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Name: | Black Hill |
Hill number: | 7774 |
Height: | 584m / 1916ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2877 High Willhays |
RHB Section: | 40: Cornwall & Devon |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Dartmoor |
County/UA: | Devon |
Catchment: | Dart, Catchment Boundaries, Tamar |
Watershed: | Plymouth Sound |
Class: | Subdodd (s5) |
Grid ref: | SX 60408 84616 |
Summit feature: | small cairn |
Drop: | 23m |
Col: | 561m SX608857 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 191 (1:25k) OL28N |
Observations: | flat summit area |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 47 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
From Cut Hill using tracks where possible. Onto Hangingstone Hill and back to Fernworthy reservoir on a tough 6 hour circuit. | PeterD | 17/08/2023 |
From Cut Hill, tussocks/tracks, more of same back E to W end of Fernworthy Resr. Rain started just before I got back to forest road. My last doable hills on hill-bagging in SW England unless I get to any more islands | RHW | 18/04/2022 |
From Okehampton - Belstone Tor, East Mill Tor, Steeperton Tor, Hound Tor, Hangingstone Hill, Black Hill, Cut Hill, Brown's House Top, Higher White Tor and Longaford Tor. Camped near the top of Longaford Tor before descending to Princetown from where I added South Hessary Tor while waiting for the bus. 41.5km, much of it boggy, tussocky, pathless toil in unrelenting rain and wind. Highlight was getting the tent up, changing into dry clothes and crawling into my sleeping bag. | Herbert Anchovy | 07/08/2021 |
A walk into the wild centre of North Dartmoor from Fernworthy Reservoir, through the forest and out to the ruin of Teignhead Head Farm. Then across the wet tussocky moors visiting Hangingstone Hill, Black Hill, Cut Hill and via path by boundary posts to Sittaford Tor. Extremely tough going in many places underfoot – wet and tussocky. 19km with 480m ascent in 5 hours. Solo. | silveracorn_alan | 01/08/2021 |
park fernworthy forest near big shed 6606 8368 tracks to 6565 8210 then White Ridge flat top nw to Sittaford tor then initially pathless west then use range marking post paths to Cut Hill with small marker cairn but flat top so visit highest hags pathless to Black Hill, NE to tracks to Hanginstone Hill, tracks to Steeperton Tor return via Wild Tor, Watern Tor, Teignhead farm and plantation tracks 26 ks 8 hrs | underhill | 09/07/2021 |
One way from Postbridge to Cudliptown, from Hangingstone Hill via Cranmere Pool Letterbox. Sat at the cairn having lunch with a motionless frog for company, and contemplated having just over half of the day's 30k ahead of me still. | agentmancuso | 01/07/2021 |
Visited on a circular walk to Cranmere Pool. Solo. | meltdiceburg | 16/04/2021 |
With Jo, from Fernworthy Reservoir: through Forest, past Teignhead Farm to Black Hill, then on past Quintin’s Man to Sittaford Tor and back through Forest. Weather; generally sunny, hot, good visibility. Cool breeze later in day. | amblerbob | 14/09/2020 |
Solo 14 miles round from Postbridge of Browns House Top, Cut Hill, Black Hill, Sittaford Tor, White Ridge and Assycombe Hill. Perfect weather and a 6.30am start. Just under six hours. | clivevilla | 23/06/2020 |
2-day route from Belstone, with outstanding bright conditions on day 1. Cosdon Hill, Hound Tor, Steeperton Tor, Hangingstone Hill (also visiting Whitehorse Hill summit), crossing to Cut Hill, then Black Hill(camping by the top). Return via Belstone Tor (climbing all the tops in the summit area). | RobertP | 30/12/2019 |
From East Okement Farm, on good tracks for most of the way, and marsh and tussock grass for the last mile and a half. On to Cut Hill. | Nick Down1 | 14/07/2019 |
From Cut Hill, picking up Sittaford Tor next on a 19km yomp across a very dry but hot Dartmoor. | jonglew | 27/06/2018 |
Dreadful boggy, path less walk south from Hangingstone Hill to the south top, Whitehorse Hill (601m) then across the bog due west up to the summit. Route not recommended! Small tidy cairn. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 10/06/2017 |
From Post gate. Brown's House Top,Cut Hill, BlackBlack Hill, Sittaford Tor, White Ridge. | ijpowell | 20/04/2017 |
Oke Tor - Hangingstone Hill - Black Hill - Cut Hill -Black Hill from GR: SX 60091 91134 | ronaldo333 | 09/03/2017 |
Combined with a visit to Cranmere Pool (as in Wild Walks) a long way from anywhere where we found postcards left in the letterbox only yesterday to post on to Austria and Germany. A long circular walk on a glorious hot day with Lesley and Flook the dog bounding around in the long grass and occasional green slime swamp. Long walk from cottage near Chagford. Mostly crunchy dry bogs but still sections of frustrating deep grass and tussocks. I was last close to here on the 2012 OMM in rain trying in vain to move quickly through the deep grass and tussocks on Long Score. | Chris Pearson | 14/08/2016 |
From Cut Hill to this top. Not too bad underfoot but it was dry. East towards Hangingstone is rough for a few hundred yards before picking up a track to Hangingstone Hill. Solo. | bolton | 17/10/2015 |
4/8 Fourth of long day Assycombe Hill/White Ridge/Sittaford Tor/Black Hill/Cut Hill/Browns House Top/Upper White Tor/Beardown Tor/ | Fergalh | 25/07/2015 |
Did this on way from Hangingstone Hill to Cut Hill – Very tough going! There is small cairn on the top, but with so many lumps around, couldn’t be sure this is the actual summit. (S) | gerrybowes | 14/03/2015 |
Climbed after Whitehorse Hill on second Dartmoor round. True summit difficult to distinguish. | Wheelsy | 01/08/2013 |
With: hb; From overnight camp by Bleak Ho crossed Amicombe Hill then Great Kneedet and Peat Pass onto Black Hill. Then turned S down to Cut Hill. | Ian Baines | 08/09/2012 |
With: ib; | Helen Baines | 08/09/2012 |
From Okehampton, part of 3 day backpack. Rain and showers all day. Very boggy and difficult to find paths. | LauraGuy | 22/07/2011 |
From Cut Hill on route to Hangingstone Hill. | Anton | 16/08/2008 |
Meldon to Bellever via Yes Tor, Cranmere Pool, Cut Hill and Higher White Tor. Awful weather in a bleak place made for testing going. | Jake994 | 29/07/2006 |
DofE Gold Practice with group. Meldon Res. to Postbridge via Yes Tor (619), High Wilhays (618), Dinger Tor(550), Cranmere Pool (360). Black Hill (584), Camped below black hill. Cut Hill (604), Very hard going. Persistant rain with hale and snow. | PGT1975 | 19/11/1999 |
on a circuit to Cranmere Pool from Postbridge | prwild | 29/08/1998 |
RobB | 16/08/2023 | |
jamesaitken42 | 03/10/2022 | |
Andy West | 14/05/2022 | |
robmurray | 31/01/2022 | |
Matt | 15/07/2021 | |
stevent0809 | 20/08/2017 | |
Lesley Atchison | 14/08/2016 | |
Glenford | 05/09/2015 | |
pwithnall | 29/11/2014 | |
maytwin66 | 11/09/2012 | |
KatieJayne | 01/03/2012 | |
moorsman | 16/07/2011 | |
benstacey | 25/12/2009 | |
Flatfield | 18/11/2005 | |
MM | 03/08/2005 | |
andrew.allum | 01/01/2000 | |
Ozymandias | 06/04/1996 | |
David Purchase | 22/05/1988 | |
RichardM | 24/05/1980 | |
PeterKirkwood | 01/01/1950 |