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Name: | The Vale (Heston) |
Hill number: | 5583 |
Height: | 35m / 115ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2874 Wendover Woods [Haddington Hill] |
RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
County/UA: | Greater London |
London Borough: | Hounslow (LB) |
Catchment: | Thames |
Class: | London Borough Top (CoL) |
Grid ref: | TQ 12290 77621 |
Summit feature: | no feature: ground in road |
Drop: | 4m |
Col: | 31m TQ123798 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 176 (1:25k) 161 |
Observations: | very flat area |
Comments: | Small 35m ring contour |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 75 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Walked from Hounslow west underground station and onto Southall station. | colinfielding | 20/03/2024 |
After dropping off my son at the airport. | Andrew Pearson | 27/12/2023 |
From Wimbledon, Merton tops, Putney Heath, King Henry VIII Mound, Heston and Horsenden Hill. Front door styles very diverse in this part of the world but Greenford was depressing. Finished at Perivale. | PhilipChaston | 26/11/2023 |
8 of 17. From Hounslow West station on the Piccadilly line. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 22/07/2023 |
Detour from London LOOP | lerritt | 19/02/2022 |
Done as part of a cycle. Very uneventful. | livvips | 26/05/2020 |
Third London Borough! | pclyndes | 05/05/2020 |
Cycled from Battersea, 42 km round trip. Uninspiring. | Rockdoctor | 19/04/2020 |
Very glad I didn't go unduly out of my for this one (driving nearby so a short detour). Nothing inspiring apart from watching the planes take off from LHR. | jedthehumanoid | 15/07/2019 |
From a found parking spot in a very overparked area, we walked the 50 meters to the road junction. 
We wondered how many of the residents are aware of their significant position. | ChinnockC | 09/06/2019 |
Walked along the road, and into the grounds of the Heston Hyde Hotel, just to be sure. | PGCE | 14/04/2019 |
Final London Borough top. Saved the best to be the last. Got it wrong. Roads of semi detached houses with no soul. | Campbell Singer | 05/08/2018 |
Entire grounds of Heston Hyde Hotel higher than anywhere on Vale Road. Needs resurveying. Vale Road still offers best parking however. | Matt | 08/07/2018 |
A residential street with occasional rise and fall. High point could be anywhere to be honest. Top of the kerb?! | mrs_ts7 | 06/05/2018 |
Dull and gloomy - weather and surroundings. Walked from Hounslow West | Mark Jackson | 20/01/2018 |
Walked from West Hounslow tube and along the Vale. The section of pavement by the creosoted fence on the south side between Meadow Way and Heston Avenue might be marginally the highest bit of flatness. M4 traffic droned. Sleet fell with increasing intensity. Isn't sympathetic background wonderful... | Nick Down1 | 13/12/2017 |
Walked along The Vale - middle of the road seemed highest point. Ground by Motorway bridge in the grounds of the Heston Hyde Hotel seemed higher. | PeterD | 28/09/2017 |
Very exciting. After Windsor Castle. | ngthack | 09/08/2017 |
Only for a bagger. | clivevilla | 26/08/2016 |
Unremarkable. There is no evidence of the contour shown on OS maps. All very flat. Came in via Cranford Lane as The Vale is blocked from North Hyde Lane | Sixtyplus | 20/08/2016 |
1/16 First of sixteen on London Borough Top bagging day (The Vale/Horsenden Hill/Sudbury Hill/Wakemans Hill Avenue/Bushey Hill (Boundary)/Highgate/Highgate Hill/Highwood Hill/Bournwell Hill (Hadley Wood)/Pole Hill/Wanstead Flatts/Marks Gate/Cabin Hill/Havering Atte Bowe Farm/Havering Atte Bowe Church/Potter Street Hill) | Fergalh | 20/08/2016 |
Every day at Heathrow 1,400 flights take off and land – one every 45 seconds which is nearly half a million per year and 
 
 all of them fly low over here as the end of the runway is only 2 miles away and points this way. My brief halt here brought back memories of 1995 spending 3 days in Hounslow, and even closer to Heathrow, packing for an expedition to Pakistan and having to stop talking every 45 seconds as a plane took off drowning out all talk. Only slightly better here. | Chris Pearson | 08/06/2016 |
Called here following a drop-off at Heathrow Airport and a Wetherspoon breakfast in Hounslow. 
As other loggers. Also had a stroll to the motorway bridge and admired the view along the M4. 
Nothing strenuous enough to walk off my breakfast! | Richard Gunn | 03/04/2016 |
Simple walk from Hounslow West tube. Top hard to identify exactly. An unimpressive hill on a day of impressive weather as in the 40 mins I was out I suffered squalls of hail, sleet, rain with distant thunder, pus sunshine, litter on the streets and large planes overhead. | trimarc2 | 02/03/2016 |
TD, C & H by tube and bus. | This Dog | 23/02/2016 |
I think this need to be validated - Hard to believe this is a top of anything. This is a flat road, no distinguishing marks and the most uninteresting spot to bag. Incorporated as part of a 7 miles loop jog from Gillette’s Corner through Osterley Park. At least the jog was good. | bgalon | 20/01/2016 |
6 of 6 LBT's visited today by car. | mcallmar | 24/09/2015 |
Very flat summit: road seems as high as anywhere. | RHW | 15/02/2015 |
Absolutely nothing to commend this hill - except ease of parking. | jonglew | 06/12/2014 |
Tick in the log. Nothing else. | ijpowell | 22/10/2014 |
Detour on way to Newbury. | squeegs | 29/09/2013 |
The commentary already added. Dreadful spot made ok by available parking! Today high point was an old rolled up banana skin, better than dog dirt I guess! Won't be on the repeat list. | nordicstar | 05/02/2013 |
Visited With Darren while trying to visit all the high points on London in one day. | magirob | 10/01/2013 |
I too walked up and down to be on the safe side. Rubbish 'top' and I think the highest point was some dog crap. | simon and co | 03/12/2012 |
Not easy to tell where the highest point is on this very flat road, so walked the whole length of it to be sure. Boring, but at least easy parking | Hillsidenick | 28/07/2012 |
Housing estate... | BazWylie | 08/03/2011 |
Biked from home (Kew) via Horsenden Hill. Along the canal back towards The Vale. No special high point and view as ordinary as any other street the outskirts of London. So nothing special with this. Arrived around 8 pm so dark at this time of the year. | NilsOS | 16/09/2010 |
Could be anywhere - went to the Vale and the Industrial estate, and to both motorway bridge embankments. I feel it should be the latter - I know they're man-made, but so is everything else here! Everything I expected of a London Borough Top and less... | wheresthepath | 21/02/2010 |
One of the more pointless tops! | Overthehilljill | 14/10/2009 |
Parked by M4 overbridge near disused hotel and walked up and down The Vale. All seems much the same height wise. | Nick | 02/09/2009 |
I agree with Gary - this road was virtually flat and there no way you can gain five metres on it. The high point appears to be in an industrial estate at 34 metres, although it's all flat there too so near impossible to pick the highest point. | Richard | 24/05/2009 |
Height at this grid ref can only be 30m as there is no elevation gain from the 30m contour. Agree that the grassy area next to the embankment is higher but does not the 34m spot height win out a mile to the NW | garyhoney | 13/12/2008 |
Could be anywhere. GPS gives it 30m to South in gardens. | destaylor | 02/06/2008 |
The banking to the nearby road bridge over the M4 gives much more elevation. | Smudge | 13/04/2008 |
PaulOnFoot | 16/06/2023 | |
Martin R | 11/11/2022 | |
GordonAdshead | 03/09/2022 | |
FinnTumps | 23/01/2022 | |
johnkenyon | 03/08/2020 | |
bwm | 21/07/2019 |