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Name: | Kings Wood Hill [Chidgley Hill] |
Hill number: | 7796 |
Height: | 292m / 958ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2889 Dunkery Beacon |
RHB Section: | 41: South Central England |
County/UA: | Somerset |
Hill area: | Exmoor |
Catchment: | Minor Rivers only (South) |
Class: | Tump (200-299m), Subhump (Tu,2,sHu) |
Grid ref: | ST 04491 37220 |
Summit feature: | ground by tree |
Drop: | 92m |
Col: | 200m ST046364 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 181 (1:25k) OL9E |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
N.B. Some hill summits are on private property or on land where there is no public right of way. Permission should be sought from the landowner where access to a hill summit is through private land.
Please report via the contact page any logs you see below which describe or encourage acts of trespass. Please quote the hill number and hill name.
Logged Descriptions (logged by 23 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
Same route as PGCE | PeterD | 18/03/2022 |
Parked to NE near start of ROW (narrow layby / wide bit of road). Track around the wood and across field. Returned via ROW as the gamekeeper was about. | PGCE | 12/12/2021 |
From Nettlecombe Court FSC where we were staying. Early morning run, mostly on footpaths. Top hidden among bracken in copse. | Herbert Anchovy | 20/08/2020 |
Treborough to Roadwater along Coleridge Way. Harper's Lane and footpath to and over Woodadvent Lane. Ascent to HP at edge of copse, easily accessible from public footpath. South to Chidgley, along Coleridge Way to Pitt Mill Farm, path to Leighland Chapel, lane and then footpath east and up to Treborough. 7.61miles; 3hrs,10mins | Howards | 01/04/2020 |
Parked on minor road to the East. Walked up through kings Wood on paths then across pature to copse. Small gate into the copse on the NE side. Pasture seemed as high. | fosal29 | 25/07/2019 |
Parked on minor road to NE, up track which bends left round the upside of the wood then across pasture to copse. | clivevilla | 27/03/2019 |
4/8 (Willet Hill/Willet Hill North Top/Elworthy Barrows/Kings Wood Hill(Chidgley Hill)/Ley Hill/Road Hill/Withypool Hill/Bye Commons) | Fergalh | 17/12/2017 |
Parked in layby to E. On N of copse is a gate | Adrian | 21/10/2017 |
From ne, up thru wood. Across field being grazed off by sheep, to summit in copse | RHW | 11/03/2017 |
Parked roadside in Chidgley. RoW and farm track to woods. Reasonably obvious HP. | jonglew | 31/03/2016 |
Parked on B3190 and up footpath from farm, into woods at top of hill via small gate. | Poolton123 | 09/09/2015 |
Walk up as per Andrew. | arranc | 25/03/2015 |
Parked to the north east and followed track south until close to the wood. Then walked all the way round to try and find highest point. Decided that the high spot was in the north of the woods but it could be anywhere. | andrew brown | 14/10/2012 |
Matt | 29/06/2022 | |
mae | 07/09/2020 | |
Alan Whatley | 10/10/2019 | |
Martin R | 28/03/2019 | |
Dusty | 21/11/2018 | |
Steve Q | 03/05/2015 | |
AJ&B | 01/06/2014 | |
DARRENG | 14/10/2012 | |
stevent0809 | 31/12/2011 | |
Sherlock | 22/08/2011 |