clipper Down farm cut across to top, continued to the much better summit of Ivanhoe Beacon with views, back on over Aldbury Nowers to start | nordicstar | 10/07/2017 |
Nice countryside walking. | jenx | 10/07/2017 |
Bagged as YSM178 Clipper Down. 
 
Best time of year to visit this trigging as wood full of bluebells. 
 
Trig in corner of woods beside field with the wee lambs. 
 
Very busy today due to the bluebells and good weather. | thejackrustles | 23/04/2017 |
With mum and dad. Pleasant weather, nice and unfrequented. | Wycombe Wanderer | 26/12/2016 |
After a 1.2 km stroll around Dunstable Downs, decided to do a variant of a favourite walk. Easy to park by Crawley Wood and bagged the Hump, then The Coombe, Gallows Hill, Ivinghoe Beacon, above Incombe Hole, Duncombe Farm and back to the road from Duncombe Terrace. Lovely, clear day.The main variant was walking through the wood to the summit- never thought of visiting it on the at least 5 previous walks past the wood. Exemplary management for access on the downs and the Ashcombe Estate. | pwheeler | 01/10/2016 |
7.00 on a misty morning I encountered a magnificent stag in the Wood. We stared for a while until he leapt the fence and bounded away. Wood is clearly well used, complete with expertly built children's den. Shame the area around the trig needs a bulldozer. | ijpowell | 01/09/2016 |
A shy neighbouring peak(?) to the much worthier but lower Ivinghoe Beacon which I also jogged up and is popular with model aircraft enthusiasts and (a bit higher)with Easyjet flights on their final descent to 'London' Luton. | Chris Pearson | 08/06/2016 |
With K. Access easy. Nice bluebell wood. | Ashley | 20/05/2016 |
Roadside parking to the NE and a clear path through the small area of wood to the trig point. Not sure if this is public but no fences or signs. | Swindon Bagger | 24/03/2016 |
Short walk from road to trig in corner of wood. Shame the good views are back at the beacon. | PeterD | 21/03/2016 |
Easy walk from Ivinghoe Beacon car park | r.ashwell | 07/02/2016 |
An afternoon’s walk with the kids on paths surrounding the area. Trig point easily found. | bgalon | 24/01/2016 |
Trig nestled in SW corner of the woodlands with national trust metal symbol inlaid into the cement of the pillar. | vegibagger | 01/09/2015 |
As part of a walk from Tring Station to Aldbury Nowers, Ivinghoe Beacon and back via Bridgewater Monument | trimarc2 | 30/07/2015 |
Late spring must be the time to visit. The floor of the beech wood is a mass of bluebells. | Newton Maximus | 03/05/2015 |
With Steve | GinaSmith | 02/04/2015 |
Bus from Ivinghoe to Dunstable then 10 mile walk back from Dunstable to Town Farm and camper van over Dunstable Downs, Clipper Down and Ivinghoe Beacon | mntainman | 02/04/2015 |
en passant | summitsup | 08/03/2015 |
4/10 Very clear walk through forest to trig pillar just beside the Ivanhoe ridge | Fergalh | 07/03/2015 |
Easy to get to in woodland near to roads trig point at top with plaque . | Haygalzer | 19/10/2014 |
I enjoyed the anonymity of this one. | Chris Peart | 06/08/2014 |