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Name:Bathford Hill
Hill number:5396
Height:205m / 673ft
Parent (Ma):2869  Cleeve Hill
RHB Section:39: Central and Eastern England
County/UA:Wiltshire
Catchment:Avon (Bristol)
Class:Hump, Tump (200-299m), Clem
(Hu,Tu,2,Cm)
Grid ref:ST 79471 66066
Summit feature:ground within 2m of tower (Brown's folly)
Drop:101m
Col:104m  ST868710  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 172
(1:25k) 155
Observations:LIDAR suggests possibly slightly higher ground in woodland 35-70m north
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 289 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all)ByDate of Ascent
HighwayToFell22/10/2023
From Bathford, pleasant walk with good views and a follytrimarc216/08/2023
More great views over Bath plus the follyTrantham Clan19/02/2023
DC11main21/01/2023
Tom Mundell29/10/2022
Chose this one as a diversion on the way home from Bristol airport. Folly was open - not brave enough to climb the staircase.Buck24/07/2022
Andy West05/02/2022
Bath station - Lyncombe Hill - Bathampton Down - Bathford Hill - Little Solsbury Hill - Bath.Mark Jackson29/01/2022
sturuss31/12/2021
Morning run via Kingsdown and Monkton F.Herbert Anchovy06/10/2021
With Mog and her friends plus Xan. 14th birthday outing around the mines.Herbert Anchovy26/09/2021
Herbert Anchovy23/09/2021
Herbert Anchovy21/09/2021
Easy up and back from the CP. Surprisingly access to the staircase in the folly but without a handrail it was beyond my risk threshold to venture up.Newton Maximus17/09/2021
Afternoon walk with Meg and Xan including some bouldering near Sally in the Woods.Herbert Anchovy03/09/2021
Herbert Anchovy29/06/2021
Evening walk with M and X.Herbert Anchovy26/06/2021
Herbert Anchovy24/06/2021
Helped rescue a dog lost among thick brambles. Pity I was wearing shorts.Herbert Anchovy23/06/2021
Tricky17/06/2021
Herbert Anchovy16/06/2021
Herbert Anchovy10/06/2021
Herbert Anchovy08/06/2021
Herbert Anchovy07/06/2021
Car park to NE at ST 7978 6639 - Despite the heavy rain, an enjoyable walk on one of the many paths up through a well-managed ancient woodland to Browne's Folly. Carefully climbed the 67 steps of the folly's open staircase & took even greater care coming down! (S)gerrybowes13/05/2021
Herbert Anchovy06/05/2021
Xan’s birthday party. Into the mines at Shakespeare’s then the stables, amphitheatre, Clapham, southern stables etc exiting through Muddy Hole. Cooked sausages by the big tree and then home via the folly.Herbert Anchovy25/04/2021
Morning walk in the sunshine.Herbert Anchovy20/04/2021
Tony J10/04/2021
Herbert Anchovy25/03/2021
Herbert Anchovy22/03/2021
Herbert Anchovy16/03/2021
Herbert Anchovy15/03/2021
Afternoon walk with the Evans family. Children went up folly and then lots of rope swinging.Herbert Anchovy14/03/2021
abbo000109/03/2021
Sunday pm walk with M and X. To Sally in the Woods. Saw 5 bats in the caves there. Home via folly. Loads of recent felling to clear moribund trees with ash dieback so they don’t fall on people. I quite like the new look but terrible to think of the devastation to this common species.Herbert Anchovy07/03/2021
Ran up to Kingsdown, paths to Monkton Farleigh and home through woods via folly.Herbert Anchovy06/03/2021
With M and X.Herbert Anchovy26/02/2021
With M and X - needed to take some photos of M 'extreme reading'. Took one of her reading a book while suspended upside down from a branch by a length of rope and another of her reading Dracula to a pair of horseshoe bats in Muddy Hole.Herbert Anchovy31/01/2021
Slopping about on muddy paths with M and X.Herbert Anchovy22/01/2021
Walk in the dark with M and X. Up to the folly and muddy walk through Hobhouse wood to Camp. Back down the road.Herbert Anchovy06/01/2021
with M and X. Up to the folly. Muddy walk (since the tree felling) from folly to muddy hole. Through the mines and out Shakespeare's. Few lesser horseshoes in muddy hole and elsewhere. Vincent Van Goat's ear was looking a bit better.Herbert Anchovy02/01/2021
Run up to Kingsdown, cross country to Monkton Farleigh and then home through the woods via the folly.Herbert Anchovy07/12/2020
Afternoon walk with M and X. Big lump of rock fallen into gully below metal door. One of the kid goats seems to have had an ear torn off, presumably by a dog. Nasty looking wound although it looked happy enough. Went down to the yew council and back after a walk around Hobhouse. Very muddy everywhere.Herbert Anchovy28/11/2020
Nice early morning weather. Discovered a large lump of rock fallen off the side of a gully.Herbert Anchovy20/11/2020
Morning walk. Goat kids in a pen in the corral.Herbert Anchovy13/11/2020
Morning walk. Misty but warm.Herbert Anchovy09/11/2020
Morning walk including Hobhouse Wood.Herbert Anchovy23/10/2020
Same again. Goats back, looking picturesque on top of one of the outcrops.Herbert Anchovy20/10/2020
Another morning walk after Meg left for school.Herbert Anchovy19/10/2020